Example sentences of "it [be] this [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because in that paper there is a passage where Trivers says , if my theory is right , and basically it 's this Trivers Willard thing he was talking about , that parents and offspring will be in conflict about parental investment , he says , if my theory is right and if parents discriminate investment on the basis of offspring success , then he makes two predictions . |
| 2 | fucking laugh , so I said to her no I said it is this week Julie I said and it 's towards the end of the week but I 'll ring you by the weekend and let you know , well of course come the Thursday morning I have n't seen Val , and I was ever so upset because it really the end of the line money wise , I could n't do any more |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 4 | ‘ He must tell the judiciary that it was this accountant Morris who abused the trust the firm showed in him . ’ |
| 5 | ( It was this Thomas Peall who , while still at College in 1795 , produced glanders in an ass by placing the discharge from a farcy ulcer inside the nostrils ) . |