Example sentences of "this [is] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is self-consciously an escapist activity , its main value being that it avoids the careful budgeting and penny-counting which shopping itself entails . |
| 2 | This is particularly an issue with emerging technologies which are not yet able to provide seamless integration into the corporation 's wider electronic world . |
| 3 | This is both an interesting and picturesque site , and one that is now well cared for by people who fortunately appreciate its significance . |
| 4 | This is both an interesting topic in itself and a theoretically important one ; for one of the questions I will ask about linguistic reform is what constraints and limitations there might be on its effectiveness . |
| 5 | People want to read about something different and with Mainz central to the rest of Europe this is both an important and controversial plant site . |
| 6 | This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of committee decisions ; |
| 7 | This is both an opportunity and a challenge for management . |
| 8 | In practice however , this is generally an unsatisfactory arrangement since the grips damage the metal and cause premature failure at the ends so that the result is unreliable . |
| 9 | This is surely an unsatisfactory way of dealing with these cases , where the degree of emotional disturbance is likely to be no less than that involved in most provocation cases . |
| 10 | This is surely an insight worth taking up by scholars of the subsequent period . |
| 11 | This is rather an unusual request . |
| 12 | This is rather an |
| 13 | Forty-one per cent of the known opioid users were also known to have taken other types of drug , although this is probably an underestimate since some agencies do not routinely record or receive information about all drugs used by people on their files . |
| 14 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 15 | Bulmer concludes that this is probably an ‘ oversimplified view ’ ( p. 71 ) , focusing too strongly on the functional characteristics of the places and ignoring ( relatively , at least ) the nature of the local culture and its institutional structuring ( as , for example , with the nature and role of trades unions ) . |
| 16 | May I say Sandra I think this is probably an Inland Revenue ruling . |
| 17 | This is probably an aberrant copy ; but it may just represent a true 1692 state with the stage/page discrepancies in Act 1 already made good . |
| 18 | Although this is largely an innate ability , particularly well developed in a few people , we can all develop sensitivity in general ( which will help our massage skills ) by such means as meditation , deep relaxation and nature attunements ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 19 | This is largely an individual matter . |
| 20 | As far as the public interest theory of regulation is concerned , this is largely an implicit rather than explicit model . |
| 21 | By definition this is largely an enterprise of elders and women who are charged with transmitting these traditions to a new generation . |
| 22 | Meisel 's criticism centres on the notion that the ruling elite is claimed to be a class ; this is already an important point in Pareto 's theory , and with Mosca the flaw becomes a fatal one , for he founds the power of the elite precisely on their greater organisational capacity , with necessary implications for their internal characteristics . |
| 23 | ‘ This is already an area of outstanding natural beauty and we would welcome the extra money without the extra bureaucracy . ’ |
| 24 | Entertainment of company clients may take place at the property , although this is just an assumption . |
| 25 | It is often said that this is just an example of Swiss discretion in business , but in my view we have begun to believe that works acquired abroad are somehow superior . |
| 26 | The toxin may or may not be present in strains of er C diphtheria and this is just an immunological test so I wo wo n't explain it in detail but what you can see is a a strip of er , filter paper which has been bathed in anti-toxin and growth of various different strains of the organism erm which , some of which do produce the toxin you can see lines of precipitation here and some of which do n't produce the toxin . |
| 27 | They stress , however , that this is just an overall industry average and that , as market share accounts for only about 14 per cent of the dispersion of ROI among businesses , other factors need to be considered . |
| 28 | This is just an excellent piece of acting , that 's all . |
| 29 | Anyway , the these erm , numbers do n't matter , this is just an arbitrary example . |
| 30 | And , of course , I mean , we have , have to remember , that when we talk about ageing altruism , this is just an abstraction . |