Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What news ? ’ 'Great news ? ’ 'What be this news ? ’ 'News , they say ! ’ etc. etc . |
| 2 | Way ahead of current thinking is this new form of Parisian transport designed by Jacques Rougerie |
| 3 | Matt , who had suddenly become alert , demanded with interest , ‘ What girlfriend is this ? ’ |
| 4 | Yo whose card 's this ? |
| 5 | Whose card 's this ? |
| 6 | Whose card 's this ? |
| 7 | So the deal is this . |
| 8 | But the difference between the Iron Chancellor and the Huggable President is this : Mr Clinton thinks his horizontal management style is modern , exciting , even clever . |
| 9 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 10 | I suggest that the most important question to ask about any parasite is this . |
| 11 | And you come over the bridge and the toll 's this side of it . |
| 12 | The result is this , the usual top-notch selection of strange , sad ( as in pathos rather than pathetic ) and massively moving material that will thrill fans of the band and probably puzzle the uninitiated ( again ! ) . |
| 13 | What good is this if core tasks cease ? |
| 14 | yeah , any , well er right , which club is this ? |
| 15 | THE MAN responsible for Britain 's contribution to the Concorde programme is this country 's candidate for the top job at the European space Agency ( ESA ) , which becomes vacant in a year 's time . |
| 16 | What programme 's this ? |
| 17 | What irony is this ? |
| 18 | Put very simply , what the child feels in his subconscious mind is this : ‘ If this wonderful human being really loved me , he ( or she ) would want to be with me all the time . |
| 19 | The question i the question in my mind is this . |
| 20 | It seems like you got there 's a logic , there are arguments behind what you 're doing , and you 're equalising things certainly , but I suppose what comes to mind is this phrase to rob Peter to pay Paul , and it must be very difficult to explain to the people in the old folks home when it 's being closed , I 'm sorry , you 're doing this so that somebody else in a different part of the country will have a better quality of life . |
| 21 | Freda said : ‘ You 'll still go to the lawyer 's this afternoon ? ’ |
| 22 | Designer knit-denim is this season 's best-selling collection . |
| 23 | They are to take granddad 's this afternoon . |
| 24 | A final , arithmetical method used to estimate correct weight is this . |
| 25 | What chapter 's this ? |
| 26 | And then borrow it again on a Friday or a Saturday and this went on for so long er he 'd eventually Tom said , by the way Jack , he said , whose pound note , whose pound is this ? |
| 27 | What distinguishes curved space–time from flat space–time is this : the frame in free fall at x differs from the frame in free fall at an event a small distance away , at . |
| 28 | It is a pity , for much of the pleasure of carp fishing is this tuning-in of a highly developed hunting instinct . |
| 29 | The centrepiece of Joseph Ettedgui 's latest emporium is this complex glass stair held together by a delicate spider 's web of steel rods , split pins and steel rings . |
| 30 | Still well I mean I know the majority of it 's wood and there 's three large windows in it , and a door and erm the roof is this erm stuff it 's just like er plastic moulding but it 's double glazed bloody oven in there ! |