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

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1 Everyone has been asking this questions since it was announced that Holiday '91 Presenter Anne Gregg will be leaving the programme later this month at her BBC bosses ' request .
2 The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition .
3 The valley is the habitat of at least 21 species of the insect , which has been highlighted this month by a travelling exhibition .
4 And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election .
5 Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) .
6 She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year .
7 Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes .
8 Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but
9 ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’
10 It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years .
11 ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this .
12 ‘ Similar offences in the past have received a fortnight 's suspension , but because of the player 's disciplinary record he has been given this long ban , ’ said the committee chairman David Johnson .
13 He has been studying this rare British plant since WWF funded his first project three years ago .
14 It has been confirmed this week that political parties will no longer get financial subsidies , and the party urgently needs new sources of money .
15 But it 's been demolished this year .
16 I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home .
17 When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’
18 he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid
19 I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response .
20 The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes .
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