Example sentences of "[is] [adv] this [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 2 | An MoD spokesman commented ‘ It is exactly this sort of thing which experts must sit down and work out . ’ |
| 3 | Yet it is just this kind of assumption , unsupported by any fieldwork , that is responsible for the proposal for the further Directive . |
| 4 | Any who dare to question this are quickly dealt with by being accused of faithlessness , invoking that frighteningly powerful guilt feeling instilled into the human mind whilst the individual is still very young , and it is just this abuse of childhood which is so surely the primary cause of failure to reduce the constant renewal of the horrors of war . |
| 5 | But it is just this sort of research which is hardly being practised at all ( with a few exceptions : Conyers 1971 ; Okigbo 1981 ; , and a bibliography on farm systems by Gilbert , Norman & Winch 1980 ) . |
| 6 | But it is just this sort of judgment which those who argue for a unfudgeable standard do not wish to see exercised . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just this time of year . |
| 8 | ‘ But all around there is still this lack of organisation in the football business generally . |
| 9 | It is possibly this kind of teaching which is most likely to lead to situations such as those found in the Nottingham reading study ( Lunzer and Gardner , 1979 ) , where secondary-school children could explain how to use a contents page or an index perfectly well , but when observed in their work , did not actually use these things much at all . |
| 10 | What 's the , what 's , w why is n't this kind of process easy ? |
| 11 | It is particularly this aspect of BSL structure which not only creates the concentration of meaning in a few glosses but is frequently brought into use by deaf people . |
| 12 | As shown in Chapter 1 , it is indeed this type of psychology which Harré et al. |
| 13 | It is precisely this sense of legitimacy which is lacking in capitalist societies today . |
| 14 | But , more fundamentally , the unique quality of housework as a job is precisely this dimension of self-definition . |
| 15 | It is precisely this sort of arrangement — ‘ rooms had been taken there because they were to start by an early train on that line in the morning ’ — that leads to a fraught dinner party for Clara Amedroz and the two rivals for her hand at the Great Northern Hotel , King 's Cross , in Anthony Trollope 's The Belton Estate ( 1865 ) . |
| 16 | It is primarily this area of work which has prompted many supporting agencies to identify with WACC and give it financial resources . |
| 17 | That 's why this sort of treatment is usually reserved for our upmarket style developments , ’ he says . |