Example sentences of "this [adv] be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparently was a night for a lot of ‘ firsts ’ . |
| 2 | mhm Well I mean this obviously is a decision is it not for the military commanders ? |
| 3 | In fact , in this company division , cost-accounting had in recent years become pre-eminently a pre-investment activity , but this obviously was a function of the nature of the business . |
| 4 | But when you actually put them all together , and and recognize the traffic flows , and the location of the nearby school and the shopping centre and on one or two other things , that at the end of the day this perhaps is a site where tt er full barriers and and C C T V might be more appropriate . |
| 5 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 6 | And was this a would this be a man that would do this or would this just be a boy ? |
| 7 | we 're going to do this anyway is a way through indirectly rather than confrontational which might be a male aggressive sort of behaviour . |
| 8 | This once was a track , a few years back , |
| 9 | Backing all this up is a studio system that churns out ‘ stars ’ for Televisa 's bland pop-music programmes and melodramatic but successful soap operas ( which are watched as far away as China and Russia ) . |
| 10 | Criminals were thus in some sense public benefactors ( this clearly being a case where crime does pay ! ) . |
| 11 | How she worked this out was a mystery to Henry , since her mother 's role in Elinor 's life was confined to twice-yearly visits in which she sat in their front room and listened to Elinor telling her how awful Henry was . |
| 12 | This really is a bit like the Inquisition . |
| 13 | This really is a farce and the Government needs to do something about it . ’ |
| 14 | This really is a farce and the Government needs to do something about it . ’ |
| 15 | And Kylie , after two years travelling the world and using England as a base realises for the first time , this really is a home from home . |
| 16 | Mary Jane says she enjoys things that bring back memories and this really is a home where every object tells a story . |
| 17 | This really is a must for any rugby fan . |
| 18 | This really is a non-song . |
| 19 | Before you yawn , this really is a program with a difference — it 's aimed at people like me , who could n't draw a raffle . |
| 20 | Rather than spoil the fun I 'll content myself by saying that this really is a flight of fancy even fantasy and one that , questioning our all-too-ready acceptance of linear perspective , makes this whole adventure very worthwhile . |
| 21 | Before you end , a few minutes , er , Mr President , I wonder if I can just say , er , that you may remember , this really is a matter arising , but you may remember that , at the last meeting , of , of , the Annual General Meeting of N C V O , er , my organisation , the National Federation of Community Organisations was was bold enough to propose a resolution other than , than those required , and it is in your Minutes , if you have them . |
| 22 | I , I do support it , but this really was a case here , where people were a little naughty when this was originally built . |
| 23 | But this really was a bum day for Liverpool as Cantona won the ball in the air from Gary McAllister 's free-kick , and the Frenchman reacted quickest when the ball bounced off Wallace . |
| 24 | This surely was a mistake . |
| 25 | This then is a ragbag of pieces , some still to be performed out loud , which I have n't collected together till now . |
| 26 | This indeed is a task for the ethological evolutionist concerned to understand humanity . |
| 27 | This indeed was a factor in hastening the decay of villeinage , because a man who was free would not wish to incur servile obligations if he took possession of land which had hitherto been burdened with them . |
| 28 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 29 | Erm I am confident that Eurofighter are grasping the thorny problem now in a very businesslike way and er are making the individual partner companies fully accountable for the systems for which they have design responsibility and this again is a aspect of the renegotiation of the contract which we think is very important and we 're determined that er this will happen . |
| 30 | This again is a strategy to be pursued only by those with considerable financial sophistication . |