Example sentences of "this [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 2 | Within a cell what happens is this right a cell , what happens is that erm D N A is copied on to something called erm R N A , which is a kind of template , messenger R N A , it 's a kind of copy and it 's a single strand , corresponding to one of the strands on the original D N A with the same base structure . |
| 3 | To do this successfully the choreographer must be able to select from the ‘ aggregation of objects ’ only those which are appropriate to the ballet in hand . |
| 4 | We thought this rather a joke but his concern was academic , not snobbish . |
| 5 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 6 | After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place . |
| 7 | Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ? |
| 8 | Or is this merely an unexpectedly concentrated pay-off for Christie 's long-standing ( since 1766 ) rapport with the oldest and grandest British families ? |
| 9 | And there was a very long corridor with a mo what must have been I should think five , there was no sixth form , so there 'd be five classes , five classrooms off this long the hallway perhaps as wide as this room which is what thirteen feet . |
| 10 | now Mr what I 'm asking you about is the space see how I 'm speaking out so try and speak up like this so the jury can hear . |
| 11 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 12 | And we really have kept this down a barest minimum . |
| 13 | Enter the formula +E2/ ( 1+$B$2 ) ∘D2 into F2 and copy this down the column from F2 to F2 … |
| 14 | we had to plaster it underneath because erm he had to , we just had wires like this down the end ? |
| 15 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 16 | In general this only a problem if you want to change leads with a weaker climber . |
| 17 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 18 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 19 | I am careful to make this only the slightest of tints , then from the top down I was in a tone of cerulean fading out into the orange . |
| 20 | This obviously a highly specialised list and some care old need to be taken to find out exactly which publications are ever likely to cover the subject and who these publications will be the most useful contact . |
| 21 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 22 | Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline . |
| 23 | But neither is this necessarily the case . |
| 24 | Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ? |
| 25 | Is this perhaps a comment on the inadequacy of the law and the difficulty of policing and getting convictions ? |
| 26 | Is this perhaps the only conception of rationality which is viable in the late twentieth century ? |
| 27 | The Kenyans have gone to enormous trouble to make this not a murder . ’ |
| 28 | Bryan Gould , the Labour Trade and Industry spokesman , questioned : ‘ Is this not a further example of the sort of conglomerate merger that has served British industry so ill in the past ? ’ |
| 29 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 30 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |