Example sentences of "this [be] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
| 2 | The stronger sense of is strike off " , wrench loose " , and this is surely the last in a progression of " violent " verbs , beginning with diffugere and going on through and before coming to ( or rather , ) at the poem 's despairing close . |
| 3 | At the best of times , the industry is very competitive , but this is not the best of times . |
| 4 | Lakefield Canoe Club has always specialised in running wild water rivers and this is not the first of the clubs pioneering ventures into little known canoeing waters . |
| 5 | One of them , this is not the first in the but one of them is that democracy may well throw up unworthy rulers . |
| 6 | " You will understand that this is not the happiest of occasions for me . |
| 7 | Sorry Chair , this is not the easiest of documents |
| 8 | This is probably the largest of all the categories of cheeses and it encompasses many of the traditional British varieties ( see The Great British Eight , p86 ) as well as continental cheeses such as Edam , Chaumes and Pyrenees . |
| 9 | This is probably the best of the range to date and includes Log Cabin and Shopkeeper ( basic maths ) , Library and Basketball ( logic and sorting ) , Opposites and Typing a basic word processor with spelling features and sentence construction . |
| 10 | This is probably the last of what can be described as a traditional Farnborough year , although many of the old faces were disappearing , many new faces were emerging too . |
| 11 | But this is probably the easier of the Tories ' tasks . |
| 12 | One reason is that many suspect this is just the first of several unwelcome shifts in the government 's funding pattern , despite official promises to the contrary . |
| 13 | This is just the latest in long line of such scandals , which besmirch the country 's financial institutions as a whole . |
| 14 | This is just the same for systems like the Polynesian one , discussed by Engels , where large numbers of people can referred to by the same term as one 's father . |
| 15 | And this is n't the easiest of schools to teach in . |
| 16 | But this is n't the worst of Saddam , I mean , this is er , a human tragedy for all the families involved and it concerns individual lives , and for that we 're always very upset . |
| 17 | This is officially the last of the Zodiacal constellations , though since it now contains the Vernal Equinox it really ought to be the first . |
| 18 | This is hardly the best of reasons for planting , and not the right attitude . |
| 19 | That 's right , if you 're organizing something like that and thinking about it from now , this is only the first of September , but |
| 20 | This is only the latest in a series of issues which have emerged as computer technology has developed and linked up with telecommunications , and which appear to bear upon fundamental questions of individual freedom . |
| 21 | And , if the situation with regard to individual psychological development and the evolution of culture is as I have represented it , then this is merely the first of many profound insights into the psychology of the ego — and perhaps most especially the superego — which can be expected but which were totally unobtainable as long as the individualistic fallacy blocked the way . |
| 22 | The conclusion to be drawn from one theory is that attempts to restructure the welfare state helped to generate forms of ‘ territorial ’ resistance ( Rhodes ) , while from the other , this is merely the latest in a continuing series of attempts by UK central governments to overcome and control the differentiated demands of a series of local governments with their own local bases of political support ( Duncan and Goodwin ) . |
| 23 | This was also the first of many operations at Poole in which I was involved on the cutters . |
| 24 | Although the most comprehensive , this was only the latest in a long series of hard-hitting reports on Indian prisons , most of which echoed familiar themes . |
| 25 | Like the other Pyrenean divisions , Béarn is medieval ; this was once the largest of the furiously independent mountain states , a viscounty which came into existence as early as 820 , was at different moments of its history the vassal of Aragon and England , became joined by marriage with the powerful viscounty of Foix and with Basse-Navarre , and finally , when Henri IV , ‘ le grand Béarnais ’ , became king of the whole of France in 1589 , was integrated with the Crown . |