Example sentences of "it be [adv] this [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just this problem you might say that I 've got , y'know . |
| 2 | It 's just this time I 'm tired all the while . |
| 3 | As breastfeeding is often difficult enough for women to manage , please do not further discourage other women from breastfeeding when it is not this factor which is mainly responsible for the loss of shape . |
| 4 | However , it is probably this stage which separates interpreters from ordinary individuals . |
| 5 | This is most noticeably the case when we examine education ( chapter 12 ) , and it is probably this situation which comes closest to a monitor situation . |
| 6 | Yet it is just this act which Joyce accepted to do . |
| 7 | However , it is just this situation which allows us to detect the uncertainties and ambiguities in the minds of most citizens as they think about ‘ the nation ’ . |
| 8 | It is exactly this problem which causes a percentage of artificial hip joint failures . |
| 9 | It is exactly this point which D. J. Enright makes in the observation that ‘ Plato may once have thought more highly of speech than of writing , but I doubt he does now ! ’ |
| 10 | It is especially this formation which enables us to define the difficult concept of a fraction . |
| 11 | The third outcome is to fail to reconcile the discrepancy between personal goals and achievement , and it is often this failure which leads to retirement becoming a problem . |
| 12 | It is precisely this weighting which can not be observed for art works . |
| 13 | Interestingly it is precisely this issue which put the story on the front page after days and days of inside-page coverage . |
| 14 | It is precisely this fusion which constitutes the originality of Paul Nizan . |
| 15 | In English this does not necessarily happen , although one might claim it is precisely this device which good story-tellers invoke , even in English . |
| 16 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 17 | It was probably this film which prompted the phrase Action Painting . |
| 18 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 19 | It was probably this advance which persuaded Eleanor that the time had come to join her sons . |
| 20 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |