Example sentences of "[coord] this [be] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hilary , ’ he broke in gently , ‘ you 're soaking wet , cold , upset , and this is neither the time nor the place , but there was a reason — ’ |
| 2 | No species is inviolate , else the individuals would live indefinitely — a soul forever entombed in the same body ; and this is not the purpose and meaning of life . |
| 3 | Moreover , the notion of corrigibility is itself suspect : strictly speaking , one can only correct an utterance when one knows what the speaker intended to say , and this is not the case with the specially constructed sentences used in semantic analysis . |
| 4 | Furthermore the elastic moduli of the polymer would be very high , as in a covalent crystal such as diamond , and this is not the case . |
| 5 | Fourthly , the dose-response relationship is not a direct one because one would expect that with increasing dose , a 100% yield of ulcer could be achieved , and this is not the case . |
| 6 | Such changes are hard to describe and this is not the place to discuss them . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't ask me ; and this is not the place to discuss it . ’ |
| 8 | And this is not the end of the story . |
| 9 | And this is not the end of the story . |
| 10 | the evidence that we 've found out already from C H C is that the operation of the N H S reforms has restrictive patient choice because crucially those referrals to London teaching hospitals which used to made as a matter of course if treatment is unable er , unavailable in Harlow have actually been largely stopped , I got the detailed figures from the purchasing director erm er , recently in the C F C minutes and it shows a miniscule number of patients being referred to London teaching hospitals erm , and this is clearly the reason as this points out in this paper that London teaching hospitals are in serious financial problems and four of them , indeed are being threatened with closure by the Tomlinson report and I think many patients in Harlow would much rather as er , people have pointed out , go to er , Middlesex and U C H , should they still exist than to go to Colchester and er , but this is this a key question , so on the the basis of the this consortium does n't meet those criticisms indeed , make the situation worse I move that we oppose it in principle that Vince reports on that line . |
| 11 | From this definition , assignments of choses in action are excluded and this is also the case with money . |
| 12 | At this stage in the play , Anderson displays concern not to infringe the Politeness Principle and this is also the case in scene eight . |
| 13 | And this is just the tip of the iceberg — the accident iceberg , that is . |
| 14 | and this is just the relative of the averages of prices weighted by base quantities , i.e. equivalent to a weighted version of method 2 . |
| 15 | But it is lang 's eclecticism that defines her career , and this is likewise the hallmark of many new country performers . |
| 16 | He agrees that the Conservative party preaches financial prudence and this is n't the kind of thing it should doing . |
| 17 | He agrees that the Conservative party preaches financial prudence and this is n't the kind of thing it should doing . |
| 18 | Modern English may be pensive about their comeback but they 're certainly not paranoid or precious about a few meagre errors , and this is when the fun really starts . |
| 19 | Goodness is such a property , perhaps ; and this is why the principle of universalizability has teeth in ethics . |
| 20 | We have yet to reach the position where sufficient students appreciate the import of underlying theory and this is why the geomorphologist reaches for his soil augur once theory is mentioned ( Chorley , 1978 ) and perhaps the situation will be resolved only when training in physical geography demands greater familiarity with scientific and mathematical methods and notation . |
| 21 | Sud ( now Aerospatiale ) was at the time a partner with Dassault and this is why the type certificate for the aircraft states " Dassault-Sud " . |
| 22 | Context and use are vital to our understanding of deixis , and this is why the investigation of its behaviour in a particular discourse is relevant . |
| 23 | They got an extra lot of teasing countryside management in conservation and this is why the countryside 's three most active guardians , the association , the and the Council 's protection of rural England are all strongly against breaking up of the forestry commission and selling off this land . |
| 24 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 25 | It is certain that bees are very responsive to different tones of the human voice , and this is probably the reason for the country belief that bees are peace-loving beings and will not stay with a quarrelsome family . |
| 26 | ‘ My own empirical self is becoming more important , ’ he wrote to Barfield , ‘ and this is exactly the opposite of self-love . ’ |
| 27 | In the end support staff act as information switches and this is exactly the sort of function that can be taken over by electronic data processing . |
| 28 | And this is exactly the quality which Wordsworth excels in . |
| 29 | Well , next morning we were cleaning silver in the butler 's pantry and the bell rang calling us to breakfast and this is where the fun began . |
| 30 | Looked at from the other side , it should be realized that blandly-flavoured foods reduced the strong and exotic taste of many herbs , and this is where the secret of using herbs in cooking lies — to use herbs in such quantities that the strength of their flavours balances the strength and flavour of the food to which they are added . |