Example sentences of "this [is] [pron] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible for governing bodies to build in an external element in the appeal procedure : this is something they might wish to consider . |
| 2 | They will be conscious of the camera but if this is something they normally do , and if you handle the occasion unobtrusively , allowing some run-in time for everyone to settle down , you can get useable examples of language in action . |
| 3 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 4 | This is what they say about tackling your pelargoniums now . |
| 5 | This is what they teach fighters in Britain and that 's why most British fighters are only of a certain calibre . |
| 6 | At private meetings over meals or in his office North would produce his spiral notebook or pieces of yellow legal paper , asking ‘ how in God 's name we can expect these young men and women to fight against Communism when this is what they 're up against ’ , and often breaking into tears . |
| 7 | Labour 's capacity to resist change can never be under-estimated and their conversion will always be suspect , but after their partial success by moving in this direction , this is what they will certainly try to do . |
| 8 | ’ Theists argue that this is what they are drawn to say about the whole of reality . |
| 9 | This is what they did in 1947 . |
| 10 | This is what they sang in praise to God : |
| 11 | It made him feel he wanted to punish the crowd and fired him to say , ‘ If this is what they think of me and what they think of Jacklin , I 'll make sure he never finishes in front of me again . ’ |
| 12 | They must be allowed to fail If this is what they choose ; If you love them , you will be on hand to help them up again . |
| 13 | In fact it is likely that they have chosen to work in the CAB because this is what they want to do . |
| 14 | It is a tremendous tribute to Patsy and her husband that this is what they have become . |
| 15 | I asked children to think of a witches ' stew and this is what they suggested to put on a sign on the wall : |
| 16 | This is what they did for Mrs W and her children . |
| 17 | Put away your Lego and Sindy dolls , this is what they call Real Life . |
| 18 | I asked them , and this is what they told me . |
| 19 | ‘ They have said that this is what they wanted . |
| 20 | ‘ If this is what they call a good camp , think how the other poor bastards are suffering ’ |
| 21 | He said , ‘ Well , I suppose this is what they call our ultimate destination . |
| 22 | So this is what they did , directed me to Bradley 's at Bilston which I er stayed at until the war finished . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose this is what they call the fog of war , ’ she yelled . |
| 24 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 25 | And they sent back and now this is what they said to us in this letter I remember this distinctly that er if we want you to come out we 'll tell you but we regard your factories as our second line of defence . |
| 26 | This is what they do . |
| 27 | After all , if novelists truly wanted to simulate the delta of life 's possibilities , this is what they 'd do . |
| 28 | This is what they wanted and I undertook to do it and I tell you , all me life I 've been able to and have done that . |
| 29 | ‘ Mare ’ is Latin for sea , because when this appendage was given in the seventeenth century it was believed that this is what they were . |
| 30 | This is what they wrote : |