Example sentences of "be this [noun] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 2 | It is this conviction that led her to team up with the Plenary Foundation for Uruguayan Women to launch a multi-media project on the subject of women , mental health and sexuality . |
| 3 | And it is this struggle that showed us a way . |
| 4 | Wimpey Environmental has built its reputation on the quality of its measurement work , and it is this element that distinguishes us from our rivals . |
| 5 | It is this quality that gives them the semblance of life ! |
| 6 | It is this quality that makes it a commitment type of love which is discerning but not discriminating or demanding . |
| 7 | It is this balance that keeps it authentic . ’ |
| 8 | It was this question that decided me . |
| 9 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 10 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 11 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 12 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 13 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 14 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 15 | It was this pressure that led it into war in 1967 . |
| 16 | She rather thought that Charles knew what she knew , and it was this suspicion that prompted what was , for her , an early departure . |
| 17 | It was this certainty that made her the leader . |
| 18 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 19 | And it was this beauty that constituted its truth long before experiments could be made to prove it . |
| 20 | It was this condition that brought him close to his parishioners . |
| 21 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 22 | Nevertheless it was this group that determined which records would be played on request programmes . |
| 23 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |