Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [adv] this " in BNC.

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1 … the increasingly articulate demand of society , voiced by parents , employers , politicians and the students themselves is for just this wider service — wider in aims , wider in curriculum and wider in access .
2 Given our account of causal circumstances , that is fundamentally to say , in line with the independent conditional ( 5 ) set out in Section I .3 and mentioned at the beginning of this section , that for a to have the power to produce b is for roughly this to be true : if A & C , even if X , still B — where C asserts the existence of other conditions or events .
3 My girlfriend 's cousin 's in there this week Mark .
4 My girlfriend 's cousin 's in there this week .
5 Yet it is in precisely this sort of situation that a woman who has hitherto chosen to stay at home with her children may need to seek work .
6 Classic Pop if such an oxymoronic designation is possible is on again this month at Gagosian ( uptown ) where ‘ James Rosenquist The Early Paintings ’ continues that gallery 's succession of early 1960's shows .
7 Indeed , it is at exactly this stage of Picasso 's evolution that one senses behind his art the presence of this great ‘ primitive ’ who in his naiveté had unconsciously succeeded in ignoring the forces which had influenced French painting for the past fifty years , the forces against which Picasso and his friends were most immediately reacting .
8 There is at least this restriction on the properties that count here , that they must be properties whose presence or absence can be registered by the person making the judgement .
9 But it is at precisely this time that price advantage comes into its own and companies become more willing to switch from existing suppliers if they can cut costs by using a new source .
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