Example sentences of "this [be] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have watched Eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have watched the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial instruments . |
| 2 | We have watched eastern Europe grapple for freedom and the liberty that we enjoy , yet I have heard the House of Commons talk solemnly as if this were merely a question of a pile of money at one end of a table or the issuing of financial intruments . |
| 3 | Growth follows the direction of the arrow — perhaps to meet the other half-span if this were truly a bridge . |
| 4 | This being merely a matter of report , there is no motion . |
| 5 | This is self-consciously an escapist activity , its main value being that it avoids the careful budgeting and penny-counting which shopping itself entails . |
| 6 | This is rarely a problem for dating an archaeological site where fragments of broken pottery tend to abound , and it is usual to date several sherds from the same context to provide an average age and better precision . |
| 7 | This is either a trap , Ace thought , or else the Doctor 's found a way to let us in . |
| 8 | In practice this is either a letter or a statement of value on HM Land Registry Form A4. ( e ) Insurance Insurance of the property should be placed in the name of the wife alone , the husband 's name being deleted from the policy . |
| 9 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |
| 10 | This is particularly a problem in chronic disease . |
| 11 | This is particularly a problem in the rural areas , and it 's particularly in the rural areas where this happens . |
| 12 | One difficulty is the amount of imputation as described above ; this is particularly a problem for the study of inner city areas and such topics as social deprivation , where the information is likely to be more conjectural . |
| 13 | This is particularly an issue with emerging technologies which are not yet able to provide seamless integration into the corporation 's wider electronic world . |
| 14 | This is thus a subject for students with wide interests ; courses are taken in Chemistry , Mathematics , Economics , Computing and Management in addition to Engineering subjects . |
| 15 | Implicit in this is both a fear of female competition for scarce jobs and a sense of the need of a woman 's domestic labour at home . |
| 16 | This is both a luxury and a necessity . |
| 17 | This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of committee decisions ; |
| 18 | This is both an opportunity and a challenge for management . |
| 19 | This is even a problem in better documented periods , and will only be resolved , if at all , by extensive research at the sites . |
| 20 | This is presumably a result of the flexibility of the chain which allows extensive convolution thereby impeding stabilization of the required long range alignment . |
| 21 | This is partly a question of social mobility but it may also be a response to the sort of repetitive jobs many of these people are performing . |
| 22 | This is partly a question of the so-called ‘ burden of dependency ’ . |
| 23 | This is partly a question of attitude , partly a matter of training . |
| 24 | This is partly a reflection of the growing responsibility which the Welsh Office has assumed for education at all levels in the Principality . |
| 25 | ‘ I think this is partly a reaction against the artificial nature of our media system , ’ says Sut Jhally , a communications professor at Amherst University . |
| 26 | This is partly a consequence of simple arithmetic . |
| 27 | This is partly a consequence of the fact that the great majority of single parents are women and partly because such families are disproportionately working class . |
| 28 | This is partly a consequence of the non-finite or ‘ leaky ’ nature of syntactic systems , which in turn is associated with the relationship between syntax and speaker meaning ( or intention ) . |
| 29 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 30 | Although this is partly a result of lower market share during the last days of The Sunday Correspondent , the IoS has made ground while its rival The Observer has not . |