Example sentences of "this [is] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is self-consciously an escapist activity , its main value being that it avoids the careful budgeting and penny-counting which shopping itself entails . |
| 2 | In untreated calves , this is normally the recovery phase after the adult lungworms have been expelled . |
| 3 | This is generally the food preparation area of the house , this is a bit further on , this is the buttery . |
| 4 | Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) . |
| 5 | This is surely a babyhood memory , slightly corrupted , of seeing the word ‘ toilets ’ reflected fleetingly in my nurse 's spectacles when we travelled from London to Dover to sail for the continent . |
| 6 | The answer to this is surely a date stamp which will force the disorganised or unscrupulous outlet to sell off old stock cheaply or discard it . |
| 7 | This is when the hair loss results . |
| 8 | This is when the p t observation takes the value 1 or 0 . |
| 9 | But I ca n't help feeling that this is strictly a US product and that no attempt has been made to localize it for UK or European markets . |
| 10 | The infant retrieves , or witnesses the retrieval of an object from behind A ( say ) three times , after which he watches as the experimenter moves it to place B. On seeing it vanish at B he will go straight back to A. Although the back-to-A error is more likely to be made the longer the delay between hiding at B and allowing search , this is not a memory problem in any simple sense because the infant will return to A even if the object remains visible at B. We find a particularly clear demonstration of this kind of ‘ perseveration ’ in an experiment by Paul Harris in which there were two transparent , lockable boxes as the A and the B location . |
| 11 | ‘ This is not a panic process , it is a systematically controlled , pro-active programme , which is a continuation of the company 's evolution . ’ |
| 12 | A McDonald 's official said : ‘ This is not a publicity stunt . |
| 13 | Remind yourself that this is not a dress rehearsal for life . |
| 14 | This is not a raree show . |
| 15 | Alfred Evans had claimed that " this is not a sex question , but a wages question , wholly and solely " . |
| 16 | The quadripartite vault is higher than usual ( this is not a hall church ) and both nave and aisle vaults are painted . |
| 17 | ‘ This is not a sweat shop , ’ Ian said . |
| 18 | This is not a Somalia situation , but it is very alarming . ’ |
| 19 | While this is not a reference book , it complements well those that Roger Freeman has written — and should interest an even wider audience . |
| 20 | This is not a performance diagram but a potential performance diagram ( Fig. 1.25 ) . |
| 21 | This is not a taxi service , but a group of volunteers who are carefully chosen by the Ambulance Service for their caring attitude to patients . |
| 22 | This is not a swapping agency , but Jo Rodwell , the owner , will sell your unwanted curtains on a commission basis . |
| 23 | Yet Yentob insists that : ‘ This is not a propaganda exercise . ’ |
| 24 | This is not a Second Reading debate . |
| 25 | But this is not a fight Mason imagines he can lose and much of the interest tonight will focus on his ability to handle a taller opponent who has been in with better men . |
| 26 | In the case of the Fiesta used by the spouse this is not a business asset . |
| 27 | There may be a handful of key employees brought in by that company to the location to establish the plant erm and to erm recruit and run the work force but my experience of these inquiries and prospective inquiries is that generally speaking they are looking to recruit labour locally and so this is not a housing generator type of development . |
| 28 | But this is not a d-i-y operation . |
| 29 | This is not a desperation move , he insists , but is a pre-emptive strike against Microsoft : ‘ We are taking the bull by the horns ’ . |
| 30 | This is not a desperation move , he says , but is a pre-emptive strike : ‘ We are taking the bull by the horns ’ . |