Example sentences of "this be [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if all this were n't reason enough , there 's always the environment . |
| 2 | This is fast ground |
| 3 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 4 | This is both noun and adjective . |
| 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 when scalp skin sheds excessively , leaving tiny flakes showing on hair and shoulders . |
| 8 | As previously explained , this is when keyboard input is expected . |
| 9 | This is when pomposity and pedantry seem to get off the leash . |
| 10 | This is when time drops into bottom gear . |
| 11 | L3 increase markedly from mid-summer onwards and this is when disease appears . |
| 12 | This is when Beta Testing starts . |
| 13 | This is when disbelief actually suspended later . |
| 14 | This is not coincidence . |
| 15 | It would seem to follow from the Committee 's proposals that this is not rape , but no other offence would cover the defendant 's conduct . |
| 16 | This is not biomorph space but real genetic space . |
| 17 | This is not satire , but there is an element of a joke . ’ |
| 18 | This is not construction . |
| 19 | This is not Quine 's conclusion . |
| 20 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
| 21 | This is not storm and should not be dealt with as a storm damage claim . |
| 22 | The officers just take their advice , this is not accountability . |
| 23 | This is not paradise either . |
| 24 | When you act in the light of knowledge which is in your own self-interest or in the interests of your group or class , this is not bravery but absolute necessity . ’ |
| 25 | I say this is not cricket what ? |
| 26 | This is not criticism as it is necessary when writing local history to use previous writers . |
| 27 | But this is not evidence for an additional hereditary mechanism . |
| 28 | The authors argue that this is not evidence that their model is incorrect or inapplicable to treated cases , but that , to a certain extent , the factors which make women vulnerable to depression also make them less likely to receive psychiatric help . |
| 29 | But equally obviously this is not evidence for conscious design . |
| 30 | I 'm just wondering whether in fact every Saturday that you 've got , bearing in mind this is not flag days , this is in the street . |