Example sentences of "this [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discount supermarkets like this are nothing new . |
| 2 | just to give you some background information cos we do need to address that , I know it 's a side issue from this are we fairly happy with that ? |
| 3 | Super this are we going to say into January or are we going to say into February ? |
| 4 | If dumps like this are what she has to put up with , then up with this she 'll put . |
| 5 | Oh nobody 's gon na talk about that with this are they ! |
| 6 | You 're getting paid for this are you ? |
| 7 | You 're not turning up to school in this are you ? |
| 8 | Examples of this are his fierce-looking lady ( to a heavily armed German soldier advancing over the lawn ) : ‘ How dare you come in here ! ’ , or a placid scene in a country pub where the radio on the bar is tuned to the German propaganda station : ‘ Meanwhile , in Britain , the entire population , faced by the threat of an invasion has been flung into a state of complete panic . ’ |
| 9 | Has this been something special in acting for you ? |
| 10 | Had this been my regular field of action , I too would have made myself hors de combat . |
| 11 | Had this been his dominating characteristic , he could not possibly have retained his position through the vicissitudes and challenges of a decade and a half . |
| 12 | Had this been anyone but Radulfus testing the waters , Radulfus in his inflexible uprightness , a man might almost have suspected … |
| 13 | Then Augustine begins to ponder that the memory is a vast and boundless sphere , full of desires and hopes of happiness , as well as being full of fears and sorrows : ‘ Great is the power of memory , a fearful thing , O my God , a deep and boundless manifoldness : and this thing is the mind , and this am I myself . ’ |
| 14 | Could this be them ? |
| 15 | Safe rave tabs — could this be what I 'm looking for ? |
| 16 | Might this be what Bowsher refers to as overwhelming pain ? |
| 17 | Women 's freedom to purchase their own housing , should this be their desire , is thus severely limited . |
| 18 | Gloucester won 17-10 ; could this be their year to win the cup ? |
| 19 | When I go from hence let this be my parting word , that what I have seen is unsurpassable . |
| 20 | I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light , and thus am I blessed — let this be my parting word . |
| 21 | My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch ; and if the end comes here , let it come — let this be my parting word . |
| 22 | Could this be it daddy ? |
| 23 | Could this be your ring ? it was found down by the river with an ear-pick and a stiletto . |
| 24 | COULD this be your summer house ? |
| 25 | And this were what would it be , about twenty to seven . |
| 26 | Indeed if this were its intended effect , it is difficult to see why the subsection goes on to say that it is not necessary to obtain the parents ' consent , rather than providing that such consent , if obtained , should be ineffective . |
| 27 | I kept thinking to myself , Typical Jamila , that 's exactly what she would do , as if this were something that happened every day . |
| 28 | She made it sound as though this were something illegal . |
| 29 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 30 | I remember when all this were nowt but fields , and people released simple horizontally scrolling blasters for the C64 . |