Example sentences of "[noun] this [is] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 've found that when the water is heavily coloured after a rain storm this is often the case and fish will be caught in bursts as they pass up and down the swim .
2 For an international business like ICI this is particularly the case .
3 The input hypothesis This is probably the core of the whole theory .
4 ‘ Any port in a storm ’ is an often-quoted truism , and for migrant birds this is certainly the case .
5 In practice this is never the case .
6 In essence this is still the procedure used today .
7 For large grammars this is especially the case since the interaction of many rules can cause the system to explode in a combinatorial manner .
8 He then pointed out that the financial-management literature concentrated exclusively on stage 4 , and with a few exceptions this is still the situation today .
9 For the vast majority of individuals this is still the case and they have no need to be concerned about the changes described below .
10 ’ With her qualifications this is hardly the city you 'd choose to come back to in the middle of an economic recession . ’
11 The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) .
12 But in reality this is precisely the approach that is most likely to set Europe aflame and leave it a burning ruin .
13 On the other hand this is exactly the state of mind in which he loves to revel .
14 The difficulties of realisation have not been overcome entirely , but in a rigid and primitive form this is truly the concept of high relief : statues in the round grouped in a two-dimensional composition .
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