Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] is this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So who is this story of four black women , a dead man , a white man and a pile of contraband cash aimed at ? |
| 2 | Er you know , but none the less there is this preference . |
| 3 | So there is this simplicity going in one direction while we 've got this sort of tritone bass line going in another . |
| 4 | so there is this mixture of er of the older element and the younger element which we 've got to sort of marry during this course . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 7 | So what is this date ? |
| 8 | So what is this number , that you multiply it by itself and it makes a hundred ? |
| 9 | So what is this business ? |
| 10 | So what is this theory of yours ? ’ |
| 11 | But exactly what is this creativity and how do you ensure you are providing it ? |
| 12 | Or not , exactly what is this thing I 've got here and what can I use it for now ? |
| 13 | ‘ Exactly what is this business proposition ? ’ |
| 14 | Oh ! hear me witness that my heart is set on higher things ; it would sail into far seas unvisited of man , but always there is this anchor of the flesh chaining it to its native shore . ’ |
| 15 | What are the reason for my account the fact that there , they do n't obtain these higher wages because clearly there is this income gap the differential is driving the whole process , yet economic theory tells us that the migration should , should diminish that gap between income in urban and rural areas |
| 16 | Very often it is this rod that gets a bite . |
| 17 | I mean I , I know you 're not doing any thing very active , well nobody is this time of year , but still , I 've got some nice ham |
| 18 | Surely it is this sort of ‘ disgrace ’ that the council should be paying attention to . |
| 19 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 20 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 21 | Arguably it is this aim which provides the ‘ ideological coherence which holds together the various initiatives and pieces of legislation ’ ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 251 ) introduced by the Conservative governments of the 1980s . |
| 22 | Indeed it is this alienation that is the welling source of their pride and self-esteem but in order that it can thrive a psychic and political boundary has to be drawn around it . |
| 23 | Indeed it is this inaccuracy that leads to its often being called a circadian clock ( from the latin , circa — about ; diem — a day ) If it is correctly timed one day , it will be approximately 1 hour late the next , about 2 hours late the day after that , and so on until it will be ‘ useful ’ again after about 3 weeks . |
| 24 | Indeed it is this science fiction/space fantasy motif that runs through his show . |
| 25 | Then what is this nonsense you 're giving me ? ’ |
| 26 | But then what is this habit of trying to penetrate to people 's inner life ? |
| 27 | Erm they 're in no hurry to join but with this second period er from September or was it October and erm once again there is this idea that , you know , the tide is turning and they , they will now join erm they wo n't find it so hard to join as the rich peasants but once again they 're not as enthusiastic and maybe they should be but they are , they are helping more but er er and this is the key er for which you know Mao talked about later is that we 've got to get the middle peasant actually actively involved |
| 28 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
| 29 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 30 | ‘ We are very cautious and do n't want anyone to get hurt and so that is why there is this rule . ’ |