Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] be this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |
| 2 | When Harriet once again saw her daughter off at Penzance station it was this time with a sense of relief . |
| 3 | We can change the terminology , we can give it different words , we can talk about making a commitment to Christ , we can talk about salvation , we can talk about conversion , the word , they 're not the important thing it 's this act of a new birth of receiving God in Christ for ourselves , believing that he died for us and are receiving this new life . |
| 4 | In our judgment it is this feature of the later history that has led to understandable confusion . |
| 5 | To an extent it is this explosion of the curriculum which has contributed to the moves towards a more standardised , coherent curriculum for our schools and to demands that teachers be subject to a system of appraisal . |