Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 8 ) Estates , interests and charges in or over land which are not legal estates are in this Act referred to as " equitable interests , " and powers which by this Act are to operate only in equity are in this Act referred to as " equitable powers " . |
| 2 | There is no choice here , all the Fanatics in a unit must be released as soon as enemy are within this distance . |
| 3 | Leapor 's poem has its origin in conversation so that literary creativity and friendship are in this case , as in many of her poems , inseparable . |
| 4 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 5 | Altogether Höll 's weight and authority are as impressive as any pianist 's in this work . |
| 6 | ‘ The Mercy Seat is about this person in solitary confinement , becoming more sensitive to inanimate objects , and as he sits thinking about human and Divine Justice , finding himself judging these things as Good or Evil . ’ |
| 7 | And you can imagine the conrod in your car is about this size . |
| 8 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 9 | But Det Chief Supt Barry Stewart , head of Northumbria CID , said : ‘ We are treating the incident as a crime but I would not like to say what the nature of the crime is at this stage . ’ |
| 10 | The CBI has recently pointed out how important inward investment is to this country , and pointed to the success of this Government in attracting it — a success not assisted by some in the Labour movement , who call it ’ alien ’ . |
| 11 | Althusser is emphatic that the means of production are just as essential to the fashioning of theoretical products as to something like shoemaking , which plainly requires leather , tools , etc. , and he points out that the Marxist concept of labour is in this sense irreducibly material . |
| 12 | Here the ‘ glory ’ is presumably the stage between long gone youth and death as the poet is at this point on his ‘ deathbed ’ . |
| 13 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 14 | If the player repeats a note when the hammer is in this mode , he will have the unpleasant sensation of catching the hammer at an unpredictable point between the hammer rest and the string . |
| 15 | The natural place to mount a small drawing is on this centre . |
| 16 | The freeboard , when the boat was under this load , was not to be less than 16in amidships and 22. ½ at bow ends . |
| 17 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 18 | The compact was on this occasion approved by 4,633 votes ( 59.8 per cent ) to 2,988 ( 38.6 per cent ) but , as on previous occasions , the level of approval fell short of the 75 per cent necessary to amend the Constitution as required by the terms of the compact . |
| 19 | For what would the universe be without this concentration of moral and intellectual power in the metropolis ? |
| 20 | In 1954 , 31 per cent of those officially classified as in work were in this category . |
| 21 | So on his next few field trips to Mexico he searched this area properly to find out just what the range is for this species . |
| 22 | and you think he is the person from best able to say whose work is in this brochure ? |
| 23 | The Gallagher jurisdiction rule is uncertain ; the refusal of the Court of Appeal to relist B's appeal combined with its refusal to certify prevented B from resolving the uncertainty or ascertaining what English law is on this matter . |
| 24 | Although Nourse LJ does not categorically state what the law is in this situation , his decision indicates and points towards the view that the defendants may be able to escape the restrictions of the sale agreement where it would be inequitable to allow the plaintiff to rely on the strict wording . |
| 25 | To prove that any efficient tableau is in this list , we will show that any pair of efficient tableaux can be connected by a sequence of linked tableaux . |
| 26 | Erm it 's also the case that , particularly when abuse is of this sort of y'know like I was just describing y'know stroking , caressing , all that kind of things um it a lot of erm in some cases very confused feelings on the part of the people who 've been abused . |
| 27 | The majority of the County Council 's in this country borrow money . |
| 28 | No no I we 're not saying that at all , that 's a different proposition entirely er certainly the County Council is at this moment in time committed to an outer northern relief road , I do n't think there 's any question of that . |
| 29 | Now the Chancellor is at this time usually an ecclesiastic , commonly a bishop , and , as such , interested in , and , at least in his own opinion , a good judge of questions of morality or ‘ conscience ’ . |
| 30 | As an extension of this military competence , the constable was by this date the established authority in cases of treason which had involved raising war against the king . |