Example sentences of "this [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure that Joyce thinks this altogether a good thing . |
| 2 | My disability makes this rather a slow process , so I had plenty of time . |
| 3 | But Middlesbrough showed that they have the skill and fighting spirit to fulfil their Premier League dream and make this only a temporary set-back . |
| 4 | This only a short account of the main points of the Convention to alert exporters to what has been , up to now , an important aspect of International Trade which tended to be overlooked . |
| 5 | Now this may be because we 're on the way from one position to another , or it may be a traditional British approach , but I find this personally a great source of pressure because on the one hand I recognise as a parent myself one 's going to have a crucial interest in the education of one 's child , on the other hand how one reconciles those hundreds of different philosophies and then superimposes upon it a professional approach is , I suppose , the greatest single source of strain I find running a large secondary school , particularly , as I said before , in the end the responsibility in law is mine . |
| 6 | Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ? |
| 7 | It will be demonstrated later that the correlation between the true area and the projected area visible to the camera is good enough to make this not a prime consideration . |
| 8 | Is this not a quick election fix rather than a programme of long-term investment to improve our competitiveness ? |
| 9 | Is this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent . |
| 10 | This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists . |
| 11 | Or was all this just a wild stab into nothing ? |
| 12 | Is this just a malign coincidence ? |
| 13 | While I 'm having a look at this just a quick glance through erm there 's the er range of products that we print design publish , we do n't sell them , for our clients . |
| 14 | Is this just an ordinary camera you 've used ? |
| 15 | Or is this just an elaborate distraction created by her mind to avoid facing her infertility ? |
| 16 | If we were to deliberately over-provide , then I think it would be difficult to put a brake on this once a certain level of jobs had been reached , once the land is committed , there is a certain certainty attached to that commitment and I wonder how that would sit with the er guidance on development plans . |
| 17 | Lead this up a stout stake at one end of the row , tying in position , and put a funnel in the open end . |
| 18 | Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it . |
| 19 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 20 | So is this really a new panacea or a just a passing craze for crazies . |
| 21 | But is this really a fair comparison ? |
| 22 | But is this really an unlikely choice ? |
| 23 | Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ? |
| 24 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 25 | Now I give this quite a strong point to bring up . . |
| 26 | Oh was this quite a usual thing for |
| 27 | Now this is this quite a common thing after the flu to get a problem . |
| 28 | Was this quite a common thing for the lads in the to do things like this ? |
| 29 | Right before I fill in some of the details on this again an important point to grasp coming up . |