Example sentences of "[adv] this [is] [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 However , once an apprentice or assistant is taken on this is no longer true .
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 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 .
18 Obviously this is computationally infeasible ( and was never implemented ) .
19 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
20 Obviously this is highly selective , and has an uncertain relationship to non-documentary reality ; this might be called the problem of ‘ rose-tinted documentation ’ .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 So this is just , this is just virtually there , you ca n't get through that way anywhere ?
24 So this is very much part of the mass line .
25 so this is very much a refresher course
26 We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through
27 Right , so this is always a positive number , so it 's always one minus a positive number .
28 So this is as big as we could get without it falling apart , so it 's a nice handleable book , though a little heavy .
29 So this is actually this first form here is an application for the scheme
30 So this is definitely home .
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