Example sentences of "[be] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it be worth this pain ? |
| 2 | It would be during this period that those first stirrings of mental activity in the mind of primitive man which were ruthless evolution , were having a profound effect on the development of his mind , long before he was able to give practical effect to them . |
| 3 | Yeah could be off this pork farm , oh no he 'd kee he 'd breed partridge not pheasant would n't he ? |
| 4 | If Fen thought she had no other attachments , she 'd be off this boat in double quick time . |
| 5 | If the defendants should succeed in such an application , upon the ground that a verdict and judgment for libel in favour of the council , as a local government authority , would constitute a breach of article 10 , it would be for this country to decide whether to leave the law as it would , on that hypothesis , have been declared to be , or to change it to avoid the risk of repetition . |
| 6 | Mm , well it will only be for this session anyway , movement ? |
| 7 | It may be for this reason that Yugoslav official statistics of trade are frequently expressed in terms of dollars or , strictly speaking , in ‘ statistical ’ dollars . |
| 8 | It may be for this reason that governments committed to full employment are likely to allow the money supply to rise when faced with excessive wage claims or with rising import prices in the economy . |
| 9 | ( It may be for this reason that all South Met. |
| 10 | It is not completely clear what the predictions of the literature on arousal and memory would be for this task . |
| 11 | He wanted to be through this valley . |
| 12 | One fun way will be through this year 's Bikethons … |
| 13 | Answers will be through this column only . |
| 14 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |
| 15 | A general deformation will not be of this type and we need to know the change in volume in such a case . |
| 16 | Jim Oulton , GMB branch secretary , said : ‘ We knew the company was in difficulty but we did not think things were this bad or the cuts would be of this magnitude . ’ |
| 17 | 3. it will be understood by its observers to be of this character . |
| 18 | How glad we were soon to be of this memory . |
| 19 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 20 | The underlying pattern in modern societies may be of this kind too ( Becker 1981 ) . |
| 21 | Much teacher-training material currently being produced tends to be of this kind . |
| 22 | The new developments in information skills are still primarily research-led and because of the slowness of dissemination and take-up of work based on research it is not clear what the impact will be of this work on library practice . |
| 23 | Other possible configurations , which will not , however , be discussed here at any length , are doublets ( exemplified by pairs of opposites — see chapters 9 , 10 and 11 ) , and clusters , which are groupings of lexical items characterised by a lack of structure ( some groups of synonyms appear to be of this nature — see chapter 12 ) . |
| 24 | Only 0–40 per cent of pentads should turn out to be of this length or less in this context , so that the expected number of pentads like Saintbury is only about 0–0040 × 0–042 = 0–00017 — which is certainly significant at the 1 per cent level . |
| 25 | On a single syllable ‘ why ’ , the pitch movement might be of this sort : but if there are syllables following , the fall may not be completed on the tonic syllable : why did you go |
| 26 | Er and so joining the erm would , would be like this County Council now feeling prior to , to the hunts and various other things in the County . |
| 27 | and Miller does not appear to be against this type of revenge . |
| 28 | She would have to be with this boy . |
| 29 | How secure would a job be with this company ? |
| 30 | There should be with this note the following documents : |