Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good , then , but who is this man ? |
| 2 | Well not many girls but there is this shipping merchant Antonio . |
| 3 | But there is this centre which is right op on Parliament Street opposite Boots and you can go in there and all these leaflets that I 've got come from there , you can get those any time , they also have all the timetables , they also have all , have all the other information and two ladies sitting there , voluntary , er who will phone up and get you any information on any subject that you want . |
| 4 | But there is this thing that all of the forms are in the intellect and all of the forms ah are in the intellect and all of the forms do somehow weave together into some sort of unitary thing . |
| 5 | I do n't know what it 's called but there 's this bit where you go down on the floor like an anteater . |
| 6 | Now , once more looking at the small boy , she said briskly , ‘ Come , make up your mind quick , Bobbie ; I know you 've bought a shipping order tonight but there 's this lady and gentleman waiting to be served . ’ |
| 7 | We 've got this erm I actually do n't know why he 's got this nickname but there 's this guy who lives out in er and he 's got the nickname Seamus O'Reilly . |
| 8 | And she said , No we do different exercises but there 's this amount of high impact . |
| 9 | But there was this sex problem , of course , and there was something else , a rootlessness , an atemporality about my life . |
| 10 | But there was this fear that I 'd become a junkie if I hung out with these people . |
| 11 | These diesel engines are quite easy really , and of course there were pictures in one of the books , although I 'm not sure about these pipes , hydraulics I think it 's called , but there was this book on one of the benches , Workshop Manual , and I 've put grease on things and tidied it up , ’ Dorcas gabbled . |
| 12 | ‘ I was always thinking in The Bangles , I have to be me , but there was this group image I had to conform to , ’ she muses . |
| 13 | But there was this thing about virgins , in class . |
| 14 | But er they were always er well-remembered , and er w Spanish Civil War through , I suppose nowadays , you call them fringe newspapers , but there was this paper we used to get at the tim at the time It was n't the er Morning Star , or even it 's predecessor , erm but you got a paper and you sort of heard the other side . |
| 15 | . But it is this facility of er of you determining that an expense is , is generally for the business , therefore it can be claimed , so |
| 16 | These steps might , at first sight , appear unnecessary and bureaucratic but it is this flow of information between practitioners , even where there is a fee dispute , that enables the ‘ public interest ’ to be upheld . |
| 17 | It is legendary that actuarial training is rigorous and difficult , but it is this depth of training which enables actuaries to take on the responsibility of advising on the financing of future payments involving billions of pounds for insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 18 | For we still believe that our femaleness is a biological entity ; but it is this biology that a century ago wished to remove our clitoris and that continues now to impose upon us a desire that only functions in passive reaction to the actions of men , and that is as a result based in narcissism and masochism . |
| 19 | If it were n't for Lennie , George could have had a peaceful life and have married someone but it is this power of ‘ deep-inside ’ love which kept them together . |
| 20 | But it is this chair , less comfortable , which has remained empty . |
| 21 | But it is this aspect that costs £120,000 |
| 22 | THE WAILERS ' ‘ Catch A Fire ’ was out by then , sure , but it was this soundtrack ( to a fantastic star-shoots-his-way-out-of-the-ghetto film starring Jimmy Cliff ) which finally and unimpeachably established the fact that skinhead ska really had metamorphosed into rude boy reggae and that the island of Jamaica was about to embark on a decade of musical creativity unmatched anywhere before or since . |
| 23 | But it was this battle , won at huge cost by both Tyne Tees and Yorkshire , which finally propelled the companies into each others arms . |
| 24 | This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did . |
| 25 | But what is this paragon of a social anthropologist trying to find out ? |
| 26 | But what was this speed relative to ? |
| 27 | But what was this business he had referred to ? |