Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | ‘ Labourer : ‘ What I want to know be this . |
| 3 | Once you have made the appointment and the candidate has accepted is this the end of the recruitment and selection process ? |
| 4 | Yes I have spoken to Mrs who is the er er the woman involved and what she has said is this , the We ca n't directly we ca n't directly get hold of it , they wo n't send it out into the community . |
| 5 | What has to happen is this . |
| 6 | ‘ What I want to say is this , there was a misunderstanding . |
| 7 | What I want to say is this . |
| 8 | Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’ |
| 9 | The point I want to make is this . |
| 10 | But the only one he had found himself wanting to see was this girl . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | but it is the case that twenty two per cent of crimes are committed by women , erm and I think that the situation with women committing crime is quite complex and complicated one , erm that really needs quite er , a great detail of discussion , and one of the , the points I was going to make was this question of feeling guilty |
| 13 | I took , I took the cheque around on Monday , I had the , the last appointment on Friday and erm since I 've had the abscess , the tooth that 's got a crown on top , I think it 's been pushed up a little bit and my top teeth , the first two keeps catching was this |
| 14 | What then followed appears to have been this : the daughter died childless and her sister , inspired by father 's words , attempted to recover the estate from the heir who had been instituted . |
| 15 | The husbandman 's argument appears to have been this : he could easily determine by the above methods whether the seed-bed was ready for the corn and whether the soil was of the right tilth : but be could not be sure that the soil was warm enough to allow the seed to germinate . |
| 16 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |
| 17 | Where you went skiing is this side of Austria , but Vienna is about two hundred and two hundred and fifty miles further on across Austria , very close to erm Czechoslovakia and erm Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | ‘ I think what we do know is this . |
| 19 | Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square . |
| 20 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 21 | He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash . |
| 22 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 23 | What you 've got is this . |
| 24 | What had occurred was this . |
| 25 | What had happened was this . |
| 26 | So what you 've achieved is this piece over the stairs . |
| 27 | The book I 've chosen is this one , Understanding Foreign Policy by Michael Clarke and Brian White who are editors , so if you could note that book down please , Understanding Foreign Policy , it is on your list , Understanding Foreign Policy by Michael Clarke and Brian White . |
| 28 | No , the point I 'm trying to make is this : everyone else around here has changed their name . |
| 29 | I think the third general point I 'd want to make is this : if you 're applying for a course at university , then it does n't matter what A-levels you 're taking , or what courses you 've put down for at the five universities . |
| 30 | But in fact all we need to remember is this : |