Example sentences of "this [is] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of visitors is increasing from year to year but at the peak of the holiday season this is causing more congestion and overuse of the landscape . |
| 2 | This is causing local people some alarm . |
| 3 | This is causing considerable disquiet amongst TEC Board members who do not wish to see long-term plans hijacked by such short-term changes in the demand for national programmes arising from the recession Many employers are reluctant to become involved either because they have a shortage of work or they can not afford the financial contribution expected of them . ’ |
| 4 | minister 's well aware , this is causing considerable concern amongst the small percent of the population in Southend-on-Sea who are interested in European elections because the proposal is that instead of the links with Chelmsford , as we are at present , we 're going to be linked with Thurrock , which of course is something different . |
| 5 | This is causing some difficulties . |
| 6 | This is to confirm that |
| 7 | ‘ This is getting stupid , ’ Gazzer was thinking . |
| 8 | ‘ This is getting worse , ’ said Angalo . |
| 9 | This is getting worse and I 'm also developing the same pains in my fingers , wrists , ankles and toes , as well as in my hips . |
| 10 | This is getting daft . |
| 11 | This is getting closer ! |
| 12 | This is getting serious . |
| 13 | This is getting regular now . |
| 14 | Like everything else , this is getting nearer to being over . |
| 15 | … this is getting silly : - ) |
| 16 | Look this is getting silly . |
| 17 | Can you two go and sit down with daddy please cos this is getting silly . |
| 18 | This is given various names , such as the nucleus or executive ; we will use the term supervisor for this basic set of main-store-resident supervisory programs . |
| 19 | This is given added weight by the Court of Appeal judgement of July 1988 which applied the Race Relations Act 1976 to travellers . |
| 20 | This is done first by examining the analytics of the cost and demand sides , the subject of this chapter , and then concentrating more on the internal structure of the firm ( in chapter 3 ) , in order to move on to the question of efficiency . |
| 21 | An alternative way of looking at this is to posit another principle also universally present in human intercourse . |
| 22 | This is up-rated each year in April . |
| 23 | Airport staff put the information into LASMO 's computer system at check-in , and this is kept up-to-date throughout the duration of any offshore visit . |
| 24 | It is essential that you wear protective clothing and that this is kept clean and changed frequently . |
| 25 | This is to state that is an accredited volunteer with Christian Aid and has agreed with the appropriate Department at Head Office a specific work arrangement . |
| 26 | Once of the easiest ways of doing this is to use semi-rigid cavity wall batts — the insulating slabs fitted in the cavities of newly-built houses . |
| 27 | The goal of this is to stop needless generation of very large quantities of approval work for each approval attempt . |
| 28 | However , because the reptation is assumed to occur by migration of a segmental kink along the chain , the force needed to do this is applied one segment at a time and so it is more appropriate to use the frictional factor per segment ζ . |
| 29 | This is made clearer in the description of the London Beggar , whom Wordsworth did not help and yet who manifestly affected him considerably . |
| 30 | This definition suggests two of the major deficiencies of the international legal system — firstly that there is little one country can do if another fails to abide by the rules , and this is made worse by the second factor , the lack of a comprehensive single body of law that could form the basis of a truly coherent system . |