Example sentences of "this is a " in BNC.
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| 31 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 32 | This is a knowledge which has been impugned in literature , and which has deteriorated there . |
| 33 | His first book , If this is a man , about his months in Auschwitz , and its sequel , The Truce , were hard to fault , and the successive publications of his middle age have been greeted by an admiration responsive both to his skills as a writer and to his character as a man.i In October 1985 , however , the chauvinistic American Jewish magazine Commentary did succeed in performing the outlandish act of disparaging Levi and his books . |
| 34 | In this collection of pieces which revert to themes pursued in If this is a man Levi writes : ‘ Desperate , the Jewish survivors , in flight from Europe after the great shipwreck , have created in the bosom of the Arab world an island of Western civilisation , a portentous palingenesis of Judaism , and the pretext for renewed hatred . ’ |
| 35 | It is not clear why this is a reproach to Levi , whose story concerns a man whose piety is idiosyncratic , especially severe . |
| 36 | These remarks concerning If this is a man do not describe the kind of book which runs easily to sequels , and which is easy to live up to . |
| 37 | The book is no sequel to If this is a man , but its explications are never without interest . |
| 38 | If this is a problem , however , it is one the novel shares with many of the novels we now read . |
| 39 | This is a good Scots which is at once distinctly literary and faithful to the speech of the city . |
| 40 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 41 | This is a very well known piece , which needs vivacity and spontaneity in presentation ; Mercutio is enjoying himself , weaving his way through a fantastical set of images . |
| 42 | This is a straight comedy speech ( though the character does not find herself funny ) . |
| 43 | He said , as this is a first offence you will not be sent down , instead , I fine you ten pounds for having a girl on the premises . |
| 44 | This is a play for two characters , Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , the World War One poets , and it would obviously be a good thing to read some of their poetry as a background to performing this piece . |
| 45 | This is a modern version of the Elizabethan ‘ City ’ comedy , a panorama of town life , teeming with villains , mugs , lechers and madmen . |
| 46 | This is a pity , as it means that students find it harder to get their names known , and it means they lose out on a degree of publicity . |
| 47 | And all of this is a problem facing the new actor coming out of training . |
| 48 | This is a totalizing view of society , and implies a certain anti-pluralism : freedom of belief and action within certain parameters , which are to be decided either by those who appear righteous in the sight of God or by those who , at least , conform in their lawmaking to the advice given to them by the righteous . |
| 49 | This is a major reason , in addition to state interventionism , why economic matters precede the issue of Northern Ireland both theoretically and practically in contemporary Irish politics . |
| 50 | Is it an illusion to imagine that this is a merely modern phenomenon ? he wrote . |
| 51 | Pretends he ca n't go anywhere alone and this is a chance for Tony to get some time to himself . |
| 52 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , this is a message from the past . |
| 53 | ‘ SO THIS IS A REAL OLD ENGLISH INN ? ’ |
| 54 | I think this is a fair balance . |
| 55 | This is a controversial issue : hoteliers and restaurateurs are supposed to be running hotels and restaurants , after all , not managing computer systems . |
| 56 | This is a device similar to a normal cassette recorder but which takes bigger tape cassettes , each of which can hold all the data and programs on your computer . |
| 57 | ‘ I know this is a bit of an unusual hobby for a restaurateur , but it 's a little dream come true for me and I 'm thrilled to bits , ’ he says . |
| 58 | Perhaps this is a case of cherchez la femme . |
| 59 | This is a rare opportunity to listen to Tavernier 's ideas about film and about the relationship between European and American cinema , a subject about which he has strong views . |
| 60 | This is a Centre Focus event in collaboration with Birmingham Museums and the Ikon Gallery . |