Example sentences of "[be] that this [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The indications are that this site may have been exploited for at least a year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It may be that this analysis could show universities those regions where particular methodologies , previously untried , may yield useful new information . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Another false contention is that this country will ‘ pull together for its nation 's sake ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 17 | The notation of a classification scheme is important , and in the context of the knowledge explosion one requirement is that this notation should be " hospitable " , that is , that it should allow for addition at any point in the scheme in the light of new knowledge and new concepts . |
| 18 | Our only worry is that this re-organisation might be used as an opportunity to cut funds to the police . |
| 19 | The bad news is that this direction could easily be reversed . |
| 20 | A good rule-of-thumb to remember is that this distance should be at least the height of the tree when it is fully matured . |
| 21 | What does seem to be a reasonable inference , however , is that this child would normally offer a response to an ambiguous or unclear statement on the confident expectation that his choice will be either confirmed or disconfirmed by the speaker . |
| 22 | The first is that this opportunity will never come again . |
| 23 | One possibility under consideration is that this assessment may take the form of a project or assignment to be completed by the candidate . |
| 24 | The important point to grasp is that this magnitude will be nowhere near so large as the level of total spending . |
| 25 | His starting point is that this structure will have the form of a grammar . |
| 26 | The danger is that this disparity will be enshrined in the formulas for distributing funds that local authorities are adopting as required by the 1988 Act . |
| 27 | are really making is that this period may seem trivially small compared , say , to the sinkage of capital involved in the decision to build and operate a power station . |
| 28 | A second limitation , at least if the joint profit maximizing ( cartel ) allocation is thought to be a likely objective of the collusion , is that this allocation may not be sustainable by threats of reversion to a Cournot-Nash equilibrium . |
| 29 | All that matters to me is that this technology will save Carly 's life . ’ |
| 30 | The danger here is that this ballooning could cut off the emergency cooling water altogether . |