Example sentences of "[to-vb] this [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the first study from the United Kingdom to examine the cost of maintaining patients on long term sclerotherapy , and it is also the first to compare this with a surgical procedure in such patients . |
| 2 | Furthermore , even if acculturation to a dominant order was a feature of early Chicago society there was , according to Castells , no need to promote this as a universal process occurring in all cities . |
| 3 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 4 | Except in the case of Mary of Guise , however , it is going too far to see this as a general affirmation of enthusiasm for the Auld Alliance , and total alienation from England , or as a means of eradicating Protestantism . |
| 5 | And of course it 's very hard to see this as a neural network . |
| 6 | If they can learn to sustain this over a long while , The La 's would be world-shakers . |
| 7 | A low vision aid must be held at the correct distance from the material to be viewed for maximum magnification to be effected , and it can be difficult to sustain this with a hand-held magnifier for any length of time . |
| 8 | He says ; I want you to treat this as a real situation . |
| 9 | We 'd discuss our budget and say ‘ are you able to support this as a viable budget ? ’ . |
| 10 | As mortgages tend to be for a long term and in view of the fact that 75% of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding it is reasonable to classify this as a long-term liability . |
| 11 | It is best to classify this as a prefix-suffix error : any corrective teaching should focus the children 's attention on the effect of -ing on words that end in -e . |
| 12 | This unit will be conducted by Mrs Chris Smith , Pastoral Director at Ushaw , and people are welcome to attend this as a complete course in its own right , or as the first stage in the longer course which contains five further units . |
| 13 | Further , you say that money is tight but whilst there is still money for increasing staff numbers we are not prepared to accept this as a major reason against . |
| 14 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 15 | Do n't you come across many teachers who say something along the lines ‘ I 'd love to try this experiment ’ , or ‘ I 'd like to try this in a different way , but I have C S E or O level or A level coming up for my children in a term or a year and I ca n't possibly afford to do other than cram them for these examinations ’ . |
| 16 | However , the keen aquarist should be able to obtain this through a special plant collector from abroad . |
| 17 | It is difficult , given Korngold 's Hollywood output , not to imagine this as a mighty movie score , but it is none the worse for that , and those existing admirers of Korngold 's music should get great pleasure from this . |
| 18 | First , it was particularly interesting to find changes in the IMHV after passive avoidance training because Gabriel Horn had already been able to identify this as a key brain region for imprinting . |
| 19 | Like their opponents , these anti-Nazis had stressed Europe 's cultural heritage ( rather as Germany 's 19th-century philosophers had stressed Germany 's culture and its superiority over the French ) and sought to use this as a political model . |
| 20 | A third way to gather information is to compile a check list of the kind of data , and anecdote , needed , and then to use this in a tape-recorded interview ( or interviews , for cross-checking can be valuable ) at which the list helps to ensure all the important topics are covered . |
| 21 | If there is anxiety about your child being unable to express painful thoughts and feelings , it could be helpful to do this with a professional person , such as a therapist or psychologist . |
| 22 | Some companies employ people to do this on a full-time basis . |
| 23 | Finding helpers willing to act as car park attendants may be difficult if you intend to do this on a regular basis . |
| 24 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 25 | To do this on a significant scale he had either to supersede another lord or outrank him so that the following of one lord became a component in the retinue of a superior lord . |
| 26 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 27 | But you need to do this in a constructive way which will help them to change their behaviour |
| 28 | They must prove to Thadeus that they 're here to destroy what he hates , and they 've got to do this in a reasonable period of time . |
| 29 | Now if you want to do this in a proper way , then you do it in a proper way . |
| 30 | Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence . |