Example sentences of "[adv] [be] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it only been this morning that she had visited Switham House and received that kind lady 's offer of help ? |
| 2 | Nevertheless , she enquired politely in as loud a voice as she dared , ‘ Just how long is this hounding going to go on ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ How long is this thing going to take , Jenna ? ’ he wanted to know . |
| 4 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 5 | Undoubtedly therefore much of the growth that they 've put in is this year 's budget , will have to result in schools ' budgets being cut in the future . |
| 6 | So is this apathy and lack of interest not the result of a political system which dissuades people from taking an active role . |
| 7 | If both or either is impaired then so is this capacity , and both depend upon the psychological capacities of the agent plus the recognition of other members of the moral and political community . |
| 8 | So is this brochure necessary ; is n't the ceramic market already over-bombarded with technical literature ; why should Matroc add more ? |
| 9 | So is this running to the toilet with my water just |
| 10 | They then realize that not only is this type of undecidability possible in Xorandor 's logic , but that it is also the founding condition of their binary systems . |
| 11 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |
| 12 | Not only is this implication unfair but often the comments on Swiss law are misleading . |
| 13 | Not only is this kind of personality-screening process likely to be chancy and unreliable , but — if change and initiative is the goal — downright counterproductive . |
| 14 | Not only is this position dangerous , but it is also the way numerous masts are broken . |
| 15 | Not only is this common-sense , but a section of THE gas act 1986 actually says we 're obliged to do it ! |
| 16 | Not only is this material soft and elastic but unlike its silicone rubber analogue , it can be impregnated with a hydrophilic antibiotic which is then locally released . |
| 17 | Not only is this figure certain to rise as spending on ‘ Cohesion ’ increases , but there are even calls , led by Germany , for the proportion paid by the United Kingdom to be increased further . |
| 18 | Not only is this information ignored , but some of the new-found local expertise on asbestos and health is apparently greater than that of Professor McDonald , the independent expert who has studied some 12,000 case histories . |
| 19 | Not only is this view totally unacceptable to the deaf community as active members of society and sign language users but there is no evidence in the UK that these ‘ symptoms ’ are in any way ‘ causes ’ . |
| 20 | Not only is this statement admissible in tribunal proceedings , but unreasonable refusal to provide such a statement renders the employer , on the application of the employee to a tribunal , liable to a penalty payable to the employee of a sum equal to two weeks ' gross pay . |
| 21 | Not only is this episode interesting in itself , but it also contains important lessons which can be applied to similar attempts at implementing Marxism within a democratic framework . |
| 22 | Not only is this thinking hierarchical , it is also dualistic . |
| 23 | Not only is this format the simplest and earliest means of storing numeric data in the computer , it is also used for store addresses and forms the basis for encoding the individual subportions of more complicated arithmetic data-types , such as the fraction and exponent of the floating-point format described in 2.2 . |
| 24 | And how long was this measure , designed to embrace the principles of 48 pages of white paper and some 68 pages of analysis in two specially-commissioned Price Waterhouse reports ? |
| 25 | And how long was this measure , designed to embrace the principles of 48 pages of white paper and some 68 pages of analysis in two specially-commissioned Price Waterhouse reports ? |
| 26 | How long was this fencing going to continue . |
| 27 | Not only was this man overbearing ; he was arrogant too . |
| 28 | Not only was this behaviour upsetting for anyone hearing it , but it gave my walking partner and I quite a scare . |
| 29 | Now here 's the frightening part : not only was this maniac young , fairly tall , immensely broad and strong , and unbelievably savage and violent , but he was also able to run with amazing speed . |
| 30 | By the mid 1960s , not only was this area experiencing acidities less than pH 4.0 but the area of acid precipitation with values below pH 4.5 had expanded to include most of East and West Germany , northern France , eastern England and southern Scandinavia . |