Example sentences of "[be] that this [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The specifics are n't clear , but the contextual indications are that this would include American art from say , Pollock to André , not to mention a range of contemporary work on commodification stemming from Warhol .
2 The predictions are that this will go further to encompass accident and emergency , maternity and even psychiatry .
3 Certain periods in the past have seen minor bursts of prison reform , and it may be that this will produce another .
4 They would devolve power to national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and to regional assemblies in England , and their hope is that this would promote a sense of national and regional identity while preserving the United Kingdom and a sense of belonging to a British community .
5 The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access .
6 One of the main reasons for wanting one 's own basic beliefs to be infallible is that this would guarantee that they are all true .
7 Er now I mean One thing that a lot of the literature says is that this might indicate a power , and another thing that the literature says
8 The danger in quoting fragments of their writings out of context is that this may distort their intention and produce a static picture .
9 The trouble is that this can present psychological problems if , like me , you are not one of those people who has been riding since you first told some condescending aunt from your pushchair ‘ It 's not a horsy , it 's under 14.2hh ’ .
10 The not-so-good news is that this can take up to a year .
11 Their view is that this will lead to clinical resistance and ultimately to a failure to implement .
12 The suggestion is that this will reduce their chances of finding such work themselves and make them dependent for informal assistance on others whose circumstances are similar to their own .
13 So what we know is that this must have been blocked up before this doorway was inserted , okay ?
14 The risk is that this could tend to accentuate institutional complacency .
15 The acute danger of any use of nuclear weapons is that this could escalate to a full-scale strategic exchange between the superpowers .
16 On the river side of the High St. there is an area with a strange name , Great Winox , and what this meant we have been unable to discover , but one theory is that this could have been the ancient vineyard .
17 His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose .
18 Each Contracting State must designate such a Central Authority to receive requests for service coming from other Contracting States ; the expectation , borne out in practice , was that this would involve not the creation of some new agency but the designation as Central Authority for the purposes of this Convention of some existing office or ministry .
19 What I did not anticipate was that this would prove to be a matter as much of intrigue and scandal as of science .
  Next page