Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill did you know that there 's nothing on this tape ? |
| 2 | ‘ There 's nothing on this earth that I want more than to make love to you , but , if I do , later you 'll regret it . ’ |
| 3 | Can I ask erm what 's happening to the Harlow Playhouse based Youth theatre cos obviously that has left a big gap in performances cos there 's nothing in this programme . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's nothing in this world that I 'm afraid of , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ least of all anything I might have to say to you . ’ |
| 5 | Because they 're a private school , they can take anybody they like — which is me in this case . ’ |
| 6 | There is nothing about this combination of themes which marks it out as the exclusive preserve of the right . |
| 7 | I just hope that there is nothing to this Werner business . |
| 8 | In the same letter he refers to ‘ a passionate expression uttered incautiously in the Poem upon the Wye ’ ( see p. 88 ) and adds significantly : ‘ Unless I am greatly mistaken , there is nothing of this kind in The Excursion . ’ |
| 9 | The assumption is that there is only one possible explanation of our saying this : namely , that we believe that the man 's utterance is the result of encoding something that exists at a pre-linguistic level , namely a thought , and that in the case of the parrot there is nothing at this level . |
| 10 | A police spokesman said : ‘ There is nothing at this time to suggest any suspicious circumstances . ’ |
| 11 | I would advise such readers not to lose heart : there is nothing in this book which can not be grasped by an 11-year-old who employs a little application : I know , because I 've tested it on an 11-year-old . |
| 12 | They 've made a great start , but five shots after one round is nothing in this tournament . ’ |
| 13 | She agreed with Gilbert that the souls of the dead are in the hand of God and , as for herself , she was persuaded that there is nothing in this world or out of it which can separate us from the love of God . |
| 14 | There is nothing in this phrase with which David Owen could quarrel . |
| 15 | There is nothing like this countryside in the England of the twentieth century ( though rural Ireland is somewhat similar ) . |
| 16 | ‘ THERE is nothing like this feeling , I am shaking all over . |
| 17 | That 's yours in this morning is it ? |
| 18 | This is yours in this morning ? |
| 19 | Well there 's nobody in this school has it like Polly did . |
| 20 | There 's nobody in this world more sorry for you at times than I am , for you could have been a real good-lookin' , strappin' fella . |
| 21 | There 's nobody in this room who could n't win a sprint race against a sumo wrestler now , without any practice , even in stockinged feet you could do it . |
| 22 | There is nobody in this camp who runs . |
| 23 | As Guha points out , there is none of this management ego trip stuff of going upmarket so that people compliment you on your Littlewoods tie when you go to the golf club . |
| 24 | Of course , not all operas are ideally suited to such treatment , but Karajan s stage productions tended to centre on repertoire that is itself within this tradition of the Gesamtkunstwerk : above all , the works of Wagner , Richard Strauss , Debussy , certain Puccini operas , and , perhaps more controversially , Verdi . |
| 25 | And they reckon what , what it , that 's all it 's going to be a three hour test I do n't agree with putting a child of that age through a test I mean there 's none of this nursery pick out who is slow on what , where , why and when , who 's good at something who 's , who 's not so good at it , erm apparently and er , put a seven year old through this exam , find out what they 're good at and what they 're not , well the teachers obviously are n't doing their jobs very well . |
| 26 | Now , there 's none of this nonsense ! |
| 27 | There is something about this place which reeks of ancient sin and , the sooner our task is completed , the better . ’ |
| 28 | There is something in this approach . |
| 29 | There is something in this country that fails to nourish them . ’ |
| 30 | There is something in this pattern of behaviour that is very reminiscent of some addictive or compulsive behaviours . |