Example sentences of "this be an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Programs such as this are an invaluable source of information and can be used time and time again . |
| 2 | Why might this be an advantage for the retailer ? |
| 3 | Could this be an old hippie pratfall ? |
| 4 | Not only would this be an effective riposte — ‘ Touché , ’ he might validly say on his release — but he would be safe in the reassuring knowledge that he need no longer worry about testicular cancer . |
| 5 | Nor should this be an excuse to try to carve up Genesis to fit a theory — about the evolution of religion or anything else . |
| 6 | Would this be an opportune time to suggest a move to help reduce the fragmentation of the industry ? |
| 7 | Or take pedestrians : again there 's a minority who step off kerbs without looking , or ‘ jay-walk ’ among the traffic , but would this be an argument against better facilities for pedestrians ? |
| 8 | ‘ Please , ’ she murmured as she climbed the steps to the fifth-floor Brooklyn Heights flat she 'd subleased for the summer , ‘ please , let this be an acceptance ! ’ |
| 9 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 10 | The green eyes were wide and considering , as though this were an aspect of him she had not considered before . |
| 11 | If this were an outline for a novel it would probably be rejected as too far-fetched . |
| 12 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 13 | Laura was only slightly worried by the adverse publicity but she was bitterly hurt , as if this were an attack on her personally . |
| 14 | The viable nations of Europe were constituted by a line of cultural or linguistic descent , without this being an overriding principle or implying complete ethnic homogeneity . |
| 15 | The Feathers Hotel is the principal inn , and was used on hiring days , as were most of the other original public houses , this being an agricultural area . |
| 16 | ( Needless to say , this being an English sport , only a minority of England 's counties belong to the championship — and , until very recently , none of the majority could ever hope to force its way in . ) |
| 17 | I think this being an old hag is what is all in the mind ! |
| 18 | The GLC was empowered by the Act to make grants to the LTE for any purpose ( section 3 ) and the GLC intended in this way to reimburse the LTE for the revenue lost by the fares reduction and so enable the LTE to balance its books , this being an obligation placed on the LTE ‘ so far as practicable ’ . |
| 19 | Martell have substantially increased the prize money for the race to give a total prize fund of about £175,000 , this being an increase f three per cent over the previous year . |
| 20 | There are some pointers to this being an accurate judgement , although the period for which wool and corn prices have been studied in detail does not go further back than 1490 , and therefore does not include what are probably the most serious years of enclosure ( 58 , p.183 ) . |
| 21 | The six fabliaux selected for summarizing here are , if in any way at all , only slightly untypical in being generally longer than average , this being an efficient way of conveying something of the range of what is to be found amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 22 | If , instead of ( 29 ) , I say ( 30 ) , then I direct you to pay particular attention and care to each of the operations involved in doing ( 29 ) , this being an implicature of the use of the longer expression : ( 29 ) Open the door ( 30 ) Walk up to the door , turn the door handle clockwise as far as it will go , and then pull gently towards you But perhaps the most important of the sub-maxims of Manner is the fourth , " be orderly " . |
| 23 | They 're hoping to get it for this being an international airport . |
| 24 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 25 | Though supported by the Cheltenham Group , this is an entirely solo effort , and all types of subject are covered . |
| 26 | This is an enlargement from an original fifteenth-century woodcut . |
| 27 | Yet for a work in a public square this is an interesting aspect of art criticism . |
| 28 | This is an aspect of description , while it can be suggested that other religious , political or social concerns are more properly matters of interpretation . |
| 29 | This is an author who has contributed to the Russia which has come after him — to the emergence there , at the present time , of the demand for a lawful Opposition , for the duality of democracy . |
| 30 | Remember that this is an intimate scene with Jessica , and you should identify her clearly throughout . |