Example sentences of "this [noun] be [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 The focus of this chapter is on the government side of the equations .
32 Although we shall return to unit costs briefly , the main focus of this chapter is on the use ( and abuse ) of demographic and related data , which feature in population estimates and in the derivation of specific deprivation indicators and of estimates of risk groups or client populations .
33 While our discussion in this chapter is of the doctrine of neutrality as such , Rawls ' treatment of it will serve to illustrate the problems involved .
34 This chapter is about the way in which the existing predicament of teachers leads them to become stressed , and it is also about whether stress is inevitable in such circumstances or not .
35 This chapter is about the significance of such a concatenation of development activity , and of the potential for links between them .
36 This chapter is about the possibilities for creating learning environments which encourage children to work and learn collaboratively .
37 This chapter is about the way one part of the brain communicates with a different part of the brain .
38 This chapter is about the extent of government involvement in the economy .
39 This vote was of the utmost significance .
40 An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital .
41 This drawing is among the 700 or so exhibits , many never seen before in the West , in the exhibition ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ , at the Schirn Kunsthalle until 10 May .
42 All the tone controls on this preamp are of the active variety , which offer a more discernible tonal colouring than their passive cousins .
43 This irony is at the heart of the British Museum 's witty and challenging exhibition , ‘ Fake ?
44 & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs
45 This plan is from the 1901 revision .
46 James 's sentences in this passage are on the average much shorter than those of Conrad ( 35 words per sentence ) .
47 If the Transfer Regulations do not apply , but it is the transfer of a business as a going concern , the position is governed by the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 ( although a discussion of this Act is outside the scope of this book ) .
48 This question is for the railway specialists , but is also included because quizzes are a way to learn odd railway titbits .
49 We feel that , for an Englishman , to ask this question is at the same time to answer it .
50 This is the main issue of principle which I have to decide , and is one on which the defendants side with the plaintiffs against the submission on the part of the Bank of England that the answer to this question is in the affirmative .
51 This work is for the people , ’ he said , ‘ so they must pay for it .
52 Clearly some of this work was beyond the scope of the youngest children , nevertheless the reception class joined in wherever possible and their teacher attended all staff meetings and discussions .
53 The overriding emphasis in all this work was on the ‘ network ’ , which in silicates was found to be made of regular chains or layers of SiO4 molecules sharing common oxygens .
54 The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life .
55 This attitude is behind the policy of skimping on women and children which has kept the family allowance or child benefit frozen ( its real value has fallen by 18% in the last ten years ) .
56 And the means by which agents in the legal field can obtain this stake is through the accumulation of symbolic-legal capital , mostly in the form of institutional positions .
57 A lengthy discussion of this issue is beyond the scope of this work but given its importance in relation to the socialist project I shall make some comments .
58 This issue is beyond the scope of this book and the interested reader is referred to papers by Studdert-Kennedy and Shankweiler ( 1970 ) , Shankweiler ( 1971 ) , Blumstein ( 1974 ) , Cutting ( 1974 ) , Darwin ( 1974 ) , Liberman ( 1974 ) , Berlin and MacNeill ( 1976 ) and Berlin ( 1977 ) .
59 This issue was at the heart of the Report of the Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance ( Cmnd 6453 ) published in 1976 .
60 This girl 's from the Land of the Twin Rivers . ’
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