Example sentences of "be [adj] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 'll be dry this evening and for much of the night , but the cloud 's going to thicken and there could be a few spots of light rain over high ground by dawn . |
| 2 | BRITISH motorists must be grateful this festive time to three ladies who will not see a Christmas day lunch . |
| 3 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 4 | Somebody fast asleep in bed there , that 's just what I 'd like to be right this minute . |
| 5 | It wo n't be right this month either . |
| 6 | It wo n't be right this month either , but if that 's the case |
| 7 | She had reason to be depressed this time . |
| 8 | ‘ I refuse to be depressed this evening , ’ he said firmly . |
| 9 | And there 's been quite a bit of success in in that area both of the newspaper companies er , are doing better than last year and er Longmans for instance expect er expect their operating cash flow erm their working capital rather to be lower this year than last year by by year end . |
| 10 | I do n't think it 's gon na be possible this week but perhaps in the Easter holidays erm |
| 11 | ‘ Some of these poor bastards wo n't be alive this time tomorrow , Piper . ’ |
| 12 | He schemed to be proclaimed Emperor , but as long as Menelik was known to be alive this was impossible . |
| 13 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 14 | You 'll be eight this year |
| 15 | Despite aggressive cost cutting , however , it believes a weak business environment will make it difficult for the company to be profitable this year . |
| 16 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 17 | nice to know somebody 's going to be polite this morning |
| 18 | ‘ The dry set is going to be popular this year — it 's fast and achieves the look of the 90's . |
| 19 | And you may well be embarrassed this year too , though not because of the violin solo . |
| 20 | It must be rheumatic this in here ooh god it hurts . |
| 21 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 22 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ Why should n't it be different this time ? ’ |
| 24 | Another member of the audience asked , ‘ What would be different this time around as we went through a similar identity crisis 5 or so years ago . ’ |
| 25 | What will be different this time next year ? |
| 26 | And he knew that she might be free this very night , free to fly where no man could cage her . |
| 27 | gosh Oh this should be interesting this is from the A A erm travelling abroad you know |
| 28 | Brekkypoos still got ten more I 'll have to be careful this does n't oh it 's hot in here Jean is n't it ? |
| 29 | fact it might be apposite this year to suggest to them that they might like to introduce one or other of the things that we were looking at in there . |
| 30 | I 'll be thirty-one this year . ’ |