Example sentences of "[is] this [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ How falsifiable is it ? ’ and ‘ Has it been falsified ? ’ , it becomes more appropriate to ask , ‘ Is this newly proposed theory a viable replacement for the one it challenges ? ’ |
2 | It is this increasingly autonomous nature of population change that prompts us to tackle this subject first in our review of the broad geographical patterns underlying the changes affecting individual places . |
3 | Just accept that there is this mathematically natural way of meeting this physical need . |
4 | Set in the outskirts of Zell am See in Schüttdorf , is this well furnished hotel with a local reputation for good food . |
5 | It seems that Carnedd Uchaf has crept into the list , but is this not subsidiary summit of Foel Gras rather than a 3000'er in its own right ? |
6 | ‘ It is this exclusively objective approach of classical science that fails to do justice to ‘ persons ’ as ‘ subjects of experience ’ . |
7 | Is this yet another case of ’ Excuse the mess , we have got the Conservatives in ’ ? |
8 | Is this yet another instance of the anti-choice nature of the Labour party which , in the guise of new-found moderation , seeks to deny that which is currently available ? |
9 | Or is this yet another example of the Government and their supporters talking up human rights in theory and knocking them down in practice ? |
10 | Winner of a prize at Cannes , and the most unexpectedly entertaining movie of the year is this very dynamic story set in London during the Silver Jubilee year of 1977 . |
11 | people going to football matches and there is this very macho attitude that |
12 | It is this suddenly increased level of necessary mental capacity , experience , knowledge and mental stamina that allows managers to add value to the work of their subordinates . |
13 | We all it is ba , well I say all it is this bloody great strip right be between the ceiling and the walls , the right length of corridor and the manager see it and he said look that should be shiny sort of like and it 's all pitted so he said you 'll have to go up here he said and do it all with steel abrasive said fair enough . |
14 | In his 1979 budget Sir Geoffrey Howe claimed that in the past public spending had been based on falsely optimistic expectations about economic resources : ‘ It is this falsely reassuring belief that somehow the resources will be found to permit an uninterrupted expansion of public expenditure that this government challenges . |
15 | It is this essentially dynamic experience — energy releasing energy , which gives medieval Christian mysticism its special characteristics , many of which were directly derived from the teaching of St Augustine ( fifth century ) , the most seminal figure in the West for orthodox mystical theology . |
16 | So there 's this enormously long testing period now takes place and that cuts down the risk of their being disasters or catastrophes . |
17 | There 's this blummin huge bridge so I stop a bit and look over the edge . |
18 | and there 's this just this row of like rasta men |
19 | It 's this really creepy area , a dead-end road in a red-light district , and when I got there I discovered I did n't have my key and he was n't in , so I was locked out . |
20 | " Oh , be reasonable , Tossie , there 's this really interesting filly coming up … " |
21 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |