Example sentences of "this [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( His most categorical assertions of this are in Guide to Kul- chur . ) |
| 2 | Telling this are Ruth herself ( Carol Been ) , her tragically decaying father ( Alfred Hoffman ) , and a very nasty policeman ( Saul Reichlin ) . |
| 3 | The implications of this are chilling in an era marked by growing , destabilising imbalances among the world 's largest industrial economies . |
| 4 | Reminders of this are visible even in the decor of the red-light quarter . |
| 5 | The Key words in this are ‘ by charitable means ’ and we acknowledged this recently when we appealed for funds for Dowding House under the theme ‘ We honour the dead by helping those who live ’ . |
| 6 | The reasons for this are obvious . |
| 7 | It may well be the case that an egregious idiocy has formed the basis of a political tradition — examples of this are plentiful — but ridiculing an historical phenomenon does not explain it . |
| 8 | The political implications of this are obvious : the State is not necessary for peace , whose basis must be found elsewhere . |
| 9 | But deeper than all this are the values of our society . |
| 10 | We do not know the exact site of the body clock in humans for the obvious reason that experiments to determine this are unethical . |
| 11 | Less extreme cases than this are more common ( see fig. 2.4 ) . |
| 12 | Among those who will do this are Combined Power Systems , SPP Energy and British Gas . |
| 13 | Clothes like this are good for the location filming on Going Live — warm , comfortable and bright , which is vital for TV |
| 14 | If you feel that your award is wrong in some way you can ask for the decision to be reviewed or make an appeal — details of how to do this are available from social security benefit offices . |
| 15 | If you feel that your award is wrong in some way you can ask for the decision to be reviewed or make an appeal — details of how to do this are available from social security benefit offices . |
| 16 | If you feel that your award is wrong in some way you can ask for the decision to be reviewed or make an appeal — details of how to do this are available from social security benefit offices . |
| 17 | Commenting afterwards on this unfriendly aspect to a so-called friendly , the Argentinian coach Carlos Bilardo explained : ‘ Games like this are friendly in name only . |
| 18 | Diagrams illustrating this are familiar from books on optics , and the idea was that distance is calculated and judged by means of these angles . |
| 19 | The implications of this are awesome , because the Christian life is a continuation of atonement . |
| 20 | In addition , some of the carbon available to an organism may come from a source that is not in equilibrium with the atmosphere ; the problems caused by this are called the ‘ reservoir effects ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps a common expression of this are the preparations people undertake when they are about to go on a trip . |
| 22 | Sometimes they demonstrably were not ; for example , portraits of the Emperor Augustus struck at the end of his reign , when he was seventy-six , do not depict a man of that age and do not correspond with the unflattering description given by his biographer , Suetonius. portraits such as this are intended to be the embodiment of a political ideal rather than a realistic likeness ( though in some cases , such as that of Nero , they might be both ) . |
| 23 | The causes of this are not entirely clear , but were probably a combination of the increasing costs of warfare ( as the empire came under severe pressure from the barbarians across the Rhine and Danube , and from the Persians in the east ) and of the exhaustion of the Roman mines in Spain , which seem for the first two centuries AD to have provided an important contribution to the difference between Rome 's income ( taxes ) and expenditure ( especially on war ) . |
| 24 | Convincing public demonstrations of this are , however , rare . |
| 25 | ‘ The benefits delivered by a trip like this are considerable . |
| 26 | ‘ The reasons for this are unclear unless people do not believe the inflation forecasts of 3.8 p.c. for the year and are anticipating a hardening labour market as the country comes out of recession , ’ says Reward . |
| 27 | Among ab initio programs that do this are Polyatom 1 , Ibmol Hondo , Gaussian 70 , Gaussian 76 , Gaussian 80 and Gaussian 82 . |
| 28 | Two useful statements which illustrate this are provided firstly by Pettigrew ( 1973 p. 17 ) : |
| 29 | This curious animal has what was probably a gut and a set of tubules arising from it ; below this are curious pointed structures . |
| 30 | The reasons for this are not discussed . |