Example sentences of "[conj] be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When God made the plants that are on this Earth , first He made their stalks and leaves . |
| 2 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 3 | Can erm one of you look in this week 's Advertiser , and any sort of talks and things that are on this week if they 've got a phone number to contact , give them a buzz and see if they mind us recording it . |
| 4 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 5 | Er and then to contrast this you 've got like the feminist view er well it 's a just reconstruct a lot of these ideas instead of saying that women 's talk was diffident they said it was more considerate , and so the idea that quite often A lot of the features that are in this conversation are n't because women want to be deferential to the men they 're talking to , it 's that they actually want to show some consideration to the turn-taking or the conversational style that 's going on . |
| 6 | Oh you should 've heard him other day , all Parker pens that are in this house are his he says |
| 7 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 8 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 9 | These that are in this bag . |
| 10 | all the other things that were on this disc originally . |
| 11 | O K , I want to before we , we go any further , to let us have a look at something that is on this agenda which is called commercial awareness . |
| 12 | I believe , I believe in two parent families , there 's nobody in my family that 's in this situation . |
| 13 | The very old and the young have a weaker mind than those in their prime and are for this reason more vulnerable to spirit attack . |
| 14 | Charles and Arthur Wilson were made full partners in 1867 and were by this time effectively running the company , which they transformed from a major European enterprise into an international one with routes to North America and India . |
| 15 | and being in this state for |
| 16 | To a layman , the word ‘ bureaucracy ’ has unpleasant associations ; however , the German writer , Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) who is the organisational theorist most closely associated with the analysis of bureaucracy , was inclined to regard bureaucracy as the ideal form of organisation , which is ‘ from a purely technical point of view , capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational means of carrying out imperative control over human beings . ’ |
| 17 | The FIS and IS in this passage can equally be understood as " narrative report of speech act " ( NRSA ) ( Leech and Short 1981 : 323 – 4 ) which is a mode of speech summary less faithful than FIS and IS to the actual verbal structure of the original ; and the ambiguity is amplified by the suggestion in the third sentence that Rousseau 's text autonomously " yields " information without intervention from a critic — a sentence which could also be considered as a form of NRSA . |
| 18 | Basil 's concern was always with a sensory response to the world , and was at this level , essentially expressive . |
| 19 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 20 | Tuathal had crossed the Earn and was on this side , strung out with what remained of his hundred horsemen . |
| 21 | The white cat , presumably by direct contrast , was seen as a force of light against the darkness and was in this way converted into a symbol of good fortune . |