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

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1 In ( 1 ) , a combination of directional and components strategies is being used and this is clearly an effective procedure .
2 A more aggressive attitude , of course , might counsel strategic acquisition and this is clearly an approach favoured by such major European publishers as the Maxwell Communications Corporation , Bertlesmann , Hachette and others .
3 Another area addressed by the survey was the additional assessment , which is a feature of all general SVQs at levels II and III , and this is clearly an issue of concern to some centres .
4 The skill can be described as a group of inter-related subskills which do not require moment-by-moment attention , and this is also an appropriate description of skilled reading .
5 The toxin may or may not be present in strains of er C diphtheria and this is just an immunological test so I wo wo n't explain it in detail but what you can see is a a strip of er , filter paper which has been bathed in anti-toxin and growth of various different strains of the organism erm which , some of which do produce the toxin you can see lines of precipitation here and some of which do n't produce the toxin .
6 ‘ Darlington and SouthWest Durham pioneered the concept almost two years ago and this is just an extension of that , ’ said Mr Smith .
7 In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate .
8 Although , along the lines suggested by Lyons or Ochs , we may be able to reduce the vagueness by providing lists of relevant contextual features , we do not seem to have available any theory that will predict the relevance of all such features , and this is perhaps an embarrassment to a definition that seems to rely on the notion of context .
9 It is easy enough to analyse the formal characteristics of African sculpture in terms of vertical , horizontal or diagonal emphases ; of relative naturalism or abstraction ; of rounded , angular or cubic elements ; or in terms of tensions , rhythm and movement , and this is certainly an enjoyable and satisfying experience , since African sculptors have achieved a remarkable level of expression in what has been called ‘ purely sculptural ’ form .
10 These factors determine the orientation of chains relative to each other in the undiluted state , and this is essentially an interplay between the entropy and internal energy of the system which is expressed in the usual thermodynamic form
11 In the past , this derived from the massive government R&D programmes which addressed the demanding requirements of nuclear power , and this is still an important part of AEA 's inheritance .
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