Example sentences of "this be [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of this are his fierce-looking lady ( to a heavily armed German soldier advancing over the lawn ) : ‘ How dare you come in here ! ’ , or a placid scene in a country pub where the radio on the bar is tuned to the German propaganda station : ‘ Meanwhile , in Britain , the entire population , faced by the threat of an invasion has been flung into a state of complete panic . ’ |
| 2 | Had this been my regular field of action , I too would have made myself hors de combat . |
| 3 | Had this been his dominating characteristic , he could not possibly have retained his position through the vicissitudes and challenges of a decade and a half . |
| 4 | Women 's freedom to purchase their own housing , should this be their desire , is thus severely limited . |
| 5 | Gloucester won 17-10 ; could this be their year to win the cup ? |
| 6 | When I go from hence let this be my parting word , that what I have seen is unsurpassable . |
| 7 | I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light , and thus am I blessed — let this be my parting word . |
| 8 | My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch ; and if the end comes here , let it come — let this be my parting word . |
| 9 | Could this be your ring ? it was found down by the river with an ear-pick and a stiletto . |
| 10 | COULD this be your summer house ? |
| 11 | Indeed if this were its intended effect , it is difficult to see why the subsection goes on to say that it is not necessary to obtain the parents ' consent , rather than providing that such consent , if obtained , should be ineffective . |
| 12 | ‘ If this were my life , ’ he says softly , ‘ I 'd be living in a hotel made of chocolate sponge cake and organ music . |
| 13 | I mean some of them wanted to pay but I said no you helped us to feed them so , this , this were me dad 's idea you see , he was always very fair-minded me dad was . |
| 14 | At this were his knights little pleased . |
| 15 | She quoted the example of a mother and daughter who habitually appeared ‘ with dishevelled hair and untidy blouses at 11 o'clock in the morning ’ , and where dirty teacups rested on the breakfast table , but the fact was that both women stayed up until 4 am buttonholing , this being their only source of income . |
| 16 | The average group however choose private provision when G is low or medium , hence preferring the lower level of state spending , but switch to public provision when G is high , this being their overall preferred level . |
| 17 | So this being his last free Wednesday for a while , he had decided to give himself a treat . |
| 18 | Harbour was extremely nervous , this being his first professional engagement , and equally determined to seize his chance . |
| 19 | Yet despite this being his long-term plan , he still thought of England as ‘ home ’ , of Alice and the Pritchetts as his ‘ family ’ , of Aubrey as his best friend . |
| 20 | And if I can take this as , this being your okay , and you 've got this thirty thousand pounds a year coming in |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone was passing judgement on this being my big day but I enjoyed it . |
| 22 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 23 | This being our first promising response , I explain briefly our reasons once again . |
| 24 | This is its highest level for eight years and will result in an increase of at least one per cent on home loan rates , possibly more . |
| 25 | This is its first publication anywhere . |
| 26 | This is its third famine warning in four years , and the direst so far . |
| 27 | The Kiss quite simply , tells the story of this relationship in an open and sensitive way — this is its strength . |
| 28 | The reasons lie in its complex physical chemistry , and central to this is its atomic structure . |
| 29 | I paid £130 when I bought it second hand and would like to know if this is its true value . |
| 30 | This is its acceptance of a paint decoration without risk of ‘ show-through ’ . |