Example sentences of "[conj] this [be] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So providing they 're an existing client , or this is their second application with you tonight . |
| 2 | Although this is their main role , like other members of the security forces , they are permitted to shoot — but only when they feel their lives , or the lives of others , are in danger . |
| 3 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 4 | As a congregation comes before God and gives time to him in praise , they are declaring their understanding that this is their highest purpose and pleasure in life : to know God . |
| 5 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 6 | Local inspectors , on the other hand , can rightly argue that this is their great strength . |
| 7 | For many years now , legal provision has been made for the importation of workers for the harvesting of fruit and vegetables , there being very specific acknowledgement that this is something native-born Americans can not be persuaded in the necessary numbers to do . |
| 8 | It stands , alert in its inscrutable knowing that this is its proper season , primed to rebuke the dysfunctioning human subject , a riddling , aleatoric text of querulous combustion . |
| 9 | ‘ Would you say that this is her natural colour ? ’ he asked . |
| 10 | Atlaal ( 12.30 ) has had an outing on the flat recently and should be fit enough , despite the fact that this is his first hurdles race since February . |
| 11 | Are you listening those of you who claim that this is his only strength ? |
| 12 | Once again Day-Lewis manages almost chameleon-like to become subsumed by the part he is acting and although here it is basically one dimensional he persuades easily that this is his actual persona . |
| 13 | The fact that , for Moore , the value of a thing follows necessarily from its intrinsic nature , from what it is like , makes it a little misleading to say , as is often done , that it is supposed to be always an open question whether something characterised in terms of its natural , or metaphysical , properties is good or not , and that this is his chief reason for regarding good as indefinable . |
| 14 | Either way , the problem you describe , combined with the fact that this is your first dog , makes me think you should go back to the RSPCA and ask them to put you in touch with the most suitable , local training club . |
| 15 | more whining from the norwegian wood : ( OK — i promise that this is my last posting about Frank before/if he leaves ) |
| 16 | I must mention that this is my own car and not the company car , in case our car fleet manager is getting worried ! |
| 17 | You see … it 's no the right time … whit ah mean is — that this is my bad week . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd like to I 'd like to thank the panel for the work which they have done on this very difficult issue and , although the convenor has said that it is perhaps a difficult thing to alter the text of such a document on the floor of the house , I think we also have to point out that this is our only opportunity to comment upon this particular draft which will become a definitive draft if passed by the general assembly today . |
| 19 | And it was a little strange that this was their first meeting ; her red Golf was a frequent sight on the headland , her cottage had frequently met Iris eyes from the top storey of the mill . |
| 20 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 21 | If only two hundred were to be seen , then the chances were that Balliol would assume that this was their full strength . |
| 22 | We tend now to think of Classical bronze statuary , for example , as being covered with a fine green or deep brown patina , and moreover that this was their original state . |
| 23 | ‘ I explained that I was 31 , I 'd had a history of infertility , and that this was my second pregnancy and I really wanted a child . |
| 24 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
| 25 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 26 | So much is clear ; can we go further , and say that Otto himself went to Rome to be crowned in order to complete his pilgrimage in Charlemagne 's footsteps , that this was his chief motive ? |
| 27 | He did not need to raise his voice or even explain that this was his final word on the matter . |
| 28 | She did not appreciate that this was his normal greeting , and assumed that her reputation had preceded her . |
| 29 | The Shah agreed and said that this was his great goal . |
| 30 | Today when society , and consequently education , is increasingly dominated by national , academic and statistical considerations and visual imagination is neglected , I believe that this was his great contribution , the survival of which is of the greatest importance . |