Example sentences of "[adv] [be] this [noun] " 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 | Not only was this St Vitus ' Day , but the ascent of Leo was in the appropriate conjunction with the sun and Saturn , and the date and time of 1357.9.7.5.31 was deemed numerically prophetic . |