Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv] [be] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some countries , at certain times , the consensus has been anti-inflationary : this has generally been the case in Germany , although the ‘ independent ’ Bundesbank has not prevented inflation being above 5% in eight of the last 20 years , quite apart from the monetary difficulties of German Monetary Union . |
| 2 | Although Beveridge argued that once older people had worked a full course and fulfilled ‘ the obligation of service ’ they were to receive ‘ an adequate income to maintain them ’ , this has never been the case in practice . |
| 3 | This has never been the case . |
| 4 | In many instances this has never been the case , which has left the door open for people who regard rabbits as a pest to use the most drastic and least sporting methods . |
| 5 | Needless to say , this has never been the case , although in the 1960s much excitement was temporarily generated by what appeared to be a relationship between the possession of an extra Y chromosome and persistent crime ( see Hall Williams , 1982 , Chapter 2 ) . |
| 6 | This has always been the child 's room , the girl-child . |
| 7 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 8 | And this has always been the case . |
| 9 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 10 | Oh well , this has always been the case , has n't it . |
| 11 | This has always been the people 's Parliament . |
| 12 | Of course in the past this has often been the lack of interest which has been shown by district councils , who have tried to ignore the existence of the press . |
| 13 | Where in the authorities difficulty has arisen this has often been the result of the introduction of an issue whether the creditor appointed the debtor as its agent to obtain the signature of the surety to the charge upon which the creditor sought to rely . |
| 14 | This has certainly been the experience of the authors and a number of other staff who have adopted this approach on their courses . |
| 15 | This has certainly been the case in Liverpool , where truancy prosecutions and care proceedings per annum fell by 40 per cent between 1981 and 1987 — although there has been a slight increase over the past couple of years . |
| 16 | This has certainly been the view of groups which sought to draw attention to the problems of the long-term unemployed and older workers — notably the Unemployment Alliance in the 1980s and now the Campaign Against Age Discrimination in Employment ( CAADE ) . |
| 17 | This has certainly been the record industry strategy : in the last ten years the major companies have consolidated their control of the manufacture and distribution of records , tapes and videos while leaving more and more of the musical enterprise to the ‘ independents ’ . |
| 18 | In some respects they use new language and embody in a formal text rules that have not been specified in that way before ; this has indeed been the way the laws of war have developed for 150 years . |
| 19 | This has indeed been the thrust of German policy for several years . |
| 20 | It could be anticipated that the college would have seen the creation of a continuous stream of books and papers generated by the rich source of material which pours through its gates , but this has hardly been the case . |
| 21 | This has recently been the subject of judicial review proceedings . |