Example sentences of "this be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main points arising from this are that : ( 1 ) the vowel system is totally different from mainstream British English in terms of vowel-length , vowel-height , diphthongization and other properties ( for example , vowel-length is not usually contrastive , as it is alleged to be in RP , and so most vowel-phonemes , such as /e/ , as in gate , save , are realized as considerably longer or shorter allophones according to consonantal environment ) ; ( 2 ) allophones of phonemes can overlap phonetically with allophones of other phonemes in a manner that is not permitted by classical phoneme theory ( Bloomfield , 1933 ) ; ( 3 ) lexical items do not necessarily belong to the same vowel phoneme classes as they do in RP and SBE ( for example , whereas good and food have different vowels in most SBE , they have the same vowel in Ulster English ) ; and ( 4 ) many sets of lexical items exhibit vowel alternations , in that the vowels in these items are realizations of two different phonemes . |
| 2 | Er human testing and immunizations is still going gone in this are and I hope it wo n't ever stop . |
| 3 | Examples of this are when we are down on our luck , have no money , are sick , misunderstood , in a corner or just feeling old . |
| 4 | The principal examples of this are when a registered shareholder ( a ) dies or ( b ) becomes bankrupt . |
| 5 | The essential elements of this are as follows : — |
| 6 | The reasons for this are as follows : |
| 7 | And what 's the difference between this been and that bean ? |
| 8 | Wh what erm what ye what year would this be that you sort of s |
| 9 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 10 | Can this be because London Transport was afraid it might give passengers ideas ? |
| 11 | Could this be because ballet lessons are now a very middle-class thing , like ponies ? |
| 12 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 13 | With party membership on the decline could one of the reasons for this be because of the cost ? |
| 14 | Could this be because the EPA , like the UK Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health , did not conclude that an effect of ‘ passive smoking ’ was demonstrated ? ’ |
| 15 | How can this be if , as the right hon. Gentleman claims , it is all a British problem ? |
| 16 | What would this be and possible remedy . |
| 17 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |
| 18 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 19 | This is whether or not the information is represented statistically . |
| 20 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
| 21 | What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors . |
| 22 | This is unless he exceeds the terms of the licence or the plaintiff has legally revoked the licence . |
| 23 | Part of the reason for this is that the American professoriat is the largest in the world , while the American market for current art is unprecedented ; it is evident that the turnover of the American art market as a whole is the largest in the world . |
| 24 | The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered . |
| 25 | The reason for this is that there are now two ways of getting your council 's blessing to proceed with the work you have in mind . |
| 26 | The reason for this is that as the core begins to saturate , the voltage available for saturation falls , tending to slow down the approach to saturation . |
| 27 | The reason why we are embarrassed to admit this is that we have lived in an age when the self-sufficiency , the autonomy of poems has been elevated into dogma . |
| 28 | The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th . |
| 29 | The effect of this is that nobody , some City professionals included , really knows much about any of them . |
| 30 | This is that the King is showing signs of not having learnt the lesson of the past months . |