Example sentences of "this [is] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly thanks to the free insurance provided by one of the World Cup sponsors and partly historical perspective . |
| 2 | If , as Hugh Kenner believes , Pound never ceased to love Dorothy even while he loved Olga , this is surely part of what he loved in her , an aspect of what she meant to him ; and so Pound 's feelings for and about England were , right to the end , not much less tormented than any English reader 's can be . |
| 3 | This is surely arrogance on a pretty preposterous scale . |
| 4 | But this is not evidence for an additional hereditary mechanism . |
| 5 | But equally obviously this is not evidence for conscious design . |
| 6 | Maybe the reader 's first thought an experiment of my own showed that this is not misinterpretation in any simple sense . |
| 7 | This is not proof in itself that our ancestors were more intelligent than we are : it seems that the ability of a brain depends less on its size than on the extent of its complexity , as epitomized by the degree of crenulation ( folding ) on its exterior . |
| 8 | Even this is not proof against all errors . |
| 9 | Artistic director Michael Dray said : ‘ This is not theatre for the deaf but theatre of the deaf . |
| 10 | There is a persistent rumour that Mr Soros 's real interest in all this is not gold at all , but the bond markets . |
| 11 | The other types of symbols are equally internalized by society 's members , and as this is not part of Freud 's theory , Parsons suggests modifications to it to incorporate these types of symbols also . |
| 12 | This is not part of the project plan but an aid to the project leader in creating one with an adequate safety margin . |
| 13 | ‘ This is not part of an anti-Labour campaign in any way , ’ she stressed . |
| 14 | Unfortunately this is not part of the National Health Service , and the parents will have to pay a fee . |
| 15 | This is not value for money , we 're working with very , very needy people in our community . |
| 16 | Thus , while the risks of ERCP are relatively fewer , this is not grounds for complacency . |
| 17 | Inn many cases this is what they get , However this is not consolation to the user who , having been misinformed by an out of date roadside timetable , spends , say , fifteen minutes at a windswept bus stop , in pouring rain , awaiting a bus that is less than clean , being driven so badly that the ride is uncomfortable by a brusque and unhelpful driver . ’ |
| 18 | This is not snow of the fluffy , snowballing variety . |
| 19 | This is where reports of local horticultural societies , women 's institutes , school governors , and local elections are news . |
| 20 | So this is where experience of run-ins can be vitally important . |
| 21 | He says this is where newcomers to the business can have difficulties , and that one needs to be fairly robust to cope with the pressure . |
| 22 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 23 | And all this is just part of a programme that seeks to help women help themselves . |
| 24 | This is n't evidence of decadence or decline , it 's evidence of the spreading of wealth and the sharing of privilege . |
| 25 | This is n't news to me , pal . |
| 26 | They did n't say that an and but they in this particular area , remember this is n't fly by wire , this is fly by light . |
| 27 | Perhaps this is n't heaven after all . |
| 28 | This is n't sculpture from the gimmicky , pile-of-bricks school as anyone who has taken the trouble to observe how a flock behaves will instantly recognise . |
| 29 | This is why groups of ten words are listed on page 114 . |
| 30 | This is why success in surmounting this stage in a satisfactory manner is so important both for the happiness and future sexual fulfilment of the individual and for the security and success of this civilization . |