Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women still , on the whole , have to achieve more than men to get to the same level in certain ways , but I think basically it 's this question of choice . |
| 2 | ‘ Or perhaps it 's this city , ’ he says . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |
| 7 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was this atmosphere , coupled with Max Jacob 's fierce Catholicism , that led Modigliani to seek out his roots . |
| 9 | this this road comes , well there 's the Hippodrome there or was , I do n't suppose it 's there now and you go , at this road here so it 's this way on the West Derby Road comes this way |
| 10 | So it 's this kind of vague offstage ‘ others ’ who seem to have the power in that case . |
| 11 | So it 's this idea of capturing animals , a poem is like a wild animal and if you really conjure it up carefully . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it was this group that determined which records would be played on request programmes . |
| 13 | Now they 're this size |
| 14 | I know , I think after Christmas I 'm gon na go and have a look for some dresses and you see when it was an ordinary colour I was gon na have ivory but now it 's this colour I think i 'll be better having having white , I do n't know . |
| 15 | Very often it is this rod that gets a bite . |
| 16 | Well we are this end , but I mean they have a bit of trouble down down there by the club |
| 17 | Surely it is this sort of ‘ disgrace ’ that the council should be paying attention to . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And then I was this music 's gon na come down |
| 20 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Indeed it is this science fiction/space fantasy motif that runs through his show . |
| 24 | Indeed it was this failure which led ultimately to her rejection by the Conservative party which , remembering Disraeli 's warning that ‘ the Conservative party is a national party , or it is nothing ’ , was alarmed by the hostility she aroused in half the nation . |
| 25 | Indeed it was this book more than any other which caused Laslett to retract his statement of 1956 that ‘ political philosophy is dead ’ |
| 26 | Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention . |
| 27 | Again it is this incomprehension of social mobility which seems to have caused my ACC to describe an officer who took a degree and then left to become a solicitor as ‘ a bad experience for the force ’ ( and not a gain for society ) . |
| 28 | As much as anything else it is this room for rational argument and passionate controversy which gives the study of History such colour , interest and value . |
| 29 | Certainly it is this year . |
| 30 | Therefore it is this God , created within the period of earthly life , and free from superstitious speculation about the origins of the universe , that provides the potential strength of the Alternative Religion . |