Example sentences of "[vb past] this [be] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 2 | Adam realized this was not the time to bring it out in the open . |
| 3 | As it transpired this was not the best way to support the staff with their problems of low morale . |
| 4 | Chalk on the lay-off indicated this was probably the right line , though it looked tricky for HVS . |
| 5 | I went this is n't the industrial estate ! |
| 6 | He would have liked to have driven his dagger straight into the interfering clerk 's throat but knew this was not the time nor the occasion . |
| 7 | He also knew this was not the moment to tell her what he 'd learnt today . |
| 8 | Before I read the book , I thought this was exactly the opposite of the truth . |
| 9 | One very quick point , sorry erm I do n't want to sound as if I feel I can but er I welcome your comment at the beginning the condition be be left out on what 's going on because I thought this was actually the key function of this committee and I mean I see these are being decision has been taken . |
| 10 | One veteran observer of the New York museum scene summarised the insular society 's predicament : ‘ During the 60s , 70s and 80s when all other institutions realised that there was no way that they could build up an endowment without catering to the masses and without appealing to the federal government , museums went with cap in hand ; they saw this was now the game . |
| 11 | On the evidence of the range of writers discussed this is not the case . |
| 12 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 13 | A spokeswoman said this was why the event had been scrapped . |