Example sentences of "[be] this [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 2 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 3 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |
| 4 | ISABEL KOPROWSKI ( managing editor , For Women ) : ‘ There 's always been this patronizing idea that women do n't want to see pictures of men 's penises . |
| 5 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 6 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 7 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |
| 8 | ‘ Why is it , do you think , that there 's been this incredible reaction to Phar Lap 's death ? ’ asks the reporter : ‘ After all , he was just a horse . ’ |
| 9 | Although I 'm sure that has a lot to do with the way I listen , Louis Armstrong being this all-time winner and happy guy . ’ |
| 10 | He suggested that when subjects know to expect verbal stimuli , attentional mechanisms prime the left hemisphere for reception of this material and it is this attentional bias , rather than any inherent perceptual advantage , which gives rise to the right hemifield superiority in word and letter recognition typically obtained with unilateral stimulus presentation . |
| 11 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 12 | It is this increased amount of aluminium that may damage the heart by interfering with its electrical activities . |
| 13 | It is this increased rate of destruction of red cells which is the primary cause of the anaemia which characterises this group of disorders . |
| 14 | contortionist here are , quite like this , here it is this disgusting baby food you get , ugh |
| 15 | On the walk to the next tee , I nodded to Derek Jefferson and asked : ‘ When is this famous putter going into production ? ’ |
| 16 | is this extensive egotism preferable to the scheme of collective improvement drawn up by good songs ? |
| 17 | Tt and I think we 've identified in a number of different factors erm er behind that , that trend and that erm i in a sense there 's , there 's the kind of distinction between the ideological approach and the pragmatic approach in that we , we 've seen there is a , I think a , a broad ideological impetus behind the reform in the sense that there is this long-term commitment to overthrowing feudalism . |
| 18 | But is this triple message , taken home by the Paraclete in the apostolic mission , not precisely what the Johannine Christ proclaims throughout the Gospel , and particularly in a passage like 9:35- 41 ? |
| 19 | That there is this mutual entailment with respect to the two members of each pair is , or is intimately connected with , the proposition that the two conditionals state the same fact of connection between two things in the world . |
| 20 | erm The trouble about the tropical forest is this tremendous variation from place to place , the conditions are totally different in different places , although the forest is similar in that it 's got large numbers of different species of trees and flora and fauna . |
| 21 | ‘ When I opened in Vegas and I sang ‘ Goldfinger ’ , they all said , ‘ Why is this black girl singing a white girl 's song ? ’ |
| 22 | ' Is this real crocodile skin ? ’ she asked . |
| 23 | So why is this international superstar of the scrummage , who I agree is a household name and all that ( although he is known even in the next village as either Whatsit ? or Thingymabob ) , suddenly being advised he has the ( to coin a phrase ) clout and muscle to alter the long-established formulas and ethics of sports journalism ? |
| 24 | ‘ How long is this ridiculous charade going to continue ? ’ she demanded . |
| 25 | ‘ What is this ridiculous talk of going blind ? ’ |
| 26 | Okay , so there , there is this strategic argument . |
| 27 | What is this world-shaking announcement you have to make ? " |
| 28 | We need not wait for evil to swoop out of the cosmos or ascend from the depths of hell : it is here now , not incarnate in human form but embodied in the structures and philosophies of our modern culture.l It is this contemporary culture with which we must grapple and fight . |
| 29 | Not only is this mild rebuke the typical response made by the inspectorate , but it is even the usual response to firms detected three or more times ; for these , the rate of prosecution was still only 3. 5 per cent ! |
| 30 | Just 15 minutes drive from the airport is this modern firstclass hotel . |