Example sentences of "this [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ?
2 Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear .
3 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
4 Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ?
5 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
6 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
7 Perhaps he thought that a man , or more than one man , was trying to hurt or kill his mother , and perhaps he thought this nearly every night of his life .
8 There was a commitment to the maintenance of full employment , with the Keynesian doctrine that budgetary management could achieve this now a matter of economic orthodoxy .
9 Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ?
10 Is this really the intention of the UN sanctions and , if so , what is the reasoning of it ?
11 Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ?
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