Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] be this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so impressed was this man by the occasion that , having lived away from Curry Rivel for many years , he returned late in life to be re-married there — because of his cherished memories of the village in all its beauty on the day ‘ Old Benny Titford ’ was buried . |
| 2 | So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years . |
| 3 | So secure is this home that once the female spider has built it , she never leaves it . |
| 4 | So secure was this control , I was told , that if a monkey in a red jacket was put up as a candidate it would be elected . |
| 5 | What the hon. Gentleman does not answer is this question : by putting up — |
| 6 | It may not have been this boy 's fault . ’ |
| 7 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 8 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 9 | Another important aspect of expandability is free expansion slots and the RSC is n't well endowed is this respect — after you 've fitted the network interface card , I/O card , video card and IDE cached host adaptor , you 're left with two 8-bit short slots and two 16-bit slots . |
| 10 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |