Example sentences of "[be] this [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artists who might once have worked only on a more conventional sort of picture are this year moving into designing screens as well . |
| 2 | Ironically , it might have been this shadow hanging over him which was responsible for his change in fortunes on the course . |
| 3 | This is needed because the triumph over the fear of death is a fundamental human need and without it there will always be this fear looming in the background of the mind . |
| 4 | This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely . |
| 5 | Were this plan to go into efect , it would make the opposition the strongest group in the government . |
| 6 | PLANS for Britain 's first commercial power station to be fuelled by household refuse were this week rubbished by old hands in the municipal waste business . |
| 7 | House builders were this week accused of going back on their word by increasing the number of homes they intend to build on a Darlington estate . |
| 8 | So you can phone her and say , ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , you know , I do n't know what I 've done , done something silly , can you tell me , is this phone diverted to such and such ’ , or whatever . |
| 9 | Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor , is this weekend closeted with his Treasury team assessing the danger to his economic strategy from last week 's rise in interest rates , and the sharp rise in unemployment . |
| 10 | S so , so where is this radicalization coming from ? |
| 11 | is this stuff lying in the bottom there . |
| 12 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |
| 13 | Only comparatively rarely is this word brought into contact with ruach , though we can not expect , and do not find , complete consistency . |
| 14 | On the bleak and barren Alston Moor , near the Durham border , is this village built in the early nineteenth century for the miners employed by the London Lead Company . |
| 15 | Is this approach justified on the available evidence , or is it another premature presupposition without a true basis ? |
| 16 | It is this propensity to engage in self-critique that is perhaps the key distinguishing feature of the academic community . |
| 17 | IN THE LAST ISSUE OF HOT PRESS FULL DETAILS WERE ANNOUNCED CONCERNING THE GROLSCH SHOWCASE ‘ 92 COMPETITIONS WHICH IS THIS YEAR DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS : SONGWRITING , CREATIVE WRITING AND PHOTOGRAPHY . |
| 18 | If he hangs on they will say , ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 19 | If he were to hang on , he told Stamfordham , the nation would say : ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 20 | What is this man charged with ? ’ |
| 21 | Now as promised it 's time to zig zag to the onion bag … what is this man talking about … it 's football speak from Cambridge manager John Beck whose team play Swindon tomorrow … it 's the order he gives to his strikers before a game … zig zag … well that means running … weaving with the ball … the onion bag is the goal net of course … so here we go with this week 's football roundup |
| 22 | Why is this breakthrough occurring in these countries ? |
| 23 | So there is this simplicity going in one direction while we 've got this sort of tritone bass line going in another . |
| 24 | To what extent is this view substantiated by British foreign policy 1854 to 1878 ? |
| 25 | Nor is this view held by the unit . |
| 26 | She referred to the confusion and ambivalence about what social workers do , writing : ‘ Nor is this confusion dispelled by a study of the posts which regularly appear … |
| 27 | Is this team to play in Europe ? … in which case can we have the Frog ? ( te he he ! ) |
| 28 | BRIAN CLOUGH , the Nottingham Forest manager , is this morning pictured in several English-based newspapers apparently delivering a V-sign to the club 's supporters at the City Ground . |
| 29 | A HUGE furnace from a once-mighty steel factory is this morning lying in four pieces on a Mersey dockside . |
| 30 | A HUGE furnace from a once-mighty steel factory is this morning lying in four pieces on a Mersey dockside . |