Example sentences of "this [be] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 This is what enables us in historical study to bridge the gulf between the present and the past , to enter into the experience and awareness which are opened up for us in the thoughts , beliefs , practices and social customs and institutions of other times and other cultures .
2 This is what pisses me off so often you know , things like the halls of residence and stuff are there to help the students and they do n't , they just try and rip them off for every cent they can do it for .
3 This is what allows you to adjust the colours and mix and match them for your new palette .
4 This is what terrifies me !
5 This is what lets us keep the price low and the quality high .
6 She felt that in his time of need she left him and this is what causes her sense of guilt , not her husband 's death .
7 Yes , I mean this is what interests me most , I think , the sheer convenience of it .
8 But questions of this sort are not just matters of zoological taxonomy , they are also the necessary central problem for all religious systems and this is what brings them within the scope of social anthropology .
9 In addition to their orthodoxy on the issues , this is what makes them an asset to the DUP and this is what accounts for their displacing of some of the stalwarts .
10 And this is what makes his fellow-outsider , Mr Riordan , more interesting .
11 It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game .
12 The response is out of all proportion to the stimulus , and this is what makes it special , distinguishing it from occasions where a cat merely withdraws after being scolded .
13 We might suggest that in conceiving the rule for + 2 , we somehow already conceived all the instances , and this is what makes it the case that the ‘ correct ’ interpretation is correct .
14 The difficulty is that a recruitment system has to be both a production system and an information system , and this is what makes it so much more complex than personnel records .
15 This is what makes you so special , Fran , this ability to feel for others . ’
16 This is what worries me , if you have got too much stuff going through one person that .
17 For many users this is what starts them thinking about LANs .
18 This is what concerns me .
19 Is the fact that out of a Madonna song this is he thinks he 's so much better than me .
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