Example sentences of "this [adv] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This not being a sufficient degree of regularity , the company had not bought the car ‘ in the course of a business . ’
2 All right do n't do n't criticize me for this not being an accurate map .
3 It seems that it is of continuing importance for women to be able to call upon relatives to assist them with child care , and that this still is a key element in women 's organization of their daily lives , as it has been in the past ( see for example Roberts , 1984 ) .
4 This always was a good fire .
5 This also is a square matrix of unit rank , and z12 evidently has the properties unc In fact , the above equations , and the properties of the matrices unc discussed in 1.18 , are all contained in the general result unc on evaluation of the inner products .
6 The swimming pool and sunbathing area are a focal point of the hotel — so pack plenty of sun lotion , as this really is a great suntrap !
7 This really is a bad side to your character !
8 ( Aug 24-Sep 23 ) This really is a peculiar time for finances .
9 This really is an important day .
10 William Kirby , of the Royal National Institute for the Blind , which is supporting the video , said : ‘ This really is an exciting development .
11 By the time she decided that this really was a stupid idea the taxi driver had disappeared into the network of streets , and she had no choice but to gloomily knock on the front door and pray that it did n't mysteriously open of its own accord .
12 After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself .
13 On the other hand , disappointment did not drive Nithard to defection : Charles had nicely calculated , just as Lothar had done — and this surely was a prime requirement of successful kingship — whom he could , and could not , afford to disappoint .
14 This then is a convenient place to turn to consider the wider role of the police in relation to protest .
15 This then is a brief résuméof the problems which must be recognized by any indexer and for which the index must allow .
16 In the fifteenth century it had been a practical way of making agriculture more profitable , in the sixteenth it was more likely to create a vagrancy problem as men were dispossessed from the land , and this indeed was a social issue which came to the forefront of public attention in the Tudor period .
17 This however is a serious misuse of the principle of military effectiveness , which is especially horrifying in the context of discussion of the use of nuclear weapons .
18 Under certain circumstances indeed water would be taken upwards by the lift-for instance , if the bulk of the traffic was downwards and barges loaded to 65 tons , then each barge passing down would squeeze out into the top pond 3.150 cu. ft. ( or about ⅓ of a lock ) of water This however is an ideal case and the following statement shews the theoretical gain or loss of water which would occur in working out of these lifts .
19 This again is a symptomatic consequence of suffering from anorexia nervosa .
20 In front of this again is an octagonal baptistery and further west still a later campanile .
21 This certainly is a beautiful place .
22 This certainly was an Arab village , ’ the Israeli woman said .
23 This too is a strange idea .
24 This too is a long sequence of fences at each of which interested but busy teachers will be ‘ lost ’ .
25 This too is a useful design tool : a dazzling , disquieting pair , or duality , can be resolved by discharging them into a line .
26 This too is a serious error , because dh is not a letter sequence in English .
27 Now that Philip van Wilder 's collected works have at last appeared in print , it is clear that this too is a distinctive body of music that Byrd absorbed without actually committing plagiarism ; only play van Wilder 's ‘ O dulks regard ’ beside Byrd 's ‘ Ne irascaris ’ and you will hear what I mean .
28 The role of music , song , and poetry have been important to the YCCC as well , and this too is a central theme of Highlander .
29 This too is a good way of providing learners with extended exposure to the target language with the support of the subtitles to help them keep pace with the plot .
30 I 've talked about miocenia gravis ; there is it 's rarer cousin , the syndrome , which sometimes associates with carcinoma of the lung , and we have shown that this too is an auto-immune disease in which the lung cancer seems to precipitate the immune system into making an antibody against it , the tumour , and the because the tumour has on its surface the same thing as the nerve terminal , the antibody also binds to the nerve terminal and causes trouble there .
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