Example sentences of "this is [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to 468 yards with a ridge and bunkers on the dog-leg . |
| 2 | However , as table 5.2 and figure 5.2 show , the other very important component of the trend is that more people than before are living to be very old , into the high eighties and nineties , and this is to some degree due to changing mortality trends at later ages . |
| 3 | It is in fact the commercially provided infrastructure that is most lacking , and many people live a long way from a shop , although this is to some extent made up for by mobile shops . |
| 4 | While this is to some extent true , it does not mean that workers in small firms are not expected to show family-style loyalties . |
| 5 | Although this is to some extent true of all financial intermediation , it is particularly relevant to the operations of pension funds . |
| 6 | This is to some extent contradicted by Lloyd George , who subsequently wrote : ‘ It is now a matter of history how we expressed our readiness to serve under Mr Balfour-all of us except Mr Asquith , who asked indignantly , ‘ What is the proposal ? |
| 7 | Although this is to some extent part of any clinical consultation , it can be approached more quantitatively . |
| 8 | This is to misrepresent religion . |
| 9 | I have mentioned research , and this is of prime importance in gold prospecting . |
| 10 | This is of major importance . |
| 11 | This is of real interest to me , since I am currently running a study into tourism ( we have convened an expert advisory group ) in order to influence the new ‘ Tourism 2000 ’ strategy being prepared by the Wales Tourist Board . |
| 12 | All this is of great significance for exploring Leonard 's characteristics , for what was natural to Leonard 's incipient viewpoint and versification now found stimulating and corroborative encouragement . |
| 13 | This is of great significance to our understanding of children as writers . |
| 14 | Minimising — acceptance that the sufferer has a problem and that there are some consequences in the family but refusal to accept that any of this is of great significance or that the family can not cope from within its own resources . |
| 15 | This is of great advantage to good horse trainers , but a real bane to poor ones . |
| 16 | This is of great interest from the aromatherapy viewpoint because there is no risk of solvent residues in the resulting extraction . |
| 17 | This is of great interest since perfect contestability " turns out to have important efficiency properties . |
| 18 | This is of great importance in providing a basis for the cultivation of cereals and the grazing of animals in an area where opportunities for agriculture are severely restricted . |
| 19 | This is of great importance in practice because planning permissions are invariably granted subject to a condition that the permitted development is begun within a stipulated time . |
| 20 | Note that this is of limited use as it implies that the data is held only in the index or in the main file . |
| 21 | It is assumed that they will act responsibly , and if there is maladministration or corruption there is the right of appeal to the ombudsman or the courts , though in practice this is of limited use . |
| 22 | This is of limited use in personal injury work where these items can not be recovered separately on a taxation . |
| 23 | If this is of limited interest , say a knitting wool , you would find it wasteful to go on TV because so many viewers would not be knitters . |
| 24 | In telling such stories , people display the ways in which they think about health and illness , and this is of central interest to this study . |
| 25 | This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action . |
| 26 | This is of little significance if it does not meet the expectations of the users , who are the customers . |
| 27 | For aquifers with a high carbonate content this is of little consequence , but in other aquifers the acidity of the subsurface water resulting from its sulphate content can persist to depths of several metres and can result in metals such as aluminium being leached into shallow groundwater . |
| 28 | This is of little consequence to grubs and maggots , for they hold their interminable feasts out of sight of the rest of the world , gobbling their way around the heart of an apple or gnawing tunnels in wood , shielded by what they are eating . |
| 29 | This is of little importance since in practice only two shares will be subscribed for . |
| 30 | This is of little use for problems with more than two variables . |