Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly an issue with emerging technologies which are not yet able to provide seamless integration into the corporation 's wider electronic world . |
| 2 | This is surely an insight worth taking up by scholars of the subsequent period . |
| 3 | By definition this is largely an enterprise of elders and women who are charged with transmitting these traditions to a new generation . |
| 4 | ‘ This is already an area of outstanding natural beauty and we would welcome the extra money without the extra bureaucracy . ’ |
| 5 | This is just an excuse for him to walk |
| 6 | Well , of course , Darwin really had no answer to that and today we today we do because nowadays we know how evolution works , and erm what we now know that Darwin did not know , is that the genetic code is based , this is just an illustration from a standard book , you can find this in more or less any , any book . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He did a load of different experiments , this is just an example of one of them . |
| 9 | ‘ Darlington and SouthWest Durham pioneered the concept almost two years ago and this is just an extension of that , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 10 | Another area addressed by the survey was the additional assessment , which is a feature of all general SVQs at levels II and III , and this is clearly an issue of concern to some centres . |
| 11 | This is clearly an area of some difficulty for translators working from or into a topic-prominent language such as Korean , Japanese , or Chinese . |
| 12 | This is primarily an issue of construction but it may involve also a question as to how far , if at all , the powers of the court in respect of litigation costs can curtail a contractual right of recovery . |
| 13 | This is simply an overspilling of sexual activity under conditions of extreme frustration , and the animals which have been seen to perform in this way have also been observed to copulate normally afterwards , if mates are provided . |
| 14 | This is simply an agreement by each creditor to hold off and not to press his claim for settlement for an agreed period as long as the other creditors do likewise . |
| 15 | This is simply an argument for regional policies . |
| 16 | In our theory this is simply an example of the competitive process at work . |
| 17 | At least one of these has the question ‘ Please list your child 's defects ’ , this is hardly an example of the most tactful use of language ! |
| 18 | A dichotomy between organic and non-organic failure to thrive has developed , but this is often an oversimplification of the clinical picture . |
| 19 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 20 | This is really an alternative to the aïoli , in case you have anti-garlic guests . |
| 21 | This is quite an achievement in view of the size and the regional diversity of a country such as the United States . |
| 22 | This is quite an advance on his initial assumption that poor Julian Darcy , the Rasputin of Bridport , economic theorist and prisoner of his nation 's conscience , victim of its guilt , indolence and fear , is the motivating force behind Darcy 's Utopia . |
| 23 | This is quite an argument against thinking that you can dispose of Saddam Hussein by bombing his country back into the stone age , is n't it ? |
| 24 | As far as wage levels are concerned , this is self-evidently an area in which corporate discretion is not unbounded , particularly in view of the countervailing power of trade unions . |
| 25 | This is basically an attempt to group or to classify customers according to similar needs or purchasing characteristics . |
| 26 | This is almost an inversion of the procedure examined below in the case of similes which introduce underlexicalised terms used with special meanings in the fiction . |
| 27 | Is it not a fact that this is now an area of very important constitutional dispute , that my right hon. Friend accepted the advice of senior Treasury counsel , that two judges have spoken in his favour and two against , and that the House of Lords may find that he was right and they were wrong ? |
| 28 | This is more an opportunity to be grabbed than a threat to the survival of Japanese factories abroad . |
| 29 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 30 | Although , along the lines suggested by Lyons or Ochs , we may be able to reduce the vagueness by providing lists of relevant contextual features , we do not seem to have available any theory that will predict the relevance of all such features , and this is perhaps an embarrassment to a definition that seems to rely on the notion of context . |