Example sentences of "[adv] this [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably this is fairly obvious . |
| 2 | Economically this is still a rational choice . |
| 3 | Important events require some preparation if we are to make the most of them and arguably this is more true of retirement than of any other stage . |
| 4 | Right this is extremely easy to reduce . |
| 5 | It was then that it was bomb damaged , although apparently this was largely restricted to the toilets ! |
| 6 | Basically this is simply a reversal of black figure . |
| 7 | Or perhaps this is just the wisdom of hindsight , a rosy blur of sentiment cast by nostalgia over the scene . |
| 8 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 9 | Depression : " My efforts are useless and there is nothing I can do " v. Acceptance : " Perhaps this is just the way it is and my life must go on " . |
| 10 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 11 | Perhaps this is all too heavy for you ? ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps this is now an old-fashioned view ; but posterity can judge what is good music-making and what are merely the trends of a particular time . |
| 13 | ‘ Or perhaps this is now a permanent state . |
| 14 | Perhaps this is only a witty pleasantry ; it may also be the delight this woman takes in her young friend 's success . |
| 15 | Many homes , in Great Britain at least ( and perhaps this is more true of the private sector ) , still offer no privacy for the elderly who do not have their own rooms , who have no locks on the lavatories and who have to suffer the indignity of being bathed and examined by a non-qualified member of staff of the opposite sex . |
| 16 | Perhaps this is due more to the quality of visual imagination displayed by the director , Michael Powell , and the designer , Hein Heckroth , than the technology credited to F George Dunn ( special photographic effects ) and D Hague ( Technicolor composite photography ) , expert though they were . |
| 17 | Perhaps this was just as well since the jolly but rather juvenile japes her sister embarked upon might not have pleased her . |
| 18 | Perhaps this was just a new form of indigestion . |
| 19 | Perhaps this was best articulated in the course of the presidential address to the Association by Sidney Lee in 1918 . |
| 20 | However , as the writer recognized , perhaps this was no longer a convincing reason . |
| 21 | Perhaps this was too sinister for the judges ' tastes ? |
| 22 | Perhaps this was only because he had never had reason to he until he met Mr Evans , but he was n't afraid of him , even after that first , dreadful night , because Mr Evans had false teeth that clicked when he talked . |
| 23 | Perhaps this was merely a ruse to trick them into a crossing at Forteviot . |
| 24 | Perhaps this was enough . |
| 25 | They 've actually gone from a full service back to this level because this is what they 've found is what people need and obviously this is surely what we should be able to do , erm I think that you know by providing the extra ten thousand my concern now is that we actually make sure that our offices are fully covered here . |
| 26 | Obviously this is computationally infeasible ( and was never implemented ) . |
| 27 | Now there 's , obviously this is quite a , th there 's a lot of violence involved in this , the targets are being hit and i it 's not political actually it 's active , people on the streets erm there are some people being killed , there 's |
| 28 | Obviously this is highly selective , and has an uncertain relationship to non-documentary reality ; this might be called the problem of ‘ rose-tinted documentation ’ . |
| 29 | Chairman , could I just mention to the Committee , on Shropshire child care links , erm , the County Council of course , is also the registration body that erm , registers childminders and day care , and erm , while obviously this is very much to be supported and ties in with Social Services ' own requirements to promote child care , it should not be seen , and we should perhaps , Bruce make a , we can have discussions with , we should be careful to endorse , the giving of this money does n't necessarily imply or endorse the standards of the people on their books , who may be people that the County Council in another arm , are investigating and in some cases , taking action to close down . |
| 30 | Obviously this is only a general rule : in particular , where the goods are complicated , or where the normal course of dealing would so indicate , it may be relatively easy to establish that the parties did not intend their agreement to become binding until other details were finalised ; this issue is examined further in Chapter 4 , 6 below . |