Example sentences of "[adj] is [adv] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is rarely a problem for dating an archaeological site where fragments of broken pottery tend to abound , and it is usual to date several sherds from the same context to provide an average age and better precision . |
| 2 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |
| 3 | One difficulty is the amount of imputation as described above ; this is particularly a problem for the study of inner city areas and such topics as social deprivation , where the information is likely to be more conjectural . |
| 4 | This is particularly a problem in chronic disease . |
| 5 | This is particularly a problem in the rural areas , and it 's particularly in the rural areas where this happens . |
| 6 | This is thus a subject for students with wide interests ; courses are taken in Chemistry , Mathematics , Economics , Computing and Management in addition to Engineering subjects . |
| 7 | Implicit in this is both a fear of female competition for scarce jobs and a sense of the need of a woman 's domestic labour at home . |
| 8 | This is even a problem in better documented periods , and will only be resolved , if at all , by extensive research at the sites . |
| 9 | This is presumably a result of the flexibility of the chain which allows extensive convolution thereby impeding stabilization of the required long range alignment . |
| 10 | This is partly a question of social mobility but it may also be a response to the sort of repetitive jobs many of these people are performing . |
| 11 | This is partly a question of the so-called ‘ burden of dependency ’ . |
| 12 | This is partly a question of attitude , partly a matter of training . |
| 13 | This is partly a reflection of the growing responsibility which the Welsh Office has assumed for education at all levels in the Principality . |
| 14 | ‘ I think this is partly a reaction against the artificial nature of our media system , ’ says Sut Jhally , a communications professor at Amherst University . |
| 15 | This is partly a consequence of simple arithmetic . |
| 16 | This is partly a consequence of the fact that the great majority of single parents are women and partly because such families are disproportionately working class . |
| 17 | This is partly a consequence of the non-finite or ‘ leaky ’ nature of syntactic systems , which in turn is associated with the relationship between syntax and speaker meaning ( or intention ) . |
| 18 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 19 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |
| 20 | This is partly a result of the success of the Registration and Inspection Service 's efforts to encourage a move to more single room provision . |
| 21 | This is partly a result of the small sizes of international bond issues , but also a consequence of the long holding periods typical of such bonds . |
| 22 | This is partly a matter of winning and keeping customers . |
| 23 | This is partly a matter of technology — more paper mills need to be built with the capacity to take old paper instead of new pulp . |
| 24 | This is partly a matter of religious faith concerning the world to come . |
| 25 | This is partly a matter of the distinction between ways of understanding the abstract character of a system and actual history already identified in a quotation from Gramsci . |
| 26 | This is partly a matter of writing appropriate sentences , for example , so that you can distinguish your point of view in debate from someone else 's . |
| 27 | The position we have reached is that when it is said that the sea appears to a viewer to be uniformly blue this is neither a statement about what Reid calls the ‘ visible appearance ’ of the sea , nor straightforwardly a statement about the viewer 's opinion . |
| 28 | This is surely a slice of history shown as it really was , and all who served with Bomber Command will be delighted that John Searby recorded their courageous efforts so well . |
| 29 | If such reviews succeed on their merits , this is surely a demonstration of the extent of past missed entitlement . |
| 30 | Er Madam Deputy Speaker , one of the difficulties addressed during the consultation exercise was that neither the term auditor , nor the phrase in his capacity as auditor , were defined in the banking statutory instrument or in the banking act itself and the government 's mindful of the need to clarify who it is who will be placed under a duty by the statutory instruments and in which circumstances the duty will apply and while this is ultimately a question for the courts , we take the view that the duty clearly covers any auditor of a bank appointed under U K company law . |