Example sentences of "this is [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This is when we started forming consumer groups and demanding watchdogs to protect us in this shopping jungle .
2 I bet that 's , this is when they started to get , get in
3 and secondly it 's coming to the end of the financial year and this is when they want to spend the money .
4 This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance .
5 So is everybody with us so far , because this is when it starts to get difficult .
6 Erm this is where we 've asked our tool room to supply them with any parts , save taking them off the the original .
7 And this is where we 've decided that what we really need is young engineers , in other words er , people who have just entered the profession itself to talk to the school children .
8 This is where we 've come up with critical application software .
9 We can , we can have any further in s sorry , we can have any further during the conclusion session which is , this is where we tend run on , okay ?
10 We landed in Bangkok this is where we had to change planes , there was about an hour and a half wait so we had plenty of time to look around the duty free .
11 This is where we need to re-program and send the next set of stitch patterns to the memory .
12 ‘ What we have to do is … very unorthodox … and this is where we need to pledge each other to the utmost secrecy . ’
13 But this is where we need to talk to the client
14 This is where we need to listen to what they 're asking and what they need , and give them enough to satisfy them .
15 This is where we need to turn to the factual evidence .
16 How best to but during that talk and this is where we need to concentrate he 'll be dropping snippets of information .
17 Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education .
18 This is where I had arranged to meet Paul Cadd ( fellow DECcie ) .
19 ‘ So this is where I have to leave you . ’
20 Okay this is where it starts to get a little bit complicated .
21 I knew it was right for him — this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children .
22 And I mean this is where you get caught .
23 This is where you get to wrap the whole thing up . ’
24 ‘ So , this is where you 've got to ? ’
25 This is where you want to start then ?
26 This is where you need to establish a focus before viewing through the task you set .
27 This is where you need to develop the thick skin .
28 Playing area — this is where you do battle with the professor 's perilous pests .
29 However and this is why we 've got this big diagram coming up however different councils are elected at different points in the electoral sequence .
30 So prices have tend to have fallen on world markets for agricultural goods because of support right , and they 've also become a lot more volatile and that , and that is the er the source of the international frustration with erm the common agricultural policy and this is why we 've got agriculture er being introduced into the G A T T. Not only does it impose huge costs on domestic tax payers and consumers , it also in incurs erm a large cost on third country exporters , right now if you think that most of those countries may well be developing countries and agricultural output is their only source of foreign exchange erm then er the policies of the rich countries in the West are erm a actively erm hindering the development prospects of developing countries alright and that may not be the desired intention .
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