Example sentences of "is [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big worry for British engineering companies is that this recession , like the previous one , will increase the rate at which their share of world markets is shrinking . |
| 2 | Another false contention is that this country will ‘ pull together for its nation 's sake ’ . |
| 3 | The situation today is that many sixteen to eighteen year olds , who were unable to get a training place , are disbarred from getting income support , and the situation today is that this country has the lowest level of skilled workers in the European Community . |
| 4 | What can be said , however , is that this sense of an ultimate monotheism according to which the gods are recognised to be manifestations of a single absolute reality is deeply woven into the religious tradition of Hindus . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The paradox is that this skilfulness is inextricably intertwined with incompetence . |
| 7 | But one of the great changes from the past is that this possibility of living alone is swiftly becoming a probability . |
| 8 | What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production . |
| 9 | What examination of the rhetoric of the National Front magazines shows is that this tradition is wider than the beliefs of the individual editors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The point is that this kind of overview is rarely possible by busy practitioners on the ground , working in parallel grooves but seldom in tandem , in social services , education , voluntary nurseries , playgroups , special needs assessment centres , units , nurseries . |
| 12 | My Lord er the basis of this objection is that this evidence is not admissible under a sign of authority and erm I wonder if I could start er my submission on this by referring to er on evidence . |
| 13 | But the general point is that this hierarchy represents a ladder up which ‘ lower ’ groups aspire to climb . |
| 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 | Finally he declared : All I can say as an honest person is that this boy is the greatest man now living in the world . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | What is puzzling , however , is that this increase occurred in spite of the fact , as Beenstock points out , that ‘ marginal tax rates were lower in 1968 than they were in 1956 . ’ |
| 18 | One difficulty , however , is that this offence covers a wide range of situations from killings just short of murder to carelessly causing death . |
| 19 | One reason is that this conflation of binaries enables a merging of misogyny and homophobia , each of which then potentially expresses the violence of the other . |
| 20 | The result is that this sector of the industry now has a new generation of site distribution equipment to transport bulk food or plated meals , in equipment which suits its requirements , at sensible , serviceable and , most importantly , affordable prices . |
| 21 | On is that a recombinant gp160 envelope glycoprotein precursor from HIV-1 produced by MicroGeneSys in a baculovirus expression system does not bind strongly to the CD4 receptor ; and the other is that this recombinant gp160 does not stimulate the same antibodies as the HIV-1 virus does in natural infection . |
| 22 | One possibility is that this measure too responds , at least in part , to the reflectance , rather than merely the area . |
| 23 | When it is said that the continuation of the sterling area was an ‘ implicit ’ decision ( in sharp contrast to the debates on overseas expenditure ) the point being made is that this continuation was not the result , it would seem , of any debate within the Attlee government . |
| 24 | The likely result is that this wording does no more than track the law as laid down in Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 : see 13.6 . |
| 25 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 26 | Their only problem right now is that this tour is too short for them , their inexperience is a weakness and only more games will reduce that factor . |
| 27 | The only suggestion that I can offer is that this system enables mains transformers of various ratings to be put together form a limited number of standard sub-assemblies . |
| 28 | The only thing is that this text gives no reason to suppose that it also applied in cognitio . |
| 29 | But the power and the point of Barthes 's account of wrestling , as a spectacle that re-enacts the battle of good over evil with grandiloquence and excess of gesture and act , is that this interpretation is contrary to an accepted one of wrestling as a sport in which competitors demonstrate skill and strength in their progress towards a victory . |
| 30 | The real problem is that this building does not have the necessary cable ducts . |