Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | And you can imagine the conrod in your car is about this size . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Here the ‘ glory ’ is presumably the stage between long gone youth and death as the poet is at this point on his ‘ deathbed ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The natural place to mount a small drawing is on this centre . |
| 11 | and you think he is the person from best able to say whose work is in this brochure ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Where any difference is by this condition to be referred to arbitration the making of an award shall be a condition precedent to any right of action against the Corporation . |
| 19 | Where any difference is by this condition to be referred to arbitration the making of an award shall be a condition precedent to any right of action against the Corporation . |
| 20 | what the overall overhead is for this organization , in terms of people |
| 21 | I do n't know what the one , the the there 's usually a theme for every one world week each year and I do n't know what the theme is for this year . |
| 22 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 23 | If we specify what the R group is in this case , it 's a methile group this would be called methoxy so there 'll be methoxy group is the substituant . |
| 24 | but , when you go into the passage his door , he 's got the door into the front room , same as ours , on the left , but when you get into the bottom of the passage , there 's a brick wall in front of ya , and it comes round and his door to the back dining room is on this side here |
| 25 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |
| 26 | Much of ecology is about this process : finding energy ; putting it to use . |
| 27 | The Prison Service is in this business of when things go wrong we have a full enquiry to learn the lessons . |
| 28 | Thus in the above example , investors are willing to pay slightly more in terms of time value for calls than for puts but the difference is so slight that the indicator is in this case quite inconclusive . |
| 29 | The sculpture of St John Nepomuk on the façade is of this date . |
| 30 | Use proper connectors such as the screwed block type as all the alternator output is through this pint . |