Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This is Japan after all ; part of the mystery , and so on .
2 This is Portrush at its toughest ’ smiled Hutton .
3 This is Mentmore in Buckinghamshire , built in 1852–54 by Sir Joseph Paxton ( designer of the Crystal Palace ) for Baron Meyer Amschel de Rothschild .
4 This is July of 1816 ? ’
5 This is Antonio by the way .
6 This is Eno on the jagged tip , stabbing bits of broken glass into funk , jazz , electro , world and otherworld , to produce a sonic mutation clearly ahead of its time .
7 This is Eno on the jagged tip , stabbing bits of broken glass into funk , jazz , electro , world and other-world to produce a sonic mutation clearly ahead of its time .
8 And Jane , this is Jane to me the other day , throw your kitten off my floor and see if it lands on its feet .
9 This is Dorothy on a rival programme three years ago looking rather different .
10 This is Edinburgh after all . ’
11 This is England at its most picturesque , at its most idyllically pastoral .
12 Relaxed and enchanting — this is Italy at its sunniest . ’
13 This is Harding in crusader 's hat .
14 This is America at home , ’ Moran boasted .
15 Forget about kimonos , this is Tokyo of today .
16 This is Dahl at his most inventive and least violent best .
17 This is Carlson to Security HQ .
18 third nineteen eighty nine , this is Margaret with Jo Ellen in the home of Nan , Glasgow .
19 The doctor who was advertising himself this is Mr from Northfield , the doctor who was advertising the cure for baldness is going bald himself , so obviously the cure is n't working .
20 This is Brahms at his most radiant and affecting , music of such intimacy that one is not surprised to learn that its suitability for public performance was questioned .
21 This is Arsenal around here ! ’
22 This is Tony with his camera .
23 Right , so yes , do that one this is what this is Dublin to Cork ?
24 In the first place , this is Pound at his most old-fashioned .
25 At a comparatively low energy density excited neutral He atoms give rise to quite strong emission of He(I) lines , of which by far the strongest is He(Ia) at 58·4 nm ( 21·22 eV ) , corresponding to the electronic transition .
26 This was Africa at its wildest !
27 So this was London at last , and nothing gave me more pleasure than strolling around my new possession all day .
28 This was Ian by the way .
29 This was Inez in her early twenties , before she became the mother of Matthew 's children .
30 This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt .
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