Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv prt] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the last thing in the world you 'd want would be to give up this opportunity Monsieur Verveine has given you . |
| 2 | Accepting that the body clock is slow to adjust to a time-zone transition , our aim must be to speed up this adjustment . |
| 3 | Dell and AST have apparently been working closely with Sunsoft , say sources , and might be a good bet for the mystery OEMs Sunsoft is to trot out this week . |
| 4 | If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid |
| 5 | That 's fine , now all we 've got to do is to tidy up this end of the halyard and tuck it out of the way . |
| 6 | afraid of woman 's power and the only way they know how to combat that is is to put out this kind of this hatred or or this misogyny in in the language in the way they behave towards women . |
| 7 | The anthropologist 's task is to map out this system , and , by using the tools of linguistic analysis , to draw up what one might call the grammar of the various cultures he encounters . |
| 8 | what the valency is to make up this formula you could do the same if it was if someone told you it was an some unknown So if it 's an unknown compound and I drip Let's say it was unknown compound and I dripped hydrochloric acid on and I got carbon dioxide given off yeah |
| 9 | It is doubtful that the Children 's Department could have made the series anyway , as one of Sydney Newman 's other shake-ups had been to wind down this Department , dispersing much of its talent throughout the rest of the Drama Group . |
| 10 | It said that he had a big problem he did n't want to bother me with , but that if anything happened to him , I was to pass on this envelope to you . |