Example sentences of "this be [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | Briefly , she wondered if this were n't the sort of thing the Doctor was after , but decided to continue searching . |
2 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
3 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
4 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
5 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
6 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |
7 | Implicit in this is both a fear of female competition for scarce jobs and a sense of the need of a woman 's domestic labour at home . |
8 | This is generally the version of the module which the module manager recommends for use . |
9 | This is presumably a result of the flexibility of the chain which allows extensive convolution thereby impeding stabilization of the required long range alignment . |
10 | This is partly a question of social mobility but it may also be a response to the sort of repetitive jobs many of these people are performing . |
11 | This is partly a question of the so-called ‘ burden of dependency ’ . |
12 | This is partly a question of attitude , partly a matter of training . |
13 | This is partly a reflection of the growing responsibility which the Welsh Office has assumed for education at all levels in the Principality . |
14 | This is partly a consequence of simple arithmetic . |
15 | This is partly a consequence of the fact that the great majority of single parents are women and partly because such families are disproportionately working class . |
16 | This is partly a consequence of the non-finite or ‘ leaky ’ nature of syntactic systems , which in turn is associated with the relationship between syntax and speaker meaning ( or intention ) . |
17 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
18 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |
19 | This is partly a result of the success of the Registration and Inspection Service 's efforts to encourage a move to more single room provision . |
20 | This is partly a result of the small sizes of international bond issues , but also a consequence of the long holding periods typical of such bonds . |
21 | This is partly a matter of winning and keeping customers . |
22 | This is partly a matter of technology — more paper mills need to be built with the capacity to take old paper instead of new pulp . |
23 | This is partly a matter of religious faith concerning the world to come . |
24 | This is partly a matter of the distinction between ways of understanding the abstract character of a system and actual history already identified in a quotation from Gramsci . |
25 | This is partly a matter of writing appropriate sentences , for example , so that you can distinguish your point of view in debate from someone else 's . |
26 | This is partly the fault of the translation which is infuriatingly unclear in places . |
27 | As Macdonald points out , some subjects change from being viewed as ‘ masculine ’ to being viewed as ‘ feminine ’ , and vice versa ; she argues that this is partly the result of ‘ pressures exerted on the school and universities by the changing pattern of employment of men and women in the labour force ’ . |
28 | This is partly the result of inadequate control over facades and signing , reinforced by the trend toward corporate design by major retail chains . |
29 | This is partly the result of scale effects , which we ow need to define more exactly . |
30 | This is partly the result of government cutbacks but it also reflects the closure of business activities which were judged not to be viable plus the contracting out of many non-technical services and a continuing quest to achieve greater efficiency in all aspects of the business . |