Example sentences of "this [is] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some libraries have no selection policy statement and this is surely half the cause of library censorship and the trouble it causes . |
| 2 | In my judgment this is clearly such a case . |
| 3 | I mean this is always dreadful the worry at the end . |
| 4 | This is quite unlike the situation when you shoot still photographs because these can be viewed in any order . |
| 5 | In many cases this is quite unlike the vernacular of the parents ' country or countries . |
| 6 | It is at the analysis stage that the logic of the experiment is deployed : in an important sense , this is too late a stage . |
| 7 | ‘ This is too good an event for Scotland to lose , ’ Mr Wilson said . |
| 8 | However , Table 25 shows that this is too general an assumption to make , particularly in areas where family and part-time farmers predominate . |
| 9 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 10 | It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) . |
| 11 | This is too small a number to make any claims to statistical representativeness . |
| 12 | In the past it has been thought that the fault was greed , but this is too simple a view . |
| 13 | Obviously , this is too valuable a tradition to be allowed to die out in the century that has seen more restriction of public access to land than any previous period of history , including the Enclosures . |
| 14 | This is too short a time frame to be meaningful . |
| 15 | The principle of whether features should or should not be binary ( i.e. ‘ + ’ or ‘ — ’ , ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ ) has been much argued about , but this is too big a question to go into here ( Hyman ( 1975 ) , pp. 32–3 , 55–8 ) . |
| 16 | This is too big a responsibility for us to take on our own . |
| 17 | This is too big a knife . |
| 18 | This is too big a knife . |
| 19 | So this is almost certain a virulence factor but is also very useful in differentiating pathogenic species of staphylococci from non-pathogenic species . |
| 20 | This is very nice the way you 've written it out . |
| 21 | Well , this is very much a sandwich three days , because we 've got today and Sunday looking quite good , but a rather difficult and tense Saturday sort of tucked in between . |
| 22 | so this is very much a refresher course |
| 23 | We feel that this is very much a matter for the district councils in the preparation of their local plans , with their local knowledge which is something we do not have at the county level to be able to make comment on . |
| 24 | The words are there in in the bi in the relevant P P G but I 'm sure you 're you 're familiar with them , er this is very much an issue which falls to be decided at the strategic level . |
| 25 | This is very much an overview document and describes the way in which the group conducts its business . |
| 26 | I think what were dealing within a programme like this is very much the tip of the iceberg |
| 27 | , and this is very true The justice of Eddie 's society was the ‘ eye for an eye ’ concept — you give as good as you get . |
| 28 | I draw attention to their provenance because commentators have focused on the family-magazine question , on the attempt , that is , to get the chapter past Katkov in some shape or form , and I think this is only half the story . |
| 29 | Moreover , this is only half the story . |
| 30 | These days many people know that they should bend their knees when they bend down to pick up an object , but this is only half the story . |