Example sentences of "it be this [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's this shoulder stuffed up again . |
| 2 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 3 | I said no Julie I said I have n't I said I would tell you cos I said I , she said to me do ring me and let me know , and I said I said I would and I will , I said no cos I did n't tell her when it were you see , so I said it 's this week coming and I 'll ring you this on Monday , so she said oh it was only , cos she said I saw Deb and Deb wondered , I thought yeah I bet she did she would |
| 4 | It is this knowledge prompted by , and answering to , divinely inspired longing that William Langland gestures towards in Piers Plowman . |
| 5 | It is this contribution foregone which is described as the internal opportunity cost . |
| 6 | It is this propensity to engage in self-critique that is perhaps the key distinguishing feature of the academic community . |
| 7 | It is this willingness to buy anything , and our increasing ability to go into debt to do it , which is helping to power the so-called North American recovery . |
| 8 | In any case , the more pleasing the aroma , the more likely we will relax into the experience of aromatherapy massage — and it is this ability to let go which is the key to the art of true healing . |
| 9 | It is this ability to regenerate that reduces many a garden enthusiast to tears when new flushes of dodder appear , as if from nowhere , on favourite hedges even after they have been pruned bare to get rid of it . |
| 10 | It is this ability to produce flowers throughout the summer and early autumn that ranks them with the true annuals when it comes to creating the most colourful and long lasting planting schemes . |
| 11 | It is this capacity to give meaning which needs to be held on to in considering human behaviour . |
| 12 | But if he can use labour to produce commodities greater in value than he pays the workers then he can make a profit — and it is this Marx refers to as surplus value . |
| 13 | It is this attempt to redesign the genetic instructions of living organisms and utilise them on an industrial scale that is creating so much excitement and concern " . |
| 14 | As it is this confusion has seen many of Mann 's photographs censored across America . |
| 15 | Yet it is this policy making , often particularly that which occurs at the highest level , that receives very much more attention . |
| 16 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was this ability to display a ballerina 's apparent weightlessness and sheer joy in dance that was so impressive when the Spirits of the Air danced in Homage to the Queen , Ashton 's exquisite celebration of the 1952 Coronation which was danced by Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes . |
| 19 | And it was this ability to get straight to the point and to turn conventional wisdom on its head that earned him the respect of so many staff and others with whom he regularly had to confront thorny questions of Amnesty strategy and its relations with governments . |
| 20 | It was this ability to encourage , to amuse and draw attention to individual potential , however slight , which enabled him to make such an impact on the teaching of art in the schools of the West Riding . |
| 21 | And it was this concern to avoid amy sectarian connotations which seems to have been uppermost in the minds of the organisers . |
| 22 | It was this desire to win that dragged and sucked them into the war . |