Example sentences of "be this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 2 | He was aware of a slow feeling of triumph , a sense of release as if he had just won some physical competition ; without the fear there would n't have been this strange sense of excitement and content . |
| 3 | ISABEL KOPROWSKI ( managing editor , For Women ) : ‘ There 's always been this patronizing idea that women do n't want to see pictures of men 's penises . |
| 4 | Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone . |
| 5 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why is it , do you think , that there 's been this incredible reaction to Phar Lap 's death ? ’ asks the reporter : ‘ After all , he was just a horse . ’ |
| 7 | Although I 'm sure that has a lot to do with the way I listen , Louis Armstrong being this all-time winner and happy guy . ’ |
| 8 | He suggested that when subjects know to expect verbal stimuli , attentional mechanisms prime the left hemisphere for reception of this material and it is this attentional bias , rather than any inherent perceptual advantage , which gives rise to the right hemifield superiority in word and letter recognition typically obtained with unilateral stimulus presentation . |
| 9 | Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable . |
| 10 | It is this increased amount of aluminium that may damage the heart by interfering with its electrical activities . |
| 11 | It is this increased rate of destruction of red cells which is the primary cause of the anaemia which characterises this group of disorders . |
| 12 | contortionist here are , quite like this , here it is this disgusting baby food you get , ugh |
| 13 | On the walk to the next tee , I nodded to Derek Jefferson and asked : ‘ When is this famous putter going into production ? ’ |
| 14 | is this extensive egotism preferable to the scheme of collective improvement drawn up by good songs ? |
| 15 | Tt and I think we 've identified in a number of different factors erm er behind that , that trend and that erm i in a sense there 's , there 's the kind of distinction between the ideological approach and the pragmatic approach in that we , we 've seen there is a , I think a , a broad ideological impetus behind the reform in the sense that there is this long-term commitment to overthrowing feudalism . |
| 16 | But is this triple message , taken home by the Paraclete in the apostolic mission , not precisely what the Johannine Christ proclaims throughout the Gospel , and particularly in a passage like 9:35- 41 ? |
| 17 | That there is this mutual entailment with respect to the two members of each pair is , or is intimately connected with , the proposition that the two conditionals state the same fact of connection between two things in the world . |
| 18 | erm The trouble about the tropical forest is this tremendous variation from place to place , the conditions are totally different in different places , although the forest is similar in that it 's got large numbers of different species of trees and flora and fauna . |
| 19 | ‘ When I opened in Vegas and I sang ‘ Goldfinger ’ , they all said , ‘ Why is this black girl singing a white girl 's song ? ’ |
| 20 | ' Is this real crocodile skin ? ’ she asked . |
| 21 | So why is this international superstar of the scrummage , who I agree is a household name and all that ( although he is known even in the next village as either Whatsit ? or Thingymabob ) , suddenly being advised he has the ( to coin a phrase ) clout and muscle to alter the long-established formulas and ethics of sports journalism ? |
| 22 | ‘ How long is this ridiculous charade going to continue ? ’ she demanded . |
| 23 | ‘ What is this ridiculous talk of going blind ? ’ |
| 24 | Okay , so there , there is this strategic argument . |
| 25 | What is this world-shaking announcement you have to make ? " |
| 26 | We need not wait for evil to swoop out of the cosmos or ascend from the depths of hell : it is here now , not incarnate in human form but embodied in the structures and philosophies of our modern culture.l It is this contemporary culture with which we must grapple and fight . |
| 27 | Not only is this mild rebuke the typical response made by the inspectorate , but it is even the usual response to firms detected three or more times ; for these , the rate of prosecution was still only 3. 5 per cent ! |
| 28 | Just 15 minutes drive from the airport is this modern firstclass hotel . |
| 29 | Is this modern training necessary I asked Joe . |
| 30 | Is this normal behaviour ? |