Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be this " in BNC.
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| 1 | and say what is this ? |
| 2 | If you only buy one book , let it be this one ; you will be lastingly enriched . |
| 3 | I think I went down to most people to say they ca n't , but when you point out something to them , they say yes I can see that , look there 's this as well and I think culturally er were led to believe if you do n't succeed in it , erm but in actual fact I think that you all do , but perhaps I think the books do , either assess it and give it value or , or still allow it to happen |
| 4 | Look what 's this called ? |
| 5 | And er you know there is this attitude that nature it has been said nature is untidy well nature by its very definition is untidy . |
| 6 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 7 | So you know there was this |
| 8 | Andy : ‘ Like there was this man I know in Ireland who swears this story is true . |
| 9 | ‘ I confess it 's this last point that interests me , ’ Mrs Wilson said . |
| 10 | I mean there 's this line |
| 11 | I mean I said to her today I mean there was this costume there and I said here get that one there I said french maid outfit , nurse 's outfit . |
| 12 | because for eighteen months I mean there was this sledgehammer and all you could hear was boom , boom |
| 13 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 14 | ‘ Appen it was t'war , ‘ appen it was his marriage breaking up , ‘ appen it was this new wife . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose it 's this , ’ she went relentlessly on , ‘ I 've been lumbered , too ! ’ |
| 16 | And erm I think generally people do n't realize how quite unique that is. erm one thing , of course , which is also not erm very readily understood , is the involvement of the legal person , the Clerk to the Justices , in the system , so that with the three Justices you 'll having sitting you 'll have sitting below them the legally qualified Clerk , and I suppose it 's this particular feature of the system which is difficult for people abroad to comprehend _ how a legally qualified person can be sitting there without dominating the proceedings . |
| 17 | I suppose it was this that made Richard think I could not manage Flora 's job . |
| 18 | Some teachers in the county believe it 's this very concensus between Tories , Liberal Democrats and Labour which has led to a crisis in county education . |
| 19 | I find it 's this flexibility that I use most . |
| 20 | Eargh What 's this ? |
| 21 | First of all ask ourselves is this a genuine problem ? |
| 22 | Since she does n't respond to my telling her to relax I ask who is this landlord anyway and has she got a rent book ? |
| 23 | I bet it 's this family 's here . |
| 24 | I bet it 's this lot who come to it . |
| 25 | I fucking come back and try and put something and go what is this man ? |
| 26 | Erm he makes a distinction between poor peasants , some being utterly destitute and some just being less destitute but er basically as er seventy percent of the population erm they 're the main group that 's pushing revolution forward and s so therefore I mean it 's this group that the Communist Party must n't alienate , you know , they mu must n't do anything to harm this group , associations the Communist Party must n't attack erm the associations . |
| 27 | And I think there is this kind of elements , this kind of testing battle , go and defend ye indefensible . |
| 28 | It 's , it 's hard to , I think there is this erm farmland I would imagine a very very hard |
| 29 | And I think there is this dividing line that there is the pure craft where the object is functional and is made for a specific purpose , but is beautifully made , but there is also the craftsman who crosses the barrier between art and craft , who makes beautiful objects that are perhaps non functional , and then of course you 're in the controversial field . |
| 30 | It 's not Carry it 's this thing we have to she tape conversations for speech therapy . |