Example sentences of "is [conj] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between this and the two previous outcomes is that under this procedure the agency does not have to go through the whole decision-making process again . |
| 2 | The honest answer to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton ( Mr. Cohen ) is that under this Government there will never be a balance between exports and imports . |
| 3 | For the most part , the evidence from corporate officials who have been sanctioned is that for this type of crime , criminalization and stigmatization are not fearful consequences likely to occur . |
| 4 | What I wish to propose is that for this poor and hungry population many of the physiological symptoms of which they complain are also symptoms of chronic hunger . |
| 5 | What they do not say is that on this ‘ best ’ measure , police performance has in fact improved marginally , not declined ( from 7.9 in 1972 to 9.6 in 1986 . ) |
| 6 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 7 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 8 | What is less widely known is that at this moment two P-38 Lightnings , ( distinctive , long-range US fighters ) appeared , their star insignia clearly visible , and although it may have been coincidence even to the sophisticated in a crowd of some hundreds of thousands it must indeed have appeared that the mandate of heaven had assumed its newest form . |
| 9 | The Christian experience is that in this life , as the Bible puts it , ‘ we have no continuing city ’ , no permanence of abode . |
| 10 | The likelihood is that in this as in other matters Beowulf is meant to appear a good prophet , since the unsuccessful , possibly treacherous , but in heroic terms entirely praiseworthy attack which Ingeld made on his father-in-law is repeatedly mentioned in Northern story . |
| 11 | A related reason for the failure is that in this century , as far as armed combat is concerned , the record of the laws of war has been distinctly uneven . |
| 12 | The strong probability is that in this , his latest revise of his view of society , Owen continued to place master-manufacturers among the productive and industrious . |
| 13 | The upshot of this is that in this sense of " power " as of many like terms-it is at least arguable not only that a cause has a power to produce its effect , but also that an effect has a power to produce its cause . |
| 14 | No perceptible direct line connects Edward 's law with Wyclif 's radicalism , but what can be asserted is that in this matter — as in so many others — Wyclif was not breaking new ground but appealing to ideas already long current in certain circles . |
| 15 | What we have tried to show here is that in this respect linguistic behaviour conforms to the same principles as the other patterns of social behaviour that have been studied by anthropologists . |
| 16 | The serious problem is that in this key area of the debate about ageing so much is speculative . |
| 17 | He has to watch his step very carefully vis-à-vis the Russians but my guess is that in this instance they went too far . |
| 18 | The point that is being made is that in this situation none of the profit figures are a guide to the future . |
| 19 | One of the great advantages of such journeys is that from this moment someone else solves all practical problems . |
| 20 | All the sudden excitement in the US among AT&T Co , MCI Communications Corp and Sprint Corp about toll-free 800 number business is that from this weekend , the numbers become portable so that subscribers can change from a carrier they do n't like to one that might appeal more , without changing the number . |
| 21 | In the court case of June 1790 , Henry Cecil was awarded £1000 damages and a divorce , but what makes the whole story so remarkable is that by this time he was already secretly remarried . |
| 22 | FACT THREE is that by this time next week umpteen other life-changing events will have shaken the respectable residents of the comfy Melbourne cul-de-sac . |
| 23 | There are eight other recordings of the Barber Piano Sonata in the catalogue , but to my mind the most thrilling and satisfying is that by this artist , who created the work in 1949 : his quicksilver delicacy in the scherzo is unsurpassed , and the dazzling virtuosity of the fugal finale makes one want to stand and cheer . |
| 24 | It is because at this time the warning light is more easily visible in the twilight than in the daylight . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is because of this that an alternative method of picking was developed . |
| 26 | It is because of this that DD unemployment is sometimes referred to as Keynesian unemployment . |
| 27 | It is because of this historical dimension to the religion that those arguing ( for example ) for the ordination of women apparently find it so difficult to say , in the way in which it has been possible to maintain in the sphere of politics , that we hold these truths to be self-evident , that all human beings are created equal and must not be discriminated against . |
| 28 | It is because of this essentially conceptual and guiding role that agency art people are usually called ‘ art directors ’ . |
| 29 | It is because of this that they can play the role ascribed to them in this form of empiricism ; beliefs about our present sensory states can be our basis — can stand on their own two feet and support the rest — because they are infallible . |
| 30 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |