Example sentences of "this [be] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could this be the reason why , at times , when we are compiling a good catch , the fish suddenly go off ; as suddenly as switching off an electric light ? |
| 2 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 3 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 4 | If this were the case then within an individual junction we would expect risk related information to be best remembered for risky exemplars and peripheral information to be best remembered for the less risky exemplars . |
| 5 | It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in making , conforming enlarging , restraining , abrogating , repealing , reviving , and expounding of laws , concerning matters of all possible denominations , ecclesiastical or temporal , civil , military , or criminal : this being the place where that absolute despotic power , which must in all governments reside somewhere , is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms . |
| 6 | Yet this is a ability rather than a benefit , and on these grounds the trust can not be held to be valid . |
| 7 | This is a description then , of the adapters and innovators . |
| 8 | This is a scheme whereby unemployed people who require to learn new skills or brush up former skills are placed with an employer for an agreed period of time to achieve those skills . |
| 9 | And this is a chart where this was activity down here and time along there . |
| 10 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 11 | Opera buffs may revel in the music and enjoy the backstage back-biting but this is a plot too sprawling and undisciplined even for Wagner . |
| 12 | I feel , personally this is a pity now we 're coming into Europe and er trying to be international , but I 'm sure there was a very good reason for it , and I sh , I should like to know what it was . |
| 13 | This is a notion often based in part upon perceptions of what is happening or is felt to have already happened in other countries , and the most widely used comparison is drawn with the USA in mind . |
| 14 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Notwithstanding the general need to protect journalistic sources , ’ he said , ‘ this is a case where the balance comes down in favour of disclosure . ’ |
| 16 | But this is a case where long imprisonment is needed not just as a punishment , but to protect society . |
| 17 | And equally in our new case we can say that your belief is unjustified because nothing you can point to suggests that this is a case where your belief is true rather than one of the ( admittedly rarer but still ) indistinguishable ( to you ) cases where it is false . |
| 18 | This is a case where there is no lawful basis whatever for any demand of tax to be made by the revenue . |
| 19 | On a consideration of all the evidence and having regard to the matters to which section 10(9) enjoins us to have particular regard , I am fully satisfied that this is a case where we should exercise our discretion so as to refuse leave . |
| 20 | Secondly and/or alternatively , it is argued that even if this is a case where the conventional Cyanamid principles fall to be applied , the mother 's claim to interlocutory relief falls at the first hurdle , namely the establishment of an arguable prima facie case . |
| 21 | She looks a little to her right , and this is a case where the even classical features are somehow charged with meaning . |
| 22 | But this is a case where the stratigraphical wood can not be seen for the nomenclatural trees . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ I think this is a case where I should issue a bench warrant for Ms Dunne 's arrest . ’ |
| 24 | He said : ‘ This is a case where the arguments of one lobby group have won over another 's . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ This is a case where painstaking analysis of all the evidence points to the defendant . ’ |
| 26 | This is a theatre not a barrack room . |
| 27 | This is a take away , but we can treat it , take away three is the same as add minus three . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've a bit of old England here , ’ he says , and then , in the next breath , ‘ but this is a diocese very much on the move . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Does he know this is a museum now ? ’ he asked , and then walked over to a glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 30 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |