Example sentences of "[be] that [pers pn] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice . |
2 | What I 'm asking for is that we keep this approach up to fight this government to give er our senior citizens a better chance in this life , cos a lot of us here would not be here today if it was n't for the senior citizens who brought us up . |
3 | so basically what what will happen is that they put this order on because they 're cheaper at the moment and the next one we shall be cheaper . |
4 | Is not it clear from those figures that the unique disadvantage suffered by the people of Britain is that they have this Government with the right hon. Gentleman 's policies , which depend on putting people out of work ? |
5 | And the beauty of it is that she embodies this core value of intimacy in her music better than anyone else who 's arrived on the scene in years . |
6 | ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water . |
7 | Well mum , what it wants is that I got this tooth |
8 | The chief virtue of a private property system is that it achieves this dispersal and is therefore structurally antagonistic to coercion . |
9 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
10 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
11 | The alleged motive which John did not dispute was that he committed this crime to conceal another crime being the murder of MOIR McILCHENICH widow in Ellister and we are told that the last mentioned murder of the widow was " discovered " ( probably means committed ) by him and others . |
12 | The second side-effect — and this is n't necessarily a criticism — was that I found this guitar absolutely unbearable to play unless it was as near perfectly in tune as possible . |