Example sentences of "[verb] be this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is part of the explosion of interest in music there has been this century . |
| 2 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 3 | This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring . |
| 4 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 5 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 6 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 7 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 8 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 9 | He adds : ‘ It has been a good few years since the snow has been this hard which means a lot of walkers are n't used to it . |
| 10 | During the past two or three generations there have been , there has been this , this idea of God 's favour being expressed in blessing . |
| 11 | ‘ Labourer : ‘ What I want to know be this . |
| 12 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 13 | What matters is this : there is a growing consensus that the current regime for financial services has failed , and its critics think that this failure is a failure of self-regulation . |
| 14 | ‘ And what I propose is this — that we introduce an additional label into the collection . |
| 15 | Now the blue flames are What 's happening is this , there 's two reactions taking place in that coke fire . |
| 16 | Well I think I , I mean I do agree and I think that the that er that pressure is now getting on to these , these city institutions , but erm , but I still come back to the basic thing that , that really , you know what appears to me is happening is we 've we 're having literally millions of pounds taken out in , in issuing these massive massive writs you know , a hundred and seventy eight page writs are sort of being and really the money for those is coming out of the remaining money in our pension funds and really I feel that what wou what is happening is this , as far as I 'm concerned , is all due to the self-regulatory body being set under the Financial Services Act , and in a way I feel that you know we 're being made to pay for sorting out a mess that somebody else is making . |
| 17 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 18 | ‘ I think what we do know is this . |
| 19 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
| 20 | I think the sort of answer you want is this . |
| 21 | All they want is this bloody letter and we 're going to give it to them . |
| 22 | What Paul needs is this little girl who does n't care whether a man 's a bit boring . |
| 23 | The immediate difficulty that one encounters is this . |
| 24 | The question which must be addressed is this : are they that good — or are England that bad ? |
| 25 | What was happening was this . |
| 26 | ‘ What they found was this , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 27 | And so impressed was this man by the occasion that , having lived away from Curry Rivel for many years , he returned late in life to be re-married there — because of his cherished memories of the village in all its beauty on the day ‘ Old Benny Titford ’ was buried . |
| 28 | What you could have done say was this one here that 's marked E does n't have to be all of those who supported Everton , it could be just that bit . |
| 29 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 30 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |