Example sentences of "[be] this [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas conceptual art chooses to break the link between art and craft , it is this link that any painting re-enacts . |
| 2 | So central is this standard that each layer will be the subject of focussed study . |
| 3 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 4 | So good is this solution that many visitors only recognise the change of angle when viewing the Gallery from the top of the Duomo . |
| 5 | So satisfactory was this knowledge that many people were content with nothing else . |
| 6 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |