Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [be] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Where you been this morning then ?
2 We were short anyway , always are , and I thought , right Connie , I 'll know where you are this afternoon at any rate .
3 That , together with the continuing recession , explains why we are this year having a very tight year , financially .
4 I think , yeah I think , that , that he 's structured and like the , like plays like King Lear , where there 's this sort of unspoken erm good guy at the top that sees that anything is punished that 's bad , and people get their just desserts .
5 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 .
6 ‘ We are very cautious and do n't want anyone to get hurt and so that is why there is this rule . ’
7 So for an adequate description and explanation of the penal crisis , we need to explore why there is this perception of injustice , and even to ask whether this perception is correct .
8 So it 's very very easy in that context for adults to exploit children 's compliance and er it 's easy for kids to be able to not refuse adults ' advances and I suppose that 's why there 's this business about erm y'know it 's it 's not possible for kids to give informed consent to sex .
9 By the way any idea as to why there was this sense of Deja Vu when reviewing Kings Quest VI ?
10 Nevertheless she was subject , with all her kind , to the overall rules : chiefly to that most irritating of all which maintains ‘ You shall not know , you shall not wholly understand why it is this way .
11 I do n't know what happened to Dowd — my bum-boy I think you called him , Alice — but wherever he is this thing took his place . ’
12 Mrs Blakey would immediately tell her husband and Mr Blakey would immediately go to wherever it was this boy lived and warn him that if he did n't stop the police would be informed .
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