Example sentences of "this [be] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 2 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 3 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 4 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 5 | Variable ET-1-IR was seen in the vascular endothelium , this being particularly the case for Fig 2 — ET-1-IR in diseased human lungs . |
| 6 | Opponents of the resort to force , and others who regarded it as premature , maintained that the effectiveness of sanctions required their application over a longer period ( this being broadly the position adopted in early January , i.e. before the military conflict began , by the opposition Labour Party in the UK ) . |
| 7 | It gave individuals whose petitions were upheld by the European Commission on Human Rights the automatic right to have their cases reviewed by the Court ( this being hitherto the prerogative of either the commission or the state concerned ) ; it would enter into force once ratified by 10 states . |
| 8 | But this is rarely the case . |
| 9 | It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case . |
| 10 | This is rarely the case with the reviews published in Early music or Gramophone , some of whose reviewers have served as musicological advisers for prominent recording projects both in Europe and in England . |
| 11 | And that 's why this is traditionally the area where British bikers have broken into the world of continental racing . |
| 12 | This is particularly the case with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | This is particularly the case in less developed countries and in the rural or other underserved areas of more developed countries . |
| 14 | This is particularly the case in relation to social and familial factors considered , and the members of the individual 's social network interviewed , as part of the assessment process . |
| 15 | This is particularly the case when as here , they are preserved in dark shales , the white calcite of the animal 's skeleton standing out against the background . |
| 16 | This is particularly the case in applying discipline to adolescents . |
| 17 | This is particularly the case with general principles such as making desirable behaviour worthwhile , setting limits and having clearly defined but fair rules of conduct . |
| 18 | This is particularly the case with victims of sexual offences . |
| 19 | This is particularly the case where freedom to protest in public places is concerned . |
| 20 | This is particularly the case for reasoning , where the group of deaf people performs much less well than hearing groups . |
| 21 | This is particularly the case against tough opponents such as Orcs . |
| 22 | This is particularly the case in relation to juveniles , since there is a heavy reliance on family background characteristics as indicators of treatment need , which themselves are likely to be class-related ( see Roshier and Teff , 1980 , pp. 140–1 ) . |
| 23 | For an international business like ICI this is particularly the case . |
| 24 | This is particularly the case in the worlds of politics , sport and entertainment . |
| 25 | This is particularly the case when a child has already developed guilt feelings around its own sexuality or sexual matters in general , or where the sexual atmosphere in family or community is repressive or easily shocked . |
| 26 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
| 27 | In this connection , Gunn ( 1982 ) reports that for ( a ) also the range in Andersonstown is reduced to variation between [ ae ] and [ a ] ( the latter sometimes slightly retracted ) , but he adds that this is particularly the case for young speakers ; older people frequently retain the vernacular rules of the inner city . |
| 28 | You 're waiting and you 're thinking Er and this is particularly the case with a large goods vehicle , you 'll be sitting waiting to go and there 's a lovely gap and you think Can I ? |
| 29 | This is particularly the case in developing countries and Malenbaum 's comment on this is a correct , if rather harsh , appraisal of the situation . |
| 30 | This is particularly the case for Labour governments , for , if for no other reason , depressed areas contain more Labour than Conservative voters . |