Example sentences of "this [is] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly worrying at a time when environmental effects , which do not feature in the financial balance sheet of an energy project , are becoming a focus for widespread concern and protest . |
| 2 | This is particularly critical at a time when the agency is seeking to implement a report prepared by a team of management consultants which emphasises the importance of ‘ seizing the challenge of change ’ in a deliberate bid to alter the direction of the organisation . |
| 3 | Indeed , this is particularly relevant to a run-time recognition application , since data can only be meaningfully processed in one direction anyway ( i.e. left-to-right ) . |
| 4 | However , if we can not influence events where people actually work poor standards will result and this is particularly true during a recession as many of us here no doubt know . |
| 5 | This is particularly true for a defensive system based on comparatively small , independent units , armed with short-range weapons . |
| 6 | This is particularly true for a barrier maintained breeding facility . |
| 7 | This is particularly likely in a horse who shies suddenly when he is frightened by something he can not identify . |
| 8 | This is particularly important at a time when there is little mobility in the education service . |
| 9 | This is particularly important at a time when we as trainers are concerned with the ‘ communicative approach ’ to language teaching ; when there are no specific methods , there is no one way of doing things , when a eclecticism rules , when almost everything the teacher does is fine provided it involves variety , the use of authentic language and authentic materials based on the learning needs of the individual and achieves effective communication — whatever this may mean . |
| 10 | This is particularly important in a three-act ballet where any temptation to display dance ‘ for its own sake ’ can lead to the introduction of divertissements merely to fill in time or show off all the dancers in the company , but is not concerned with the unfolding of the story . |
| 11 | This is particularly important in a field where many of the demands made by users are highly specialized in nature . |
| 12 | This is even more of a problem : it will not only damage the perspective of the learner but it will also effectively bar him from experience of the full language , since the native users will be unwilling to use it in his presence . |
| 13 | This is generally available with a choice of coloured lenses which give a single colour fountain . |
| 14 | This is partly due to a belief that flu jabs do not offer much protection . |
| 15 | This is partly due to a real loss of features in the countryside as a result of modern agricultural practices , and partly due to the present policy of the Ordnance Survey . |
| 16 | This is partly due to an increase in the amount of blood circulating in her body ( it may be noted that the number of red corpuscles does not increase — hence the condition of very mild anaemia which usually develops ) . |
| 17 | In 8 out of 10 cf/cf caeca , frusemide led to a slight increase in short-circuit current ( SSC ) ( c , upper record ) ; this is probably due to a blockage of K + secretion and is typical of the caecum of cf/cf mice . |
| 18 | The undercarriage appears to have a fairly narrow track , but this is probably more of an illusion due to the colossal length of the wings . |
| 19 | Hyper-transfusion or even exchange transfusion with normal blood can lower the proportion of HbS sufficiently to greatly reduce the incidence of sickling crises , but this is most useful as a short-term measure , for example in pregnancy or as prophylaxis before and during major surgery . |
| 20 | This is most important in an emergency , its position should be remembered and it should never be boarded up . |
| 21 | This is largely due to a drop in foreign trade deficit and a rise in net income on services and grants . |
| 22 | ‘ We think this is largely due to a lack of understanding of prostitution and the issues surrounding it . ’ |
| 23 | But this is frequently more of a rationalization by reluctant managers . |
| 24 | NeXT , as ever , told Reuters that this is just one of a number of licensing deals it is discussing . |
| 25 | Construct ( e ) refers to the extent of the construct used by ( 32 ) d haplotype ; this is also similar to a slightly longer construct reported in ( 30 ) k haplotype . |
| 26 | this is also suitable as a refresher course . |
| 27 | This is pretty low for a speculative investment and assumes the company is capitalised at 12.5 times earnings in the year to 31 March 2017 . |
| 28 | This is sometimes due to a generally secretive approach but it is probably more often because of a fear of being made to appear inadequate at the hands of an experienced interviewer . |
| 29 | This is entirely consistent with a wealth of clinical evidence which indicates that the integrity of the right cerebral hemisphere is more important than that of the left for carrying out visuo-spatial tasks ( Milner , 1965 ; Newcombe , 1969 ; Benton , 1969a ; De Renzi , Faglioni and Scotti , 1971 ; Taylor and Warrington , 1973 ; Hécaen and Albert , 1978 ) . |
| 30 | This is entirely appropriate to a form of academic work which spent much effort in locating and charting such diverse elements as well as increasingly concerning itself with the principles of their harmonious unification within the text . |