Example sentences of "[be] [that] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |
| 32 | It might be that this season will be his last chance , that he is a manager who can win Cups with short sprints but not the silverware that goes with marathons . |
| 33 | In early ethnic models of settlement origin it was assumed that this was a Celtic pattern of settlement , but could it be that this pattern in fact represents the oldest arrangements in the landscape ? |
| 34 | Swiss-owned stockbrokers Phillips & Drew are trying to soothe the Swiss bond managers , but the betting must be that this group of investors will be far more successful than Heron 's bankers in demanding sweeteners for accepting late payment . |
| 35 | erm But in terms of public order crimes , it may well be that this sort of view does not act as a preventative to erm prevent the same thing happening again . |
| 36 | The seventh-century chronicler Fredegar thought that they were given lands by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy , who thereby gained tax exemption in the days of Valentinian I. It may be that this information actually relates to the reign of Valentinian III , and therefore that it is the same as the grant of Sapaudia , but this is by no means certain . |
| 37 | Well we do n't have a definite answer erm Gill but we think it may have experienced a shock of some sort during that season and of course when this happens to fruit trees they can go into bi-annual cropping and then they come back again , it may be that this horse chestnut 's experienced something very similar . |
| 38 | According to the joint letter issued by President Mitterrand and Chancellor Kohl before the second Rome summit in December 1990 , the idea seems to be that this power might rest with the Council of Ministers . |
| 39 | The difference being that this time the child is inside and not outside , and the poet is remembering his own childhood . |
| 40 | The big worry for British engineering companies is that this recession , like the previous one , will increase the rate at which their share of world markets is shrinking . |
| 41 | Another false contention is that this country will ‘ pull together for its nation 's sake ’ . |
| 42 | The situation today is that many sixteen to eighteen year olds , who were unable to get a training place , are disbarred from getting income support , and the situation today is that this country has the lowest level of skilled workers in the European Community . |
| 43 | What can be said , however , is that this sense of an ultimate monotheism according to which the gods are recognised to be manifestations of a single absolute reality is deeply woven into the religious tradition of Hindus . |
| 44 | One prevalent notion is that this self-improvement can be achieved through encouraging less rational , more intuitive , styles of thinking , and that dreams represent this ideal . |
| 45 | The paradox is that this skilfulness is inextricably intertwined with incompetence . |
| 46 | But one of the great changes from the past is that this possibility of living alone is swiftly becoming a probability . |
| 47 | What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production . |
| 48 | What examination of the rhetoric of the National Front magazines shows is that this tradition is wider than the beliefs of the individual editors . |
| 49 | A possible explanation is that this jacket may well have been the last issue made to C/Sgt Nicholl in the last year or so of his service , and , as will be seen , may have been scarcely worn . |
| 50 | The point is that this kind of overview is rarely possible by busy practitioners on the ground , working in parallel grooves but seldom in tandem , in social services , education , voluntary nurseries , playgroups , special needs assessment centres , units , nurseries . |
| 51 | My Lord er the basis of this objection is that this evidence is not admissible under a sign of authority and erm I wonder if I could start er my submission on this by referring to er on evidence . |
| 52 | But the general point is that this hierarchy represents a ladder up which ‘ lower ’ groups aspire to climb . |
| 53 | The general feeling is that this trend would be more acceptable if archaeologists in the various French regions had adequate financial resources , the necessary training , and real independence to decide where to dig . |
| 54 | Finally he declared : All I can say as an honest person is that this boy is the greatest man now living in the world . |
| 55 | First , Nicholas Budgen , the somewhat maverick right-wing Tory MP , said on 5 December 1984 when receiving the Spectator Backbencher-of-the-Year Award , ‘ My hope is that this Parliament will see a restoration of Cabinet government . ’ |
| 56 | What is puzzling , however , is that this increase occurred in spite of the fact , as Beenstock points out , that ‘ marginal tax rates were lower in 1968 than they were in 1956 . ’ |
| 57 | One difficulty , however , is that this offence covers a wide range of situations from killings just short of murder to carelessly causing death . |
| 58 | One reason is that this conflation of binaries enables a merging of misogyny and homophobia , each of which then potentially expresses the violence of the other . |
| 59 | The result is that this sector of the industry now has a new generation of site distribution equipment to transport bulk food or plated meals , in equipment which suits its requirements , at sensible , serviceable and , most importantly , affordable prices . |
| 60 | On is that a recombinant gp160 envelope glycoprotein precursor from HIV-1 produced by MicroGeneSys in a baculovirus expression system does not bind strongly to the CD4 receptor ; and the other is that this recombinant gp160 does not stimulate the same antibodies as the HIV-1 virus does in natural infection . |