Example sentences of "this [is] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This 's the Three-Moon Festival or maybe the Ceremony of the Inner Spiral , I ferget . |
| 2 | The amount of the annual covenant payment is specified in the Deed , and this is the sum that is payable each year . |
| 3 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 4 | This is the system used by Sothebys : |
| 5 | This is the occasion when a reader can visit the same show and make a personal assessment of how helpful the art critic has been . |
| 6 | Perhaps this is the more important in the late twentieth century now that this means of image-making is so familiar that some people actually imagine that a photograph shows the world as it is . |
| 7 | Since then , he has written , among other things , The Mimic Men : while relatively unsuccessful , this is the novel which most resembles Guerrillas , and it undoubtedly ‘ diminishes ’ the politics of emergent countries by raising doubts about the character of their independence and the motives of their leaders . |
| 8 | This is the mid-Sixties , and homosexuals are being released from the closet by a law enacted by Parliament late in the novel . |
| 9 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 10 | This is the queen who was greeted , on a visit to a Scottish university , by the sight of a student emptying down his throat , at top speed , the contents of a bottle of alcohol . |
| 11 | This is the time you have worked towards , when you will be working on the ‘ showcase ’ productions which will provide opportunities for you to be seen publicly . |
| 12 | This is the first big lesson to learn . |
| 13 | This is the arrangement in Holland whereby various institutions such as media , schools , cultural organizations , welfare services , and hospitals are duplicated , and run by the separate catholic and protestant communities . |
| 14 | Related to this is the final principal belief element , the conviction of the legitimacy of force in maintaining the subordination of catholic nationalists within the statelet . |
| 15 | Indeed , this is the most significant aspect of the role of religion in the divisions and conflicts in Ireland and goes to the heart of the matter . |
| 16 | This is the moment and that is all . |
| 17 | It must be a measure of my confidence , he wrote , that I can now say , in these notes , without any kind of trepidation , that this is the major project of my life , that beside it the rest pales into insignificance , if it was not insignificant anyway , beside it or anything else . |
| 18 | This is the main reason why I have not until recently felt able to face the task of transcribing them and editing them in the way they . |
| 19 | A striking example of this is the list description for The Blue Bell in Fossgate , the last perfectly-surviving Victorian pub interior in York and one of only two pubs left in the city of truly national importance . |
| 20 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
| 21 | This is the only hope for the conservation of pubs from a period with planning ideas so remote from our own . |
| 22 | This is the challenge for the brewers and their designers — to survive in the long term they must , in certain instances , address this radically broadened target market . |
| 23 | This is the start of the heavy banqueting season , leading up to Christmas , which should be a busy period for a lot of hotel restaurants . |
| 24 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 25 | This is the most difficult part of my story for me to tell . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , this is the real world , ’ I said out loud — too loud actually ; someone gave me a funny look . |
| 27 | This is the absolute minimum , and whenever possible much more room should be left , or an alternative landing area should be chosen . |
| 28 | If , by then , it is obvious that there is plenty of room to turn back into wind and land , this is the sensible thing to do . |
| 29 | ( Usually this is the pilot 's fault for holding the glider down too much during the initial climb , or failing to get right up into the normal angle of climb . ) |
| 30 | Where this is the case , the full opposite rudder may not even appear to change the spin , and the spin will continue until the movement forward is sufficient . |