Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] this [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Christian women are dissatisfied with this route to equality through male generic neutrality . |
| 2 | The situation would have been analogous in this respect to Halsey v. Esso Petroleum Co . |
| 3 | Second , the same act makes provision for ‘ environmentally sensitive areas ’ ( ESAs ) where annual grants are payable by this ministry to farmers to enable them to follow farming practices which will achieve conservation objectives . |
| 4 | My feelings are similar in this regard to what Claudia felt about her father 's pretensions . |
| 5 | Felicity , see whether you 're alone in this reaction to the face pack or not , and then we 'll take it from there . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The Government does not believe that it would be right for this case to be treated as a precedent . ’ |
| 7 | from what you 've told us , it would be possible for this aircraft to be so multi mission it could replace the whole of the front line er R A F fast jet strain , could that be true ? |
| 8 | It would be undesirable for this process to be fully automated . |
| 9 | Would it not be appropriate for this situation to be remedied by putting Charles Darwin on a new £100 note to emphasise to the world , in these uncertain times , our tradition of change by evolution and not revolution ? |
| 10 | ‘ It is too early to comment on these developments and it would be inappropriate at this stage to entre the public debate , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Assuming that consensus can be reached between both parties as to the principal deal terms , with structuring being used to bridge the inevitable gap between the expectations of the purchaser and vendors , it will be important for this consensus to be confirmed in writing in the form of non-binding heads of agreement . |
| 12 | A superstitious man might fear that the spirit , so recently released , hovered around to be outraged at this insult to the discarded , still vulnerable , flesh . |
| 13 | Contemporary Soviet commentators were reticent on this reference to the Zone but they praised the Non-Aligned for condemning the attempts of ‘ external forces … to aggravate tensions in the region and set one group of countries against the other ‘ and for stressing the need for ’ a comprehensive political solution of the problems of the present tensions in Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 14 | So Richard Lawson is used to this response to canvassing : |
| 15 | But for once , the government is right in this move to ‘ privatisation ’ . |
| 16 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 17 | What is important about this contribution to linguistic theory is that it allows one to analyze the personal or ‘ subjective ’ elements of language without having to resort to any real correlative outside language . |
| 18 | Here , evidently , one party has been ordered to perform , and is appealing against this award to an unsympathetic emperor . |
| 19 | So I have treated quantification here as methodological : it is part of the analytic phase of social dialectology , and it is parallel in this way to the use of quantification and statistics in certain other sciences . |