Example sentences of "this is [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | This is either a trap , Ace thought , or else the Doctor 's found a way to let us in . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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. |
5 | This is particularly a problem in chronic disease . |
6 | This is particularly a problem in the rural areas , and it 's particularly in the rural areas where this happens . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | This is both a luxury and a necessity . |
11 | This is even a problem in better documented periods , and will only be resolved , if at all , by extensive research at the sites . |
12 | This is presumably a result of the flexibility of the chain which allows extensive convolution thereby impeding stabilization of the required long range alignment . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | This is partly a question of the so-called ‘ burden of dependency ’ . |
15 | This is partly a question of attitude , partly a matter of training . |
16 | This is partly a reflection of the growing responsibility which the Welsh Office has assumed for education at all levels in the Principality . |
17 | ‘ I think this is partly a reaction against the artificial nature of our media system , ’ says Sut Jhally , a communications professor at Amherst University . |
18 | This is partly a consequence of simple arithmetic . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 ) . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | This is partly a result of the success of the Registration and Inspection Service 's efforts to encourage a move to more single room provision . |
24 | This is partly a result of the small sizes of international bond issues , but also a consequence of the long holding periods typical of such bonds . |
25 | This is partly a matter of winning and keeping customers . |
26 | This is partly a matter of technology — more paper mills need to be built with the capacity to take old paper instead of new pulp . |
27 | This is partly a matter of religious faith concerning the world to come . |
28 | This is partly a matter of the distinction between ways of understanding the abstract character of a system and actual history already identified in a quotation from Gramsci . |
29 | This is partly a matter of writing appropriate sentences , for example , so that you can distinguish your point of view in debate from someone else 's . |
30 | This is partly a joke ( he can glide effortlessly among concepts when required ) ; partly a nod towards the carnage that , in central Europe at least , lies at the end of the a priori road . |