Example sentences of "[pron] be this [noun] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , that , that bloke his got his fucking , there 's this bloke he 's got his sun glasses on and he thinks his er sun bathing , so he got this fucking what 's it , his trousers on still and he 's trying to get his trunks on and his trousers on still cos this blokes there , he 's fucking going from all this and that |
| 2 | But I 'm lucky , cos there 's this bloke who comes along , so when the lights turn green I just follow along behind him till I get to the other side . |
| 3 | We 've got this erm I actually do n't know why he 's got this nickname but there 's this guy who lives out in er and he 's got the nickname Seamus O'Reilly . |
| 4 | Erm against that there is this elephant which appears , and you say we might have it and find a zoo for it , and in fact we ca n't move fast enough to find the zoo . |
| 5 | er it were this mechanic who lives in who 's , who knows a good mate of Tony 's and he 's told Tony Tony told him like and he says right , he said leave the car to me . |
| 6 | However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results . |
| 7 | It 's this combination which has made Stoddard Templeton the proud holders of the Royal Warrant since 1966 . |
| 8 | This is the role of commercial group 's distribution services and it 's this department which has drawn up a new packaging policy and code of practice . |
| 9 | It is this consideration which leads directly to the way that social representation theorists conceive of the process of anchoring , and the need to widen this conception , so that everyday thinking can be understood in terms of opposing psychological processes . |
| 10 | We can suppose , then , that only justified beliefs can justify others ; and it is this thought which generates the regress . |
| 11 | And it is this approach which leads to denunciation of Derrida as a nihilist ; in Frederick Crews 's words , ‘ an intellectual nihilist , though a learned and exuberant one ’ . |
| 12 | It is this intimacy which permits and often begets intensity , and the world of the spirit is much the poorer when such works are suppressed . |
| 13 | It is this expectation which gives the work its edge and you will see a side of Peter Pan and the Ferry Girl which perhaps only exists in our darker moments . |
| 14 | Thus the tied cottage system emerged directly from the desire of farmers to control labour supplies — and it is this concern which remains at the heart of the system today . |
| 15 | It is this requirement which requires a listing of the population members , or units , from which the sample may be drawn using a random procedure . |
| 16 | It is this diversity which provides the fresh and stimulating argument which makes the Cambridge Seminar format so successful — and it is much helped by the differing backgrounds of the members . |
| 17 | It is this conflict which leads increasingly to the urge to treat people as groups rather than as individuals — but it is an abnegation of responsibility on the part of the leaders and for the future it will not do . |
| 18 | It is this publication which gives them their force as a form of evaluation of schools , particularly as the intention of this part of the Act was to give parents information upon which to base their choice of school . |
| 19 | It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings . |
| 20 | Today , gold is mixed with a variety of alloys to enhance these qualities , and it is this mixture which determines its value and purity . |
| 21 | In my opinion it is this flexibility which has given English primary education its unique quality . |
| 22 | It is this popularity which has prompted the management to look at the possibility of introducing these fit bodies to the joys of tennis , by offering complimentary tennis tuition , a worthy initiative and one which can only enhance the game in the club and its surrounding area . |
| 23 | It is this characteristic which renders fundamentalist religion open to large numbers of fissures in communities , with preachers or sections of congregations shaking the dust from their feet and moving off to build or buy another church . |
| 24 | Until the slightly contrasting tendencies become more manifest in the later-second century ( with the trend to fully centralised designs etc. ) it is this characteristic which makes these designs complementary . |
| 25 | It is this feature which lends plausibility to the suggestion that the pictures , fitted into the recesses left for them , were not to be enjoyed as objects for themselves but as part of the grand architectural design of the two rooms . |
| 26 | When a speaker takes the trouble to use a restrictive relative clause in a noun phrase equipped with a definite article but no attributive adjective , it will naturally be presumed that it is this clause which makes recognition possible ; there is no need for such an assumption when the clause is non-restrictive . |
| 27 | I believe that each of us has what I term a spirit ( but which I am quite happy for others to call the soul , the higher self , the inner self — or any of dozens of different names ) and that it is this spirit which has a journey to make through several lifetimes . |
| 28 | Today , it is this factor which determines whether they will be sold as fresh fruit or processed into juice or sauce . |
| 29 | It is this act which introduces the probabilistic element , the jarring discontinuity in the system 's experience . |
| 30 | It is this rage which draws us in , which has us participating in Hemingway 's feelings before we know it , that makes the piece so powerful . |