Example sentences of "of this [is] " in BNC.

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1 And all of this is a problem facing the new actor coming out of training .
2 Much of this is due to the face that , following the recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on pub ownership , many breweries are actually moving out of brewing itself and concentrating instead on pub management — an area where they believe they stand to make the greatest profits .
3 A striking example of this is the list description for The Blue Bell in Fossgate , the last perfectly-surviving Victorian pub interior in York and one of only two pubs left in the city of truly national importance .
4 The great pity of this is that most pubs are old , yet the proper opportunity to celebrate this has already been squandered .
5 An example of this is when it refers to ‘ food business operators ’ which , according to Mr Knowles , is unspecific and far too general a definition .
6 The purpose of this is to provide a more effective deflection .
7 The effect of this is generally to knock the opponent over and earn you a full point .
8 The physical mark of this is to be seen in the indentation between the upper lip and the nose .
9 The clearest example of this is PH 's performance in priming tasks ( Young , Hellawell and De Haan , 1988 ) .
10 An example of this is the basic flat bench press ; by performing the bench press with the bench inclined at an angle of 30°s ; , the emphasis of the exercise is placed on the upper pectorals .
11 Much of this is straightforward : some of it is n't .
12 Part of this is Patrick Dainty 's work on a technology called remote plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition ( RPECVD ) .
13 Evidence of this is in the play he makes with the Virgilian aether and patet ( Aeneid 6 , 127 , 130 ) in the puzzling but impressive Canto 16 .
14 A lot of this is political .
15 However , they are not convinced that the primary cause of this is toxic concentrations of aluminium released into the soil as acidity increased .
16 A prime example of this is the genuine difficulty any Pope would have in recognising that Anglican priests are real priests since this would mean that when Pope Leo XIII declared in 1896 that Anglican orders were ‘ utterly null and void ’ , he was either silly or wrong or both .
17 A widely-cited instance of this is Hopewell Holdings , the construction and property group controlled and managed by Gordon Wu .
18 His Lordship will need to assess whether the nudity involved in the depiction of this is more corrupting to young eyes than the safety of the encounter is exemplary .
19 A dramatic example of this is the publicity given to the secret annexes to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact .
20 None of this is of any comfort to the unions , who are very strongly represented within the PTT and have been united in their rejection of the proposed reforms .
21 And all of this is inevitable , for Utopians are ill at ease at the sharp end of politics .
22 How much of this is psychological is difficult to judge .
23 The effect of this is , curiously for a man who claims to have been ejected from the Library Theatre in Manchester for being overdue with his punchlines , to slow things down .
24 Although Brixton has £180m of borrowings , all but a small proportion of this is borrowed at fixed rates so it does not suffer from higher interest rates .
25 The effect of this is that nobody , some City professionals included , really knows much about any of them .
26 Although much of this is very funny , the laughter is decidedly uneasy , for death is almost always present .
27 All of this is already covered in the Takeover Code .
28 Much of this is conditional on an IMF seal of approval .
29 The advantage of this is that when you start gigging , you have someone out front who knows your songs , and who can either mix your sound or at least keep an eye on the house engineer .
30 The disadvantage of this is that some promoters underadvertise , underpromote , and undermarket the gig to try and put more pounds in their pockets by reducing their expenses .
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