Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smile at the watching people and say she is always this way at bedtime . |
| 2 | It is however this very flexibility of the jurisdiction concept which , if pushed too far , contains the seeds of its own destruction , or at least redundancy . |
| 3 | ‘ If we have made a mistake , it is simply this : we did not tackle the education issue early enough . |
| 4 | It is simply this . |
| 5 | It is doubtless this new set of social relations which constituted the main attraction of the Soviet experiment in the 1930s for intellectuals such as Aragon and Nizan . |
| 6 | It is particularly this aspect of BSL structure which not only creates the concentration of meaning in a few glosses but is frequently brought into use by deaf people . |
| 7 | It is largely this ability of the entire enterprise to pull together which gave rise to , and strengthened the myth : somehow , ‘ Laura Ashley ’ represented all that was best in traditional Britain . |
| 8 | It is largely this lag that initiates demographic transition but other factors undoubtedly complicate the picture . |
| 9 | And that 's the way it is again this year — everybody is happy with what I am doing . |
| 10 | If there has been one major impediment to successful religious achievement by humankind throughout the ages , it is surely this completely false assumption that the god to be worshipped was also creator of all matter , and of all life . |
| 11 | It is surely this trend in South Africa which must be resisted by those who love rugby around the world . |
| 12 | It is probably this incidental side-effect of education which has given currency to another widespread heresy of our times : that education is desirable because it promotes economic growth . |
| 13 | It is probably this which accounts for the menu price rises . |
| 14 | This is most noticeably the case when we examine education ( chapter 12 ) , and it is probably this situation which comes closest to a monitor situation . |
| 15 | However , it is probably this stage which separates interpreters from ordinary individuals . |
| 16 | But before Read v. Lyons , the courts had gone further , holding that even a non-occupier may sue for personal injuries under the rule , and it is probably this development that their lordships had in mind . |
| 17 | It is primarily this area of work which has prompted many supporting agencies to identify with WACC and give it financial resources . |
| 18 | It is also this force that converts the motion of a turbine into the electrical output of a generator . |
| 19 | It is also this sudden change in the quality , not just the quantity , of managerial work that subordinates accept as a natural and appropriate break in the continuum of hierarchy . |
| 20 | It is just this which allows subversive potential to parodic repetition but which also means that the parody will typically be inflected with the ambivalence I have described and , partly because of that ambivalence , oscillate between the political and the anarchic . |
| 21 | It is just this denial of anything beyond what is directly given in experience that marks Berkeley out as an empiricist . |
| 22 | But it is just this sort of research which is hardly being practised at all ( with a few exceptions : Conyers 1971 ; Okigbo 1981 ; , and a bibliography on farm systems by Gilbert , Norman & Winch 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Any who dare to question this are quickly dealt with by being accused of faithlessness , invoking that frighteningly powerful guilt feeling instilled into the human mind whilst the individual is still very young , and it is just this abuse of childhood which is so surely the primary cause of failure to reduce the constant renewal of the horrors of war . |
| 24 | It is just this protection that has been the justification for farrowing pens . |
| 25 | It is just this point that is made by Lado , whose approach to language teaching is so often represented as directly opposed to the development of communicative abilities : |
| 26 | But it is just this sort of judgment which those who argue for a unfudgeable standard do not wish to see exercised . |
| 27 | However , it is just this situation which allows us to detect the uncertainties and ambiguities in the minds of most citizens as they think about ‘ the nation ’ . |
| 28 | Yet it is just this kind of assumption , unsupported by any fieldwork , that is responsible for the proposal for the further Directive . |
| 29 | If Hume 's argument proves anything , it is just this : that the assumption of identity can not be explained in terms of the conditions under which the empirical things of the common sense world are re-identified ; in particular , it can not be explained in terms of similarities between perceptions and ideas . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , let's pretend it is just this once all right ? |