Example sentences of "[is] this " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | Is this a king who is the shepherd of his people ? |
| 2 | One difficulty in describing a climate of opinion is this fact : that many shared views are not stated openly , but assumed . |
| 3 | Is this some Jewish joke ? |
| 4 | What woman-post is this ! |
| 5 | Holla ! what storm is this ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | My word of advice is this . |
| 8 | It is this characteristic which renders fundamentalist religion open to large numbers of fissures in communities , with preachers or sections of congregations shaking the dust from their feet and moving off to build or buy another church . |
| 9 | Nor is this feeling only provoked by the sight or the thought of art , he wrote . |
| 10 | Is this the moment of truth , he wrote , or the greatest temptation ? |
| 11 | And yet , wrote Harsnet , it is this which excites me , this which makes me want to go on . |
| 12 | The beauty of glass , he wrote , is this , that the surface does not have to be covered . |
| 13 | Is this all there is ? |
| 14 | Yet where is this wandering taking him ? |
| 15 | The question he is really asking , I think , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , is this : Is that secret strength a minus or a plus ? |
| 16 | Is this all you have to show for it ? he wrote . |
| 17 | Is this what you imagined the culmination of your life would be ? |
| 18 | Is this then all you are ? |
| 19 | Is this then the last temptation ? he wrote . |
| 20 | Is this the right venue ? |
| 21 | perhaps the only thing I feel proud of is this : No excuses . |
| 22 | It is this alarming development which most concerns the National Amenity Societies represented in this report . |
| 23 | So , has the ‘ brasserie boom ’ brought about good value in restaurants and , if so , is this recognised by the public ? |
| 24 | Is this possibility genuinely different from the existing regional models ? |
| 25 | Is this flying in the face of what makes good cinema ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How long is this all going to take ? ’ |
| 27 | Anyway , what is this about you having no money ? |
| 28 | ‘ The basic position is this , ’ she said . |
| 29 | What is this ‘ homelessness ’ ’ anyway ? |
| 30 | It is this logic of practice which effectively negates most research and is perhaps the main reason that between 1979 and 1988 , only one of the research papers I have compiled has been looked at by senior officers . |