Example sentences of "[be] [that] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My instructions are that this boy is to move on . ’ |
| 2 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 3 | My own conclusions , which in this case are probably completely worthless , are that this ticking represents a period of grace — I mean that it can not explode — as long as the ticking lasts and that it 's not designed to explode when the ticking stops but is then activated and ready to explode when triggered by passing engines . |
| 4 | Indicates are that this figure is continuing to rise . |
| 5 | The indications are that this site may have been exploited for at least a year . |
| 6 | Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case . |
| 7 | The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition . |
| 8 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 9 | The non-lexical task most intensively studied is reading nonwords aloud , and the most commonly advocated view has been that this task is accomplished by using a system of rules relating spellings to sounds . |
| 10 | MPs are in the unique position of being able to vote themselves unlimited money from public funds : the dominant view among MPs has always been that this power must be exercised with restraint . |
| 11 | It may however be that this type of procedural check is not the most effective in this area . |
| 12 | It may well be that this reduction in severity of symptoms has brought the symptoms of NSU much closer to those of gonorrhoea and thereby exaggerated their importance . |
| 13 | Supposed to be that this whole you know , Ronald Reagan , Swing-to-the-Right , Fun-Fashion , Fifties thing disny stop at the glitter-sox the roll-ons and the lurex ! |
| 14 | One of the reasons underlying the inconsistent results with regard to the effect of familial sinistrality might be that this factor is likely to be confounded with family size ( Bradshaw , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | As offending during the currency of a community order will not necessarily be a ground under Criminal Justice Act 1991 for re-sentencing an offender who is subject to a community order , and failure to respond to a community order must be disregarded when considering whether an offence is sufficiently serious to justify a custodial sentence ( s.29(1) ) , it may be that this decision will become particularly important under the new legislation . |
| 16 | Mr Lambert said : ‘ It may be that this man was hitch-hiking or waiting for a lift . ’ |
| 17 | It may well be that this building was the Quartermasters Stores originally . |
| 18 | If he is right , it may well be that this policeman has finally made the break from vulgar self-advertisement into the megalomaniac personality cult fantasies of a Kim Il Sung or a Robert Maxwell . |
| 19 | It might be that this girl was a con woman and he and Camb the first victims of a colossal deception . |
| 20 | It may be that this goddess was worshipped at the peak sanctuaries , where it is known that pyres were lit ; the later Artemis cult also involved mountain-top bonfires . |
| 21 | The truth seems to be that this question itself can not be answered in a way which is neutral between different positions in meta-ethics and ethics and is hardly worth discussing in the abstract . |
| 22 | This situation is common in many academic areas , as I have discovered talking to colleagues , and it may be that this state of inflation and over-production is economically unavoidable , that many inferior books have to be published in order to let the good ones appear . |
| 23 | It could be that this development marks the beginning of a teaching force which is professional in reality as well as in name . |
| 24 | It may well be that this development makes matters worse . |
| 25 | It can be that this behaviour is mistaken for psychiatric problems . ’ |
| 26 | Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die . |
| 27 | It may be that this prophecy lies behind the account of the expulsion from the Temple of those who bought and sold . |
| 28 | It may be that this explanation is not an acceptable answer to the question , but it is presented by the speaker in a form which conveys ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ in this part of the conversation . |
| 29 | The first conclusion must be that this failure is not unexpected because social services were not designed to reduce such inequalities . |
| 30 | It may be that this analysis could show universities those regions where particular methodologies , previously untried , may yield useful new information . |