Example sentences of "[conj] this [be] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council will also have to keep the curriculum under review and promote change where this is felt to be necessary . |
| 2 | On occasions where this is felt to be a risk , preventive apologies may be issued in the form of prolonged negotiations to meet again soon . |
| 3 | Although this is thought to be long overdue by some of my colleagues , will there be a backlash at some point ? |
| 4 | Although this is claimed to be standard practice , Labour denounced the move last night as ‘ the most serious breach yet of the Tories ’ general election promises ’ . |
| 5 | For the first 10 months of this year , it totalled £362 million , although this is expected to be wiped out by outflows this month and last month . |
| 6 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 7 | Henson has done a lovely job of placing his famous characters in the novel 's context while never letting us forget that this is meant to be a huge extravaganza . |
| 8 | ‘ That is not to say that this is going to be all fun , ’ she hastily added . |
| 9 | I ca n't seem to have have yet heard definitely that this is going to be . |
| 10 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 11 | But , erm , that this is gon na be happening and you ought to have an input . |
| 12 | More instances that this are required to be certain that the possible parts of speech of the word are found . |
| 13 | Yet all the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise . |
| 14 | Suppose you knew that this was going to be the last day of your life . |
| 15 | In readiness for the event I made all the arrangements I possibly could before the baby was born to make my return to work as smooth as possible , including hiring a nanny , and I thought that this was going to be easy … |
| 16 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 17 | She swore to herself that this was going to be the last child . |
| 18 | And as soon as I cradled the mass in my arms the conviction flooded through me that this was going to be the same as all the others . |
| 19 | Undecided , she had wondered if it might be too formal , but now she realised that this was going to be no jeans-and-sweater occasion . |
| 20 | And I , I , I , I , I , I would not have endeavoured to persuade you that this was going to be the land reform document that was , that this is it . |
| 21 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ The assistant chief constable of Merseyside said that this was going to be the greatest fraud trial since Poulson . |
| 23 | It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth . |
| 24 | Hindus know the cosmic energy as the kundalini or serpent force , and this is said to be coiled around the base of the spine in every human being . |
| 25 | Quicklime slaked in urine and laid on the wood while hot , will also stain it a red colour ; and this is said to be the general practice with Windsor chair manufacturers in the neighbourhood of London ’ . |
| 26 | Recently a remedy was introduced that can be added to the pond water and this is proving to be successful . |
| 27 | And this is reputed to be the mightiest in Britain . |
| 28 | Since 1945 conversion rates have fallen to a lower level , of about 15,000 — 17,000 ha , and this is considered to be the direct result of stricter planning controls . |
| 29 | Most modern text-writers state it with some slight , hesitant reservation ( and this is thought to be the correct view ) . |
| 30 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |