Example sentences of "[is] that this [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 Another false contention is that this country will ‘ pull together for its nation 's sake ’ .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 . ’
6 What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining .
7 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 .
8 Our only worry is that this re-organisation might be used as an opportunity to cut funds to the police .
9 The bad news is that this direction could easily be reversed .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The first is that this opportunity will never come again .
13 One possibility under consideration is that this assessment may take the form of a project or assignment to be completed by the candidate .
14 The important point to grasp is that this magnitude will be nowhere near so large as the level of total spending .
15 His starting point is that this structure will have the form of a grammar .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 All that matters to me is that this technology will save Carly 's life . ’
20 The danger here is that this ballooning could cut off the emergency cooling water altogether .
21 The miracle of anorexia is that this wish can be fulfilled : one does not have to grow up ; one does not have to become a woman , even in the biological sense ; one can reject all foreign substances , for which food is a metaphor , and subject them to one 's will .
22 5.22 Defective premises To give notice to the Landlord of any defect in the Premises which might give rise to an obligation on the Landlord to do or refrain from doing any act or thing in order to comply with the provisions of this Lease or the duty of care imposed on the Landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 or otherwise and at all times to display and maintain all notices which the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] require to be displayed at the Premises The difficulty here is that this covenant could impose an unfair obligation on the tenant and it should therefore be amended as follows : To give notice to the Landlord upon becoming aware of any defect … 5.23 New guarantor Within [ 14 ] days of the death during the Term of any Guarantor or of such person becoming bankrupt or having a receiving order made against him or having a receiver appointed under the Mental Health Act 1983 or being a company passing a resolution to wind up or entering into liquidation or having a receiver appointed to give notice of this to the Landlord and if so required by the Landlord at the expense of the Tenant within [ 28 ] days to procure some other person acceptable to the Landlord [ such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld ] to execute a guarantee in respect of the Tenant 's obligations contained in this Lease in the form of the Guarantor 's covenants contained in this Lease Although this may be perfectly fair and reasonable in that a guarantor 's covenants are expected to last during the period for which they are given , many tenants try to resist this covenant on the basis that it may be extremely difficult for the tenant to produce an alternative guarantor .
23 The clever part is that this frame can be manipulated to make it into an irregular shape as required to match the text to the graphic .
24 The intention is that this theme should be approached in a number of ways , involving a variety of approaches to the photographic medium and the exhibition will also include archive material from the collection of Summerlee and other sources .
25 The intention is that this theme should be approached in a number of ways , involving a variety of approaches to the photographic medium and the exhibition will also include archive material from the collection of Summerlee and other sources .
26 What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified .
27 The idea is that this aircraft could fill the gap in the navy 's procurement schedule caused by the recent cancellation of the A-12 stealth machine that the navy was developing .
28 Our hope is that this letter will be a warning to others and that some of your readers may be alerted to check on their security arrangements , whether it be simple precautions or advice about a security installation .
29 The only cause for celebration tonight is that is that this uprating will be the Secretary of State 's and the Government 's last .
30 The irony is that this victory may contain the seeds of eventual defeat .
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