Example sentences of "this [noun sg] be that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process of negotiating conflict all the participants help to set the framework of ideas within which conflict is managed and a crucial dimension of this framework is that the Japanese people are characteristically said to defer to the national consensus . |
| 2 | Another aspect of this change is that the return on investment has declined sharply . |
| 3 | The basic reason for this change is that the scale of government activity is so vast that , more and more , ministers have to delegate to their civil servants . |
| 4 | The reason given for this change is that there was recent wide coverage in the press of the case of an American paramedic who succeeded by fraudulent means in obtaining limited registration from the council . |
| 5 | One reason for this change is that the loosening of Russian control over Eastern Europe has bared old frictions . |
| 6 | One reason for this change was that the programme was to widen its coverage . |
| 7 | The result of this change was that one could no longer rely on notions of ‘ sinfulness ’ being used with regard to certain acts . |
| 8 | One result of this change was that the number of households enumerated was about 300 thousands more under the new definition or about 13 per cent ( Todd and Griffiths , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | The result of this link is that the most efficient producers tend to have the shortest development lead time . |
| 10 | What must be clear in a transcript of this kind is that a great deal of interpretation by the analyst has gone on before the reader encounters this ‘ data ’ . |
| 11 | The fundamental one in an investigation of this kind is that we do not need to accept any prior assumption about how society at large is organized or structured , and so in our interpretation we do not need to import any presuppositions from theories of social class and social structure or taxonomies of class or status , which may of course be controversial . |
| 12 | What is significant about formal markers of this kind is that they achieve two related effects in academic writing ( as in discourse more generally ) . |
| 13 | A major problem with imposing restrictions of this kind is that banks may find ways of getting round them . |
| 14 | The best-known effort of this kind was that made by Torcy in 1712 to prepare a small number of young men for the French diplomatic service by the creation of a ‘ Political Academy ’ . |
| 15 | What is really great about this guitar is that it is such an uncomplicated affair . |
| 16 | Available in either black or white the first thing you notice about this guitar is that sitting down and playing it is practically impossible ; it 's worse than a Flying V in that respect . |
| 17 | The interesting thing about this story is that the model was used almost as an incidental — she was portrayed in the distance , as the aesthetic human element on an otherwise deserted beach . |
| 18 | The twist to this story is that it was only when the gods lost patience and threatened to draw a veil of darkness across the proceedings , leaving me stranded high and wet ( and rather chilled ) on one of the most rugged landscapes in the land , that I at last took the chance and accepted the offer that had been proffered . |
| 19 | The latest episode in this story is that we have found that the proton and electron are made up of quarks held together by bonds of the order of 10 9 eV . |
| 20 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 21 | ‘ The reason why men are pioneering many new ideas in this field is that in terms of numbers they are still the large majority . |
| 22 | Indeed the overall triumph of art in this case is that the novel walks out into our fact rather than ourselves entering its fiction : a very primitive and absolute form of consumer capitulation . |
| 23 | The interesting point in this case is that the writer himself did not acknowledge the work of his assistants in his papers , so the reader had no knowledge of the writer 's separation from his data . |
| 24 | Unless … unless they face the truth — the truth ‘ that will make ye free ’ , according to the Bible — which in this case is that the love and/or respect that was earned by the deceased during their lifetime is there for ever in the minds and hearts of those who knew them . |
| 25 | The only difference in this case is that , instead of looking out for bees , Pooh gets Rabbit to say something ( 'Yes ' ) which he hears ( i.e. directly observes ) and understands ( i.e. takes to say , as a response to his question , that it 's a sign of honey ) . |
| 26 | The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) . |
| 27 | The interest of this case is that it indicates that a sentence of detention in a young offender institution can be justified under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4A) ( b ) , notwithstanding the fact that the offender was originally dealt with for the offences by means of a probation order . |
| 28 | What is important about this case is that in factual circumstances similar to those before this House the plaintiffs contended for the principle relied upon by Mr. Gardiner and failed to persuade the judge that such a principle existed . |
| 29 | The final result in this case is that such a molecule should have six IR bands , all with coincident Raman bands , plus three Raman bands with no IR counterparts . |
| 30 | The difference in this case is that , given the character points in fig 1.2ii there is no indication about which sequence the points were created in . |