Example sentences of "[be] a [noun sg] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if you 're a boxing fan this is the sort of video that you would enjoy , now it 's a boxing question , name the three world heavyweight champions that currently hold titles . |
| 2 | That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value . |
| 3 | ‘ If there 'd been a way to avoid this mess , we 're experienced enough in the business to have spotted it ! ’ |
| 4 | Henley I 'm told are a team transformed this season , is that down to Clive Woodward ? |
| 5 | After all the signatures were collected for the petition it would be a pity to lose this service as well . |
| 6 | So when I got back to Boston I thought , ‘ God , there must be a way to do this live , ’ so I called up Lexicon and said , ‘ I 'm this guitar player … ’ and they gave me one ! |
| 7 | He would not go into detail on what he called ‘ sensitive issues and sensitive talks ’ but said : ‘ I would be a fool to hinder this by insisting on a cricket tour . ’ |
| 8 | It would be a mistake to dismiss this , as Selma G. Lanes ( 1981 , p.47 ) appears to do when she writes of ‘ mere graphic decoration ’ . |
| 9 | But it would be a mistake to see this new personal spirituality of the West as a preliminary ‘ protest ’ against the institutional power of the Catholic Church . |
| 10 | Oliver went on : ‘ He does n't need to be a linguist to concoct this . |
| 11 | You need to be a mathematician to sort this bugger out . |
| 12 | It would be a shame to let this go without some sort of show . ’ |
| 13 | Since the traditional extended family network seems to be playing less and less of a role in supporting the young parent there may well be a need to substitute this source of information , advice and emotional support . |
| 14 | We fully support and endorse the deposit greenbelt boundaries , then I think it 's inescapable that at at some point that is going to lead us to leapfrogging over the greenbelt boundary , at some stage during the the the plan period , there may well be sufficient erm commitment and identified sites to mop up in in the short term , but by the end of of the plan period it 's it 's my belief that there will be a need to address this issue by bringing forward proposals for a new settlement , er which obviously Selby district er full fully supports . |
| 15 | ‘ It must be a headache running this place , ’ Otley said . |
| 16 | There will be an opportunity to see this when he holds an Open Day in aid of charity in the Spring . |
| 17 | Because of the high risk of Gram positive infections ( unrealted to invasive procedures such as abdominal paracentesis ) and in particular pneumococcal infection there may be an indication to give this group of patients pneumococcal vaccination . |
| 18 | Erm and basically what it is is it 's a government sponsored this er which erm well the rules may have changed cos they 're always changing the rules of these things . |
| 19 | Lot of marks going for it , dead ea And again it 's a s it 's a joy to do this sort is n't it . |
| 20 | And that 's a shot see this part under here is Maria 's under part where the cellar cellar goes down no and yeah , that 's No . |
| 21 | There 's a slot to fill this week , another one to fill next week and so on . ’ |
| 22 | Hang on , there 's a car coming this way . |
| 23 | You 've got to take your mind off this horrible business somehow and it 's a sin to waste this glorious weather . ’ |
| 24 | Marian Page , of Keep Death Off Our Roads , said : ‘ It seems there is a law to protect this drink-driver but not his little victim . |
| 25 | ‘ But there is a way to break this down , to dissolve it — oh yes indeed — to unlock the Motive Force . |
| 26 | Second , instead of continuing with the constitutional convention whereby the Prime Minister has the right to choose a government and a Cabinet , there is a concern to transfer this to Members of Parliament when Labour is in office , giving them the right to elect Cabinet ministers . |
| 27 | There is a temptation to construe this by saying that the subject therefore has the concept of a mother , hamburger , or whatever . |
| 28 | What follows is a table outlining this : |
| 29 | There is a need to make this kind of distinction in sociology also . |
| 30 | There is a need to study this inter-relationship within our larger understanding of , and responsibility towards , both nature and culture in the context of our faith . |