Example sentences of "this be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This is fast ground |
2 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
3 | This is both noun and adjective . |
4 | This is partly thanks to the free insurance provided by one of the World Cup sponsors and partly historical perspective . |
5 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
6 | This is surely arrogance on a pretty preposterous scale . |
7 | This is probably number one . |
8 | This is again money that the health authority provides , it is agreed within joint collaborative committee , consisting of health , er , the County Council , the District Councils , and voluntary bodies . |
9 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
10 | And all this is just part of a programme that seeks to help women help themselves . |
11 | Basically , this is just Chrissie singing Jon And Vangelis ' ‘ State Of Independence ’ over a trippy , drippy background of psychedelic knob twirling . |
12 | The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb . |
13 | The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb . |
14 | Erm the way that we see it is that I would appraise Kevin , Bill and Cath , initially and that , oh this is just York 's is n't it ? |
15 | This is just woodwork . |
16 | Yeah but yours is drug induced , this is just beauty and , and love your neighbour . |
17 | This is urrently beta testing in the US . |
18 | This is also communication , and it affects others , too , automatically , whether we or they are conscious of it or not . |
19 | As pointed out by Chesher ( 1984 ) , this is also White 's ( 1983 ) Information Matrix test for misspecification . |
20 | It can end in silence , this being considered preferable to choosing an incorrect word or phrase , and this is clearly nonsense . |
21 | This is clearly part of the story , but there is another , perhaps more subtle , way of understanding such mobility . |
22 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
23 | In a mild form this is simply boastfulness , buagun , a term whose root can also mean simply ‘ lying ’ . |
24 | This is simply nonsense but , nevertheless , it has been used within the Labour Party to block discussion of organisation in Northern Ireland . |
25 | This is simply nonsense . |
26 | Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari . |
27 | in some areas there is a specialist home nursing service for the terminally ill and this is sometimes part of the services of a hospice ( these are usually called Continuing Care or MacMillan nurses ) . |
28 | This is truly land 's end . |
29 | This is obviously fantasy rather than fact . |
30 | This is obviously nonsense . |