Example sentences of "this [be] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schemes like this are part of the £23 billion |
| 2 | I am on medication for high blood pressure ; could this be part of the problem ? |
| 3 | Oh would this be sort of formal would the p other person be dressed in sort of black clothes or Aha . |
| 4 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 5 | Not even the horrendous edit at track 3 , 3′10″ can detract from the splendours of a disc that completely overturns any ideas one might have had of this being Bruckner at his most jejune . |
| 6 | East Anglia and the South-West also grew , by 110,000 and 189,000 respectively , some of this being overspill from their megalopolitan neighbour . |
| 7 | This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . |
| 8 | I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils . |
| 9 | There is yet another area of intellectual activity that is supported by reading , and this is speculation of the ‘ what if … ? ’ kind , found in science fiction ( SF ) . |
| 10 | His idea wo n't work , says Beowulf , for the pressure on heroes to take blood-revenge is too strong — it seems , though this is speculation from other sources , that Ingeld 's father Fróda was killed by the Danish king who now wants to make alliance with his son . |
| 11 | Therefore this is evidence for the view that whereas certain volatiles such as the inert gases were acquired during accretion , others such as carbon and nitrogen ( and hydrogen ) were acquired subsequently . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the relative dispersion of the unemployment percentages ( as measured by the coefficient of variation ) was lower in 1985 than in 1975 : this is evidence of a narrowing of the differentials between the regions , possibly a result of recent regional economic policy initiatives . |
| 13 | This is evidence of continuing support from the family in weathering the changes . |
| 14 | This is evidence of both extreme and young source enrichments in U and Th relative to Pb ( ref. 7 ) . |
| 15 | This is evidence against there being two types of crust on Venus . |
| 16 | This is back of the stage . |
| 17 | This is support to which the family might seem peculiarly suited , since it is concerned with personal anxieties and fears , the realm of the intimate . |
| 18 | it is rather difficult to know whether this is support for Krashen 's proposal or not , but it certainly implies the separation of the process of meaning construction from the determination of final output form . |
| 19 | So I thought , this is money for old rope , you know . |
| 20 | The prosecution claims this is money from the post office robbery . |
| 21 | This is settlement by contra . |
| 22 | Coming from the face-fungus-clad Mr Bushell , this is bit like Grace And Favour 's Mr Humphries complaining that Frank Bruno is a bit of a weed . |
| 23 | An example of this is tuberculosis of the lung ( pulmonary TB ) . |
| 24 | As sure as I have tusks , this is ontology on the hoof . |
| 25 | This is suspect for precisely the same reasons we considered when discussing option two . |
| 26 | On the other hand , this is anathema to many accountants , particularly those involved in business , because they are used to seeing a single set of financial statements . |
| 27 | An example of this is variation between low and mid-front realizations of /a/ before velar consonants in words of the type rag , pack , bang , which show only slight differences in terms of age and sex within inner-city Belfast . |
| 28 | This is poetry to , for , and about the Friend , and the Poet is merely vox . |
| 29 | However , this is water under the bridge . |
| 30 | This is radicalism at its most aristocratic . |