Example sentences of "[is] that this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mr George Carman QC , in his final speech for the defence , made much of this ; ‘ The plain fact , when you come to the evidence , is that this melancholy prosecution is now in a state of retreat and disarray . ’ |
| 2 | The main point , however , is that this alternative way of analysing profit seems to lend itself more naturally to business thinking and can be linked in with conceptual thinking about strategy . |
| 3 | The first very fascinating discovery a visitor to Alvingham will make is that this small village has two churches in one churchyard . |
| 4 | The idea is that this cytoplasmic head communicates with two calcium channels , one in the ER and the other in the plasma membrane . |
| 5 | One 's first thought is that this apparent contradiction arises from the confusion of Molla Fenari with his elder son , Mehmed Sah , whose death is assigned in several of the extant chronological lists to the years 840/1436–7 or 839/1435–6 . |
| 6 | The good news is that this protective effect not only extends to babies , it applies to the nursing mothers too . |
| 7 | But what 's so striking is that this great diversity of belief is accompanied by strong convictions of rationality and rectitude . |
| 8 | Another speculation is that this odd behaviour ( to humans ) is a genetically controlled one that goes back to the days of the giant ground sloths . |
| 9 | The truth of the matter is that this sectarian phase of PCF development coincided precisely with a highly sectarian phase in Nizan 's personal development . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , what I have to say , and remember , I 'm only an agent , I do n't speak for myself , is that this young man has great expectations . ’ |
| 11 | The problem is that this divine Christ is , in the second of his two natures , the human person Jesus , who is male . |
| 12 | The story , passed down through the centuries , is that this powerful order somehow chanced upon the proof that Christ did not die upon the cross but was taken down , survived and was subsequently married . |
| 13 | What is clear is that this golden age did not exist in the mid 1950s , in the first part of this century nor in the first half of the last century . |
| 14 | The fly in the ointment , and a huge one , is that this new Chicago , new Democratic party , and new city government is white ( or anyhow non-black ) . |
| 15 | A specific objective is that this new body will work directly with the local enterprise companies . |
| 16 | However , the great hope all dieters have is that this new diet will be the one that will really work . |
| 17 | I think the problem is that this one point seven billion was er an actuarial assessment by Watsons i it may never have been that amount of money . |
| 18 | ‘ What I feel you are saying to me is that this previous relationship is something you do n't want to talk about in front of Tom . |
| 19 | Secondly , although it is true that all the institutions that are discussed have been described as " marriage " in the relevant literature , the whole point of my argument is that this very fact tends to mislead . |
| 20 | The result is that this whole question of measuring risk has became a mess . |
| 21 | The concern is that this high energy agitation can transform healthy amino acids into toxic ‘ mirror images ’ of themselves . |
| 22 | My argument is that this harmonious interpretation can be fully understood only by interpreting Dicey 's entire theory in the light of the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 23 | What is particularly interesting is that this nuclear PLC- β is activated when Swiss 3T3 cells are stimulated by IGF-1 , whereas bombesin has no effect even though it is a potent activator of phosphoinositide hydrolysis at the plasma membrane . |
| 24 | However , the architects ' view is that this communal aspect of the building is most clearly expressed architecturally by the central atrium , a space overlooked by the lift lobbies and the galleries of each upper floor that gives access to the flats . |
| 25 | ‘ My gut feeling is that this coming year will be my last , ’ |
| 26 | ‘ My gut feeling is that this coming year will be my last , ’ she said . |
| 27 | The bad news for small-time acts is that this exploratory role has diminished significantly over the last ten years . |
| 28 | And the good news is that this mind-boggling occasion will not be spoilt by the Welsh team trotting on when it has all finished … |
| 29 | The music press of the late '50s grudgingly conceded the popularity of rock but the implicit assumption is that this teenage fad had no staying power . |
| 30 | One of the problems is that this last type of research tends to be attractive to local authorities and central government departments who face pressing problems , and there is a danger that such studies can become too influential on policy when little else is available . |