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

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1 ( In Leonard 's case this is well marked , sign no doubt of superior knowledge ! )
2 In Champagne this is normally countered by the selection of highly resident rootstock varieties and through the choice of sites where the chalk is thinly covered by drift or where man has added rich sandy or clayey lignite soils to the surface .
3 Russian similarly uses a form of the pronominal adjectives svoj ( masculine ) , svoja ( feminine ) , svojo ( neuter ) , and svoi ( plural ) to refer to a participant already referred to in the same clause , but in Russian this is not restricted to third-person forms ; the participant referred to by the pronominal adjective may be first , second , or third person .
4 I do not wish to nail my colours to this mast , but one of the characteristics of the last decade has been the shift of interest of innovative aspects of capital as displayed in my locales , from a concern with the restructuring of production ( although of course this is still going on ) to a concern with land and its potential .
5 Well , what we 've decided to do is er know what to do and er this , this is the gang this is maybe exaggerated if you do n't have three people on the bottom if you get Any thing else ?
6 In effect this is already starting to happen through television concentration on a few top clubs with only a brief nod in the direction of the rest .
7 During these video workshops for community groups , the technical training is kept to a minimum ; in effect this is how to start the camera , this is how to focus , and this is how to stop .
8 In some cases , then can continue with visits for up to 28 days , though in practice this is rarely done .
9 In practice this is rarely achieved by health services and local authorities and almost never includes private and voluntary sectors .
10 In practice this is now dealt with by an Election Court .
11 Where kids become worldly-wise with such rapidity , it is easy for a certain laissez-faire to creep in ; they expect to have unbridled access to everything , and in the long run this is not doing any favours to either party concerned .
12 Like practically everything in business this is easier said than done , as the plethora of books , theories , advice and consultants testify .
13 In the interview room this is sometimes forgotten ; global NACAB policy is not often on the day-to-day agenda of advice workers .
14 Program style is obviously related to how the teacher and program operate together to create the total learning environment this is also discussed in the next section on classroom activities .
15 My Lord this is course made I apologise for the of authority to support it .
16 Art dealers are looking for quality work and if the dispirited pastiches I came across in the East End are representative of the best on offer this is clearly going to be an increasingly difficult task .
17 We 'll hand out some paper this is not to make one of these long lists or anything , it 's basically to help you to make some notes if you wi , require to do so .
18 In one sense this is simply to point out that we can always demand to have an explanation explained .
19 Words which do not receive primary stress normally have secondary stress , though for the sake of simplicity this is not marked here .
20 Music This is often used to create a particular ‘ mood ’ .
21 I list them without bibliographical details , since these are largely irrelevant for our particular purpose ; but I add what is more significant , the price paid for each , in or out of the saleroom , unless for some reason this is not known .
22 When numerical data is used for making generalizations about the world this is usually based on limited information or samples .
23 ‘ In reality this is not happening , ’ said Brecon and Radnor FUW executive officer John Roberts .
24 National librarian , Brynley Roberts , says in his annual report this is already causing storage problems .
25 Hence although the language is related to purpose this is not realized in the process of learning ( for further discussion see Widdowson 1983 : Chapter 3 ) .
26 At the same time this is not to deny there are administrators and administrations which claim to act , even want to act , in a disinterested way .
27 From a wave point of view this is easily understood .
28 From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years .
29 In fact this is already happening , quite fast , in a number of companies throughout the world .
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