Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 of all grey geese identified in Sussex are of this species .
2 However , only about twenty per cent of residential homes in Flanders are of this type ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) .
3 Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled .
4 The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos .
5 Well no you 'll not get , cos I 'll take this in and say , look , can you just transfer two pound off Linda 's onto this .
6 I said very carefully , ‘ Yes , I do see that if your pal Richard is behind this he has put you in a corner .
7 Richard Dunwoody 's on this one .
8 Napoleon was at this time trying to push the Russians into war with Turkey , and Czartoryski , aware of this , had no wish to see Russia involved on Serbia 's side in a conflict with the sultan .
9 Charles Laughton was on this morning at nine twenty five .
10 Gorbachev was at this time on an official visit to West Germany , which was curtailed somewhat in view of domestic developments .
11 Richard Eaton was in this car .
12 I think most of England are on this adventure with me and a lot of Europeans , ’ said Mansell .
13 Such species as The Harlequin and Dwarf Rasbora are in this category .
14 FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS .
15 Mel Sterland were like this and there were no stoppin' ‘ im .
16 ‘ Waverly 's chairman of Housing and Benson 's chairman of Policy and Resources ; and Benson 's like this — ’ he made an expressive gesture ’ — with Fielding .
17 oh you missed Only Fools and Horses the other night , its the funniest one ever , its the one where Del was in this wine bar pretend to be a yuppy
18 As indicated above , it is possible to have an option on a future — indeed all of the options traded on LIFFE are of this variety .
19 ‘ The popular image of Satan is of this great evil force that can destroy anything , ’ explained a satanist adorned with the title of High Priest of the Northern Order of the Prince .
20 The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was of this kind , although the four explosions that took place at its climax were so stupendous that a separate type of eruption , the Krakatoan , is sometimes referred to .
21 She was amazed how much easier the tube journey to Mornington Crescent was at this time of the day .
22 ‘ I did n't know Mr Jacobsen was in this play until I arrived here today . ’
23 The pressure of events is pushing Lloyd 's in this direction .
24 Unigate and Allied Lyons have now joined Tarmac and Cadbury 's in this respect .
25 The United Kingdom is in this last category , the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs being the designated Central Authority .
26 Above all , the conducteur is prominent ; he is not telling the band to stop , since Duport is at this moment ‘ dancing lightly around the hero laid low . ’
27 Darren was in this privately run home for mentally handicapped children near Basingstoke .
28 It was empty , Jo was by this time awake ( having crept earlier to bed ) , but she did n't move for fear of her father 's anger interpreting his shouts of rage , she gathered that her mother was gone and realising what damage he could consequently do to her and her baby , she knew that she had to escape .
29 At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis .
30 D' you think the Raj was like this ? ’
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