Example sentences of "this [noun sg] be that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The main impact of this measure was that many landlords used the freedom to evict allowed under decontrol to sell previously let properties into owner-occupation .
2 What attracts many scientists to this hypothesis is that those perturbations of the orbits of Neptune and Pluto have yet to be explained satisfactorily in any other way .
3 One additional feature of the responses to tasks exemplifying this criterion is that many pupils refer to 3-D shapes by the names of their faces , i.e. " a cube " may be referred to as " a square " , or a pyramid as a " triangle " .
4 Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK .
5 The background to this inquiry was that all students doing so studies as a supplementary study have to produce a project whit assessed by Birmingham Polytechnic .
6 One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ .
7 The nub of this criticism is that such views give rise to a kind of political paralysis : everything must wait until the revolutionary moment in which the production relations are transformed ; until then labour must play a purely oppositional role , a role which Precludes struggle of a ‘ prefigurative ’ kind .
8 The results of this approach are that some individuals may be committed to lifelong drug therapy which they do not need .
9 A consequence of this approach is that many managers within one division will not know what is important to another division , as well as the overall corporation .
10 The main difficulty of this interpretation is that all traces of the actual cella have been lost ( his p. 18 ) .
11 The implication of this note is that most readers did not want to hear that anything was wrong , and that Wordsworth 's doubts about the growth of industry show original thinking on his part .
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