Example sentences of "this [noun sg] is [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This link is deliberately or unwittingly overlooked , as is the more serious and general issue of the making of rapists into exciting anti-heros and stars by the press . |
| 2 | Reflection on ( 61 ) reveals that the ordinal adjective first implies that there were none before that time : the meaning of this sentence is therefore that " no one had ever dared insult me before " . |
| 3 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 4 | This Brigade is probably if not the only conservative one , one of a tiny number in the country , that do n't computerize their information systems for fire safety . |
| 5 | The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable . |
| 6 | This lineage is morphologically and phenotypically similar to those observed immediately adjacent to other chronic gastrointestinal ulcers , for example in peptic ulcer and Crohns ' disease . |
| 7 | This fall is largely because of the high growth rates of GDP in the mid-to late 1980s . |
| 8 | Since the role of subjective risk is of particular importance in theories of driving , one part of this question is simply whether drivers are aware of subjective risk , either as a feeling which is occasionally present in immediately dangerous situations but otherwise non-existent ( consistent with a zero-risk theory of driving ) or as a continually fluctuating level which they can be aware of when questioned and which they attempt to match to some target level ( consistent with RHT ) . |
| 9 | The second part of this issue is therefore whether the decision of a visitor can be reviewed for error of law . |
| 10 | The more usual version of this theme is simply that one has a visual image of the part of the body touched . |
| 11 | It is almost as if all the punishment , admonishment and educative pressure which the aboriginal child has been spared up to this moment is suddenly and simultaneously inflicted on him ( here , for once , the masculine pronoun does not embrace the feminine because initiation is an exclusively masculine affair ) . |
| 12 | The reason for this difference is probably that the one wishes to justify cuts in welfare expenditure whereas the other is aiming for more direct state control of industry . |
| 13 | This difference is probably because of the lower energy per pulse transmitted with the piezo electric system compared with the electrohydraulic one . |
| 14 | In the event , the inner-city study demonstrated that ( a ) in this vernacular is phonetically and phonologically much more complicated than standard accounts of EModE /a/ ( such as Dobson , 1968 ) . |
| 15 | This group is exactly as its title , the hostess opens her house to any parents or parents to be , who wish to meet with others . |
| 16 | Between 50 and 60% have a frequency of ventricular ectopics beats of less than I per hour and the 2-year mortality for this group is less than 5% . |
| 17 | But the empirical evidence for this claim is only that the facts can be read consistently with it . |
| 18 | One reason why women are under-represented in this area is undoubtedly that the sociology of deviance has , until recently , concentrated specifically on criminal behaviour . |
| 19 | The model implied by this definition is basically as follows . |
| 20 | The realism of the old heads seems to me strictly in early classical taste , and the raising and overlapping exactly in the spirit of contemporary developments in wall-painting ; and there can be no doubt at all that the design of this gable is directly and powerfully influenced by those developments . |
| 21 | The emphasis in the human rights movement supported by this relativism is more and more in the direction of a hidden pragmatism . |
| 22 | Whether this belief is carefully and officially nurtured I do not know . |
| 23 | The lesson that emerges from this affair is surely that more than ever before , there is a pressing need for complete openness and accountability when restoration work is undertaken . |
| 24 | This style is conventionally and conveniently known as Daedalic , after Daedalus , the first sculptor in Greek tradition . |
| 25 | This probability is lowest when based on short tests under conditions of high acceleration . |
| 26 | Erm , clearly you need to have a detrusor pressure in order to be behind that flow , and if this pressure is less than fifty then I think it 's unlikely that there 's much in the way of obstruction . |
| 27 | This phenomenon is simply but unhelpfully called the demographic effect . |
| 28 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 29 | This problem is only because you 're doing them retrospectively , if you were up to date you would n't have a problem at all would you ? |
| 30 | The point of doing all this pre-planning is so that when you come to align columns across the page or to set text next to pictures everything snaps together neatly . |