Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her income support entitlement ended when she obtained maintenance at £5.00 per week but only one payment has been made this year . |
| 2 | This is some four times faster than the 1mm per year or so at which global sea level has been rising this century . |
| 3 | Sir Thomas Wentworth was informed in 1635 that ‘ The Justice seat has been kept this Easter week and all Essex has become forest and so they say will all the counties of England but three — Kent , Surrey and Sussex ’ . |
| 4 | The very words ‘ modern art ’ still carry by themselves a charge strong enough to disturb , dishearten , or even repel , some before they 've read a line or listened to a note of whatever work has been given this label . |
| 5 | The lad who made a big impact as a 16-year-old has been ignored this season . |
| 6 | ‘ The council has been capped this year and we felt it would have been incredibly insensitive to spend money on road races when some council workers are facing the prospect of losing their jobs . ’ |
| 7 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 8 | The small voluntary TRANSAID team has been strengthened this year by the addition of Eric Schumacher , formerly a senior manager with I.C.I. Eric brings with him extensive general management and transport experience , which is already proving to be valuable . |
| 9 | Once the right focus has been identified this will be applied to a range of Appeal materials from posters to T-Shirts . |
| 10 | Okay if I could say good evening and welcome to the theatre this evening the reason the meeting has been convened this evening quite clearly is part of the process and art structure for Harlow having undertaken by the Council , the Playhouse is keen as it says quite clearly on the leaflet is to get the publics view on how best to plan this programme and it 's , and facilities for the future . |
| 11 | In 1988 , the Sunday Times Insight team had been sent this dossier , read it and chose not to rely on it . |
| 12 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 13 | At 0430 there are no civilians about , and if a bomb had been planted this would be an ideal time to detonate it . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |
| 15 | Another free kick has been given this time against big Mike Whitlow Lively start to the game and a lively start for the referee . |
| 16 | British Rail tell us that the 6.30 Aylesbury to Marylebone train service has been cancelled this evening , while the buses continue to operate a trouble-free service . |
| 17 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 18 | The French and the US National Science Foundation have been doing this for some time . ’ |
| 19 | Mairead has been elected this year to the Executive Committee as Tralee Area Secretary . |
| 20 | The strategy had been to mobilize this vision of art by means missionary work of national ( as opposed to state ) intellectuals . |
| 21 | Restrictions on water use have been imposed this month in areas of the south and east of the country , which is experiencing the worst drought this century . |
| 22 | Considerable quantities of Ecstasy and LSD have been seized this year from buses and cars along the Derry-Donegal border . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State has been awaiting this advice for sometime . |
| 24 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 25 | Ultimately there would be a depreciation of the exchange rate under a free-floating regime , but the policy response of the government has been to prevent this occurring by sustaining a high level of domestic interest rates . |
| 26 | One or another young kid has been watching this place since I left . |
| 27 | i ) In the case where a court order has not yet been made , the nature of the cautioner 's interest may be shown as : the former wife of the registered proprietor having made application for a property adjustment order under s24 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 by proceedings in the [ Manchester ] County Court between [ husband ] and [ wife ] bearing number of matter ii ) In the case where the court order in favour of the wife has been made , but the transfer has not yet been executed and lodged in HM Land Registry and no earlier caution has been registered this might be : the registered proprietor [ husband ] has been ordered to transfer all his estate and interest in the property to [ wife ] by an order made in the [ Manchester ] County Court dated in proceedings between [ husband ] and [ wife ] bearing number of matter Unless a caution is registered there is risk ; before lodging the transfer the wife 's solicitor will make a Form 94C search , but such search does not confer priority for the registration of any dealing ( Land Registration ( Official Searches ) Rules 1990 ( SI No 1361 ) , r9 ) . |
| 28 | Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring . |
| 29 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |
| 30 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |