Example sentences of "this [be] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of this are when we are down on our luck , have no money , are sick , misunderstood , in a corner or just feeling old . |
| 2 | The principal examples of this are when a registered shareholder ( a ) dies or ( b ) becomes bankrupt . |
| 3 | The essential elements of this are as follows : — |
| 4 | The reasons for this are as follows : |
| 5 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 6 | Can this be because London Transport was afraid it might give passengers ideas ? |
| 7 | Could this be because ballet lessons are now a very middle-class thing , like ponies ? |
| 8 | Would this be because she had something to hide , he wondered , or was she inhibited by her clerical top brass . |
| 9 | With party membership on the decline could one of the reasons for this be because of the cost ? |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | How can this be if , as the right hon. Gentleman claims , it is all a British problem ? |
| 12 | This is whether or not the information is represented statistically . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This is unless he exceeds the terms of the licence or the plaintiff has legally revoked the licence . |
| 16 | no that 's obvious , because this is after the baby 's born |
| 17 | This is after he 's filled with the Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | This is after perhaps with the possible exception of John fourteen , this is perhaps the , the best known , and best loved chapter in the gospel narratives . |
| 19 | This is after only eighteen months of Labour control and is rapidly becoming the of the North . |
| 20 | So , er , we were having a drink , you know , and er this is after her father got done for er stealing you know , for hauling stolen meat , and we were sitting and all and Christopher was , and Michelle said , oh , and you know the way she gets on Bernard , like , oh you 're gon na have to come round to my house and we 'll have a really lovely barbecue and all , and there was steaks . |
| 21 | This is so whatever the formal or legal scope of the institution . |
| 22 | This is so whatever the size of the shareholdings in the company . |
| 23 | This is before you move on to environmental impact , the feeling of the community , and what the planners think : considerations whose complexity rises exponentially with the size and prominence of a site , and the number of bodies who have interests in the exercise . |
| 24 | Erm I du n no this is somebody else 's paper so This is before I had a I worked it out as I I th I thought it 'd work out a three- four-five triangle . |
| 25 | You see , and so we went to oh Inverness , Aberdeen and across to the Isle of Skye , and down the Skye and back across the water to Mallaig you see and er then we stayed one time at Fort William and because I love Scotland , so did he and erm and , and then and all r and then , and another thing , erm , this is before I married erm I went down , oh no , both of us , that 's right , we went down to stay at erm not , not Portsmouth er Southsea er there , there 's a place near there , next door |
| 26 | This is before you 've got the |
| 27 | this is before you 've got the piano . |
| 28 | Now eighteen months ago we had three hundred and , it was April , the report in April nineteen ninety two there were three hundred and sixty five I think it was places that were vacant in our homes and this is before we started the refurbishment . |
| 29 | This is before anybody gets any ideas at all . |
| 30 | This is before I left , I I , I have n't done . |