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

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1 If the scope of review becomes too broad this is effectively destroyed .
2 This this is n't calculating it using sine and cos or anything .
3 It tells us this this is n't doing exactly what it said here right .
4 The impact of all this is well summarised in the DES booklet The National Curriculum , from Policy to Practice .
5 ( All this is well illustrated by the chart in Appendix 2 . )
6 All this is well known and understood , but can pose problems for partnerships .
7 All this is not to deny the possible relevance of the results of comparative experience as an aid to practitioners and policy-makers who may hope to utilise ideas , approaches or techniques adopted in other countries .
8 All this is not to deny that perfect contestability provides a benchmark , moreover an extremely important one as we shall see shortly .
9 All this is not to say that The World in Space lacks value .
10 All this is not to say that Gloucester faced no problems , but none of them seems to have threatened his tenure of the protectorship .
11 All this is not to say that Basil was incapable of showing normal human impatience or intolerance .
12 All this is not to say that the clergy lacked grievances generally against the king , but that they were neither of the kind to excite lay sympathy nor even sufficiently widespread or fundamental to unite the clergy themselves .
13 All this is not to say that Gloucester faced no problems , but none of them seems to have threatened his tenure of the protectorship .
14 Clearly all this is not going to be much fun , but my aim is egoism and not hedonism .
15 You may think that all this is not required , but you are wrong : good feedback prevents error .
16 All this is not to suggest that political advantage has not had and does not have any effect on the conduct of macro policy , but rather that the evidence and theory presented is consistent with its having a small rather than dominating impact .
17 All this is not meant as a massive , unqualified slight against the Caribbean family , for there are understandable reasons for its failure , amongst them fractured relationships and the prime necessities of having to feed , clothe and shelter their children .
18 Yet all this is easily understood in comparison to grasping the concepts of recovery .
19 All this is long gone ; long long gone . ’ ’
20 But all this is gradually changing because the civil war is creating new relations between men and women and that implies a transformation in men as well .
21 The economist 's role in all this is essentially to make the policy-maker aware of these trade-offs and to advise him of the suitability of alternative policy tools for the achievement of objectives .
22 All this is commonly done without any demonstration of verbal consciousness or deliberate reflection .
23 All this is then collected from their homes in the normal way and sent to be recycled .
24 The madness of all this is constantly illustrated by a jumbled host of fragmentary images that surround us , of body hair and smells and leakings , of panty liners , bikini lines and cellulite .
25 But when all this is fully recognised yet the law , in some circumstances , reserves a right to say that a contract is in restraint of trade and that to be enforceable it must pass a test of reasonableness .
26 All this is exquisitely landscaped , spotlessly clean and gives the impression of being the work of an inspired , efficient dictator .
27 All this is often put forward to support the extended use of audio-visual and other media in schools and colleges : we are to use them because they are so ubiquitously there .
28 If all this is virtually gon na be it 's virtually gon na be dance floor int it really ?
29 18 This is not to say that he envisioned heaven , like Ethel Walker , as a place of women only .
30 Although there is a marked decrease with age in the percentage rating their health as good this is not matched by an increase in the percentage classed as poor .
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