Example sentences of "[verb] [be] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The culmination has been this year 's first World Championships in which Andy took 2nd place as well as being co-sponsor with Palm . |
| 2 | It is part of the explosion of interest in music there has been this century . |
| 3 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 4 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 5 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 6 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 7 | Indeed , with the beginnings of credit unions in this country , one group that has shown considerable interest in this development has been this group of lenders whose business has been with poor people . |
| 8 | This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring . |
| 9 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 10 | And so impressed was this man by the occasion that , having lived away from Curry Rivel for many years , he returned late in life to be re-married there — because of his cherished memories of the village in all its beauty on the day ‘ Old Benny Titford ’ was buried . |
| 11 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 12 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 13 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So an example of words we should use are this example and there 's a handout to write , to recite , to identify , to differentiate , to solve , to construct , to list , to compare , to controls . |
| 16 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 17 | Well , I do n't know if Marlborough tobacco was around in the time of Jesus Christ , but erm I think if Jesus Christ had the second coming today one of the first things he would condemn is this week that is the cause of death and destruction throughout the world , and if he would n't condemn that I would certainly be a bit dismayed . |
| 18 | So complete was this victory that it ensured a kind of uneasy peace for nearly three years . |
| 19 | You look at a crowd of people , er last , a week , a week yesterday at Wembley at the Billy Graham mission there , er we were sitting in one place and I was looking for , for some other folk and I knew approximately where they were and there I was stand , they were , all you could really see was this mass of people , very difficult to pick out individuals within them but God does n't see it as a mass like that . |
| 20 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 21 | So secure is this home that once the female spider has built it , she never leaves it . |
| 22 | One of the girls I taught was this girl Hilda Syms , and she got a crush on me . |
| 23 | So secure was this control , I was told , that if a monkey in a red jacket was put up as a candidate it would be elected . |
| 24 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 25 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 26 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 27 | For my experience would have been this way no matter how other experiences might or might not have been . |
| 28 | A HUMBLE £28-a-day flagman bears the main responsibility for the shambles that should have been this year 's Aintree Grand National , according to the official inquiry into ‘ The race that never was . ’ |
| 29 | It may not have been this boy 's fault . ’ |
| 30 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |