Example sentences of "[that] [pron] be this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 2 | Erm , that sounds very persuasive to all of us nowadays and I fully believe it , that part of what makes me me is in fact er the fact that I 'm this shape and this size |
| 3 | Now the other reason why of course you wo n't perhaps erm drive naturally is because of this little bit of tension at the fact that who 's this person sitting here looking at what I 'm doing ? and it it 's putting me off . |
| 4 | That is , we initially categorise them as this or that type of person and interpret or distort subsequent information to confirm that s/he is this type of person . |
| 5 | You have absolutely nothing at all to do with it , and I resent sometimes the implications that there is this kind of artificial competitiveness amongst actors , because it 's been my experience that it does n't exist . |
| 6 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 7 | Of course it is not surprising that there is this incongruence . |
| 8 | Well I 'm disappointed that there is this lack of reassurance . |
| 9 | and erm that there is this upsurge and he , he goes on , in a very short time in ce central , southern and northern provinces , I E the whole of China , several hundred million peasants will rise up like a mighty storm , like a hurricane , a force so swift and violent no power however great will be able to hold it back . |
| 10 | But , but he is saying that there is this process under way , this revolutionary process of overthrowing the system as it stands . |
| 11 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 12 | Imagine then that there 's this group of people , if , can you see now , it 's made like a fish bone , and that , that 's the whole idea , a fish bone diagram . |
| 13 | I had a small breather in which to feel pleased that there was this part of me that could take over , like an automatic pilot , and carry on as usual . |
| 14 | How did you how d how did it arise that there was this degree of cooperation ? |
| 15 | I presided over a the Criminal Law Revision Committee when we reviewed the law relating to rape and we discovered that there was this myth that women asked for rape . |
| 16 | Yes , I 've just remembered the point I was going to make erm I 've certainly felt from Frankie Rickford 's article that there was this myth , adults have to get it right , that we have to know the answers . |
| 17 | that there was this change of policy in the Chinese Communist Party . |
| 18 | Erm all I 'm sure about is that there was this change going on in the rurar econ |
| 19 | Er and I noticed that there was this change . |
| 20 | It is striking that there was this shift from principle to aesthetic response as the war progressed . |
| 21 | I replied that there was this flaw about the bubbles being bigger than the universe , but that the basic idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good . |
| 22 | I 'd read an article by Jon Mendlesohn in Rolling Stone , which emanated from a trip he took to Los Angeles the year before , which must have been about 1970 , that said that there was this guy who did weird songs and dressed up in dresses . |
| 23 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 24 | How can I avoid seeing that it is this kind of government that threatens my grandchildren ? ’ |
| 25 | They go on to note that it is this feature of the market that necessitates detailed regulation to protect the interests of the shareholders , a principal objective of the City Code on Take-overs and Mergers being , for instance , to ensure a fair distribution of the take-over premium among the members . |
| 26 | I believe that each of us has what I term a spirit ( but which I am quite happy for others to call the soul , the higher self , the inner self — or any of dozens of different names ) and that it is this spirit which has a journey to make through several lifetimes . |
| 27 | Dora says that it is this originality which is one of the strengths of Le Mystere ; ‘ Most of the women have no real training as singers . |
| 28 | In the case of Venus thermal tides make a very large contribution and it can be shown that it is this component of the overall circulation that may drive the 4–5 day zonal circulation and thus speed up the axial spin ( section 4.2 ) . |
| 29 | wolf suggests that it is this sector that provides the catalyst for rebellion and he shows how , in six major revolutions in the world , it is the middle peasantry who have formed the pivotal group for peasant action . |
| 30 | When a speaker takes the trouble to use a restrictive relative clause in a noun phrase equipped with a definite article but no attributive adjective , it will naturally be presumed that it is this clause which makes recognition possible ; there is no need for such an assumption when the clause is non-restrictive . |