Example sentences of "be [prep] this that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondary school is , after all , nearer to life after school , and it is about this that schools are increasingly urged to think . |
| 2 | It is over this that Heseltine bumps up against what is both his opportunity and his problem . |
| 3 | There is no continuity , no history , no meaning , and it is to this that Rolt ascribes our feelings of futility and alienation . |
| 4 | It was after this that Brother George ( Every ) and in his own way Father Gabriel ( Herbert ) , whose book Faber 's had published , told me that , on arrival at Kelham ( as everybody called the monastic headquarters ) , Eliot had been extremely , if not painfully , shy : so much so that the Fathers had not known how to deal with him . |
| 5 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 6 | It was after this that Vere Barker , his rather grand agent , helped him to get the house in Hampstead and began to up his fees even for radio — for which he continued to work — poems , plays , schools radio , £10 , £12 , £20 sometimes : it all totted up . |
| 7 | And it was into this that Benedict was dragged , through no fault of his own , poor boy ! ’ |
| 8 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 9 | It was from this that Powell helped to establish the identity of the muon as a heavy sibling of the electron and distinct from another particle , the ‘ pi-meson ’ or ‘ pion ’ . |