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

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1 Dick and the spacecraft are for exploring this universe .
2 ‘ It could be worth contacting this colonel .
3 How sure can Virgin Atlantic be of winning this case do you think ?
4 His greatest use , he felt , would be in forging this connection , with the help of the agents he imagined were already in place in these countries , and developing it .
5 If nothing else , leadership is about building this basis ( Bartolme , 1989 ) .
6 ‘ Mr. Gould the author of the Birds of Europe is about leaving this country for New Holland , or as it is now called Australia .
7 It is worth remembering this point when we come to consider some responses to the Report .
8 It is worth pursuing this example .
9 As a user tip , it is worth doing this manipulation off the page otherwise the text is continually trying to re-format itself .
10 The Greeks strew their common thyme liberally all over roasted or kebabbed lamb , to its great enhancement , and it is worth applying this principle to all the cooking herbs .
11 Well , keep it down as low as you can because the lower you keep it , the less chance there is of getting this biopsy done .
12 No , keep it down as low as you can because , the lower you keep it the less chance of there is of getting this biopsy done .
13 It is in making this adjustment that the last generation of the Dedlocks particularly fails :
14 A ‘ Crime Audit ’ can tell you the scale and cost of crimes against your business and should also show how adequate or otherwise your existing security practice and management structure is in tackling this problem .
15 You see the only way we can get equity out and put money in ourselves is by selling this place .
16 I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . "
17 I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . "
18 It was like having this image of yourself being heated up and being sold as the new you or something .
19 Brazilian soccer was in mourning this week after a match which had commentators wailing about the worst game ever to be witnessed in the hallowed Maracana Stadium .
20 It was to building this basis that Lazarsfeld and his colleagues devoted much of their energies .
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