Example sentences of "this [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So would this be just a a this hearse be just a black cart with glass and then a hood ? |
| 2 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 3 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 4 | Growth follows the direction of the arrow — perhaps to meet the other half-span if this were truly a bridge . |
| 5 | When the National Curriculum was first unveiled , in the shape of Mr Baker 's celebrated ‘ Little Red Book ’ , I wrote a piece which began : ‘ If this were genuinely a consultative document , I should reply to its chief begetter that 20 per cent of it is potentially helpful , 20 per cent unexceptionable , and 60 per cent either foolish or dangerous or both ’ . |
| 6 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 7 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 8 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 9 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 10 | If this were indeed the whole truth about anorexia nervosa , it would be a straightforward medical problem , and therefore comparatively simple to resolve . |
| 11 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 12 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 13 | Throughout the activities , the children will be expected to develop both general skills in ( say ) researching material , working in groups , managing their own learning , and specific skills in understanding history — this being primarily a history-focused topic . |
| 14 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 15 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
| 16 | Here in the UK we are used to major variations in water chemistry from area to area despite this being only a small country ; the huge Amazon system , however , consists generally of soft and acid waters . |
| 17 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 18 | This is self-consciously an escapist activity , its main value being that it avoids the careful budgeting and penny-counting which shopping itself entails . |
| 19 | This is evidently a fascinating line of enquiry with which to approach Nizan " communist novels . |
| 20 | This is evidently the most general form of C. Postmultiplication by A yields B in the form |
| 21 | This is rarely a problem for dating an archaeological site where fragments of broken pottery tend to abound , and it is usual to date several sherds from the same context to provide an average age and better precision . |
| 22 | But this is rarely the case . |
| 23 | It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case . |
| 24 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 25 | This is rarely the case with the reviews published in Early music or Gramophone , some of whose reviewers have served as musicological advisers for prominent recording projects both in Europe and in England . |
| 26 | This is traditionally a standard feature of story-telling , and may well derive from the oral tradition where the story-teller would switch from a narrative role to a dramatic one . |
| 27 | And that 's why this is traditionally the area where British bikers have broken into the world of continental racing . |
| 28 | This is traditionally the most important day in the marching calendar for the Orange order . |
| 29 | The Secretary of State has argued that this is nearly a four percent increase . |
| 30 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |