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

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1 Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb .
2 It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession .
3 The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending .
4 Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein .
5 The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area .
6 To date , three cases have been through this process .
7 Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway .
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