Example sentences of "[prep] this [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the thing is , the interesting thing about this is of course is what we 're actually dealing with is not erm well in a sense er not , not erm your actual preference , which according to the erm theory is unchangeable . |
| 2 | It is said by the appellant … that International Law has firmly fixed that a locus such as this is beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty ; and that consequently it is not to be thought that in such a place the legislature could seek to affect any but the King 's subjects . |
| 3 | The client gets help for day-to-day problems , but the price he pays for this is to be the landlord 's follower , to do his bidding and accept his view of the world . |
| 4 | Part of the reason for this is to be found in the constraints imposed by agencies outside the classroom . |
| 5 | The main reason is that most common polymers do not mix with one another to form homogeneous , one phase solutions or blends , and an explanation for this is to be found in the thermodynamics of solutions which have been outlined in the previous sections . |
| 6 | The reason why males die more readily than females do is attributable to the effects of testosterone and the only cure for this is to be castrated , and the earlier you are castrated the lo if you 're a male , the longer your life expectancy will become compared with , compared with females . |
| 7 | Precedent for this is to be found in Campra 's petits motets rather than in his stage music . |
| 8 | The most common position for this is on the last lexical word ( e.g. noun , adjective , verb , adverb as distinct from the function words introduced in Chapter 12 , p. 102 ) of the tone-unit . |
| 9 | Responsibility for this is with the government of the country , the main decisions being taken by the Cabinet and put into effect by the various government departments and a range of quasi-autonomous bodies . |
| 10 | The best position for this is at an angle of 45° facing south , but this will be dictated by the pitch of your roof and if the ridge runs north/ south , site the collector on the east side to get the benefit of the early morning sun . |
| 11 | The estimated cost for this is at least £3,000 . |
| 12 | ‘ The place for this is in the British Museum for all the public to see . ’ |
| 13 | None of this is for the faint-hearted . |
| 14 | The extreme condition of this is for someone to tell me that they loved me — few ever did — or to thank me . |
| 15 | The idea of this is for all the people to pull on the rope as hard as possible . |
| 16 | An extension of this is for one field ( the emit field ) to hold a short literal value which can be gated ( under control of another field ) to any of a number of destination registers . |
| 17 | All of this is for economic reasons . |
| 18 | Most of this is for the purchase of private houses but they also lend on commercial property . |
| 19 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 20 | All of this is at odds with a left perspective on the " capitalist state " . |
| 21 | The result is that we 've received over 3,000 hours of new work , and most of this is on priority jobs . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most interesting example of this is on the Burroughs B6700 , illustrated in Figure 2.10 . |
| 23 | One example of this is on page 156 when Scout and Jem have discovered that Atticus is sitting outside the county Jail on one of his office chairs and as they cross the square to get nearer to him , four dusty cars come in from the Meridian highway , moving slowly in a line eventually stopping outside the Jail . |
| 24 | One way to think of this is as a type of economies of joint production . |
| 25 | Now erm , most of this is about er , repeat projects rather than new , original ones . |
| 26 | All of this is with the avowed intent of improving his company 's products . |
| 27 | The physical mark of this is to be seen in the indentation between the upper lip and the nose . |
| 28 | Eloquent testimony of this is to be found in John Gay 's magnificent photographs of London terminals , depicting , for instance , the forest of columns , arches , and metallic tracery supporting the roof of Liverpool Street Station and the perfect form and line of Brunel 's ‘ all interior , all roofed-in ’ Paddington , achievements that could leave only the most die-hard curmudgeon unmoved . |
| 29 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 30 | An example of this is to be seen in a developing educational programme . |