Example sentences of "this be the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Among the reasons for this are the continued creation of neologisms , the introduction of foreign words and the vast array of proper nouns that exist .
2 Examples of this are the phonetic information and the etymological descriptions of words .
3 Examples of this are the combined 1993 Dairy Range due for launch this summer and a strategic review of the business ' I.T .
4 One might alternatively suggest that a single standard driving schema exists and deviations from this are the appropriate measure rather than deviations from junction specific expectations .
5 There are times when understated architectural solutions like this are the right ones .
6 Examples of this are the brief discussion of Free Indirect Speech , and the extensive investigation of turn-taking in popfiction in a vein similar to that of Conversation Analysis .
7 Exceptions to this are the Linguistic String Project ( Sager , 1981 ) which had a lexical coverage of about 10,000 words ( although many of these are specialist medical terms ) ; the CLAWS system ( Leech et al , 1983 ) ( Atwell , 1983 ) ( Atwell et al 1984 ) used to tag the LOB corpus had a lexicon of approximately 7,200 words plus a 670 SUFFIXLIST which added word-tags to most other words ; IBM 's CRITIQUE ( formerly EPISTLE ) system ( Heidorn et al , 1982 ) with a lexicon of approximately 100,000 words and the Alvey Natural Language Tools ( ANLT ) ( Carroll & Grover , 1989 ) , an early version of which contained a lexicon of nearly 7,000 morphemes ( probably about 20,000 words ) .
8 The only people who really benefit from this are the larger companies that enjoy the benefits of both an informal workforce and government grants , loans and subsidies .
9 Added to this are the high repetition and drop-out rates .
10 In English , the most obvious examples of this are the cliched openings of jokes like ‘ Have you heard the one about the … ? ’ or personal anecdotes : ‘ Listen !
11 Witness to this are the large numbers worldwide who came to Glasgow to work with him and who are now distinguished practitioners in their own right .
12 Had this been the only evidence of any religious aspect of Chedworth , one could have considered the nymphaeum merely as an unusual feature .
13 Had this been the only ground of complaint , their Lordships might have reached a different conclusion on the appeal .
14 A tiny alarm bell rang at the back of my head : could this be the classic distraction trick that comes just before a robbery ?
15 Why should the working-class housewife say she ‘ likes ’ or ‘ does n't mind ’ housework — why should this be the typical response ?
16 ‘ Will this be the first time you 've worked in theatre ? ’
17 Would this be the local General Commissioners , or those responsible for the area in which the property is situated ?
18 Would this be the worst case scenario or the best case scenario ?
19 Would this be the top hard seam ?
20 Can this be the same tragic Lady Rothermere at whose inquest it was revealed had a stash of 2,000 pills lying round her French villa , who refused to travel abroad unless accompanied by massive quantities of prescribed drugs and who was so exhilarated by her fast-moving lifestyle she could only survive the small hours by swallowing incautious numbers of sleeping tablets ?
21 Can this be the same company whose scientist 's opinion was only 2 years ago that ‘ … native structure is required for an HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein to be a successful vaccine antigen ’ ?
22 Could this be the same Conservative Celebrity Cookbook that is being remaindered some would say almost given away in Dresser 's ?
23 So will this be the last re-organisation ?
24 ‘ Well , let this be the last time .
25 Ohmigod , can this be the big one ?
26 Could this be the secret passageway to the Litani , groined by the forces of Christendom to escape from their ancient predicament ?
27 The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found .
28 The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant .
29 After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection .
30 He glanced at her , wondering if this were the first she had heard of the proposal .
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