Example sentences of "this be [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is precisely the situation used in our telephone work , and the dialogues resulting from this are of a different nature . |
| 2 | It may be that different accounting treatments lead to different ways of calculating cost ; this is to a considerable extent mitigated by accounting standards but can not be totally ruled out . |
| 3 | They fall squarely into the category requiring prevention but long-term effects of one offence , if this is of a minor nature , are far from inevitable . |
| 4 | This is on a dangerous bend where pedestrians have to walk on the carriageway . |
| 5 | This is on a square plan and dates from the ninth century . |
| 6 | However , all this is at a given level of effort ; the final stage of the manager 's problem is On equating this first-order condition to zero , using result ( 4.8 ) that unc we have : unc hence |
| 7 | An effective way to do this is with a peel-off paint stripper . |
| 8 | The expert way to do this is with a trained eye inspecting visually from the roof and fire opening , followed by a test using a special smoke-producing pellet to check for leaks . |
| 9 | This is for a moderate rate of descent . |
| 10 | This is for a straight lecture , you know sometimes people stand up to give you a lecture . |
| 11 | And this is for a terraced houses that used pay thirty five to forty pound a year . |
| 12 | ‘ This is for a sick relative , ’ I told him . |
| 13 | This is about a young boy who is trying to avoid going to the dentists so he comes up with a series of excuses to give his mother . |
| 14 | There are too many schools where the ‘ management style ’ approaches this extreme , even if this is as a perceived necessity forced upon an unwilling or unwitting head/governing body by the pressures and pace of change . |
| 15 | The point is only that this is as a direct result of the accounting method adopted rather than any policy decision . |
| 16 | This is despite a tiny cellar which means deliveries are made up to five times a week . |
| 17 | This is despite a major reduction in the proportion of calls performed by deputising services , the use of which had been said to be the main factor increasing the numbers of night visits . |
| 18 | This is despite a stinking row after the perfume industry cut off supplies to Superdrug for slashing scent prices by nearly a third . |
| 19 | This is in a fine state of preservation and still retains two male figures carved in the tufa forming the head of the side parapets of the auditorium ( 147 and PLATE 19 ) . |
| 20 | But this is in a different league from a full-size Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 21 | We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton . |
| 22 | And he read this this P R and he said this is from a junior minister , Conservative minister in nineteen eighty four wro wrote these words in a book and he says that up and coming Conservative young minister was none other than |
| 23 | This is from a Christian Aid Week publication called God of the Fair Measure which is obtainable from Christian Aid if people want . |
| 24 | Sometimes this is within a light-hearted context , a move from jesting about love to declaring a more serious passion . |
| 25 | ‘ Something should have been done immediately given this is near a residential area and there are a lot of children around . |
| 26 | Erm this is like a new sweater . |
| 27 | This was despite a strong sense that the man was unduly anxious about the outcome of his overture : anxiety is a great destroyer of response , and Frederica had no taste for being closed in a sleeping compartment with a worried man . |
| 28 | This was despite a brave effort from all the Derry stalwarts like Liam O'Donnell , Peter Smyth , Barry Goodman , Aidan Tighe , Paddy Duffy , Philip Coll and Robert Cooper . |
| 29 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 30 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |