Example sentences of "[adj] be [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is nothing compared to the violence that could erupt when Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho , leaving PLO fighters newly recruited as Palestinian police to face Islamic and nationalist guerrillas hardened by five years of the intifada uprising against Israel . |
| 2 | This is nothing compared with the spectacular catalogue of gargoyles and grotesques found elsewhere : South American lemurs ; crocodile-toothed , bulging-eyed monsters ; tormented faces emitting vegetation as if it were ectoplasm ; demons gulping down children , baboons , and even snarling severed heads . |
| 3 | Although there has been some fluctuation in private sector figures , this is nothing compared with the dramatic decline shown in the public sector figures . |
| 4 | ( In the air this is nothing to do with the actual wind . |
| 5 | ‘ Almost certainly — unless , of course , by some remarkable chance this is nothing to do with the Iranians . |
| 6 | He said this is nothing to do with the college . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone like Ice Cube says , ‘ This is me speaking from the street ’ . |
| 8 | And this is what happens to the podvig tic which obsesses the notebooks and the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter : it becomes deflected and surrealized into eruptive impenetrable little freaks . |
| 9 | If this is what happens in the North now , how much worse then would things be in a united Ireland ? : |
| 10 | This is what happens in the cases of textbook transmission that I referred to earlier : the teacher is required only to put into operation ideas which have already been realized as materials and is given no guidance in the evaluation of the validity of the principles on which the materials have been designed even when these principles are clear to the textbook writers themselves . |
| 11 | This is what happens in the O. Henry stories , for example . |
| 12 | This is what accounted for the enormous popularity of Julius Chongo 's Pocheza M'madzulo , especially in Lusaka and in Eastern province . |
| 13 | He had admitted some years before that his prose was that of a controversialist rather than a " thinker " and this is what emerges in The Idea of a Christian Society . |
| 14 | This is what happened on the successful night . |
| 15 | This is what happened with the regretted ending to L'Education sentimentale : it generated an entire novel of its own , called first ‘ Under Napoleon III ’ , and later ‘ A Parisian Household ’ . |
| 16 | Not often are authors of BMJ papers arrested by the fraud squad , but this is what happened to the authors of the paper on p 691 . |
| 17 | Perhaps this is what happened in the neighbouring rooms , which were occupied by all different people . |
| 18 | This is what happened in the Carboniferous swamps . |
| 19 | This is what happened in the Lebanon . |
| 20 | This is what happened in the case of junk bond king Michael Milken . |
| 21 | This is what occurred in the buyer 's factory but , because a number of ampoules were being washed together , the explosion was much greater than might have been predicted and the damage much more extensive . |
| 22 | Indeed this is what accounts for the impression given by this type of use that there is a difference between what was perceived and what actually happened . |
| 23 | This was what lay at the centre of the metaphysical speculations often pursued by the Symbolists . |
| 24 | The scheme was funded out of general taxation , though an element of payment for the health service remained in the national insurance contribution , creating a confusing illusion that this was what paid for the service . |
| 25 | And this was what happened in the Falklands . |
| 26 | And this was what happened in the 1960s and 1970s — the subject of the next chapter . |
| 27 | Still , I suppose this was what happened in the Middle Ages . |
| 28 | All this was something to do with the manuscript . |
| 29 | In the case of Hinduism , we are led to ask whether all the gods are really ‘ God ’ , if by ‘ God ’ we intend to refer not to spiritual forces at work in the world but the absolute being who lies behind the gods themselves . |
| 30 | How much was it to go to the pictures ? |