Example sentences of "a situation [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hardly a situation conducive to producing a relaxed and committed rugby player , just newly married . |
| 2 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 3 | This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother . |
| 4 | The Council for National Parks would like to see a situation similar to that in America , where the onus is on the developer to prove that his proposal is in the interest of the park , that it is necessary and also appropriate . |
| 5 | This implies a situation similar to that of the perception of Kana and Kanji script in Japanese subjects , and also to that of the perception of English words and pictures . |
| 6 | The Belfast and general Hiberno-English system seems to display a situation similar to EModE , and they cast considerable doubt on the principle of irreversibility of merger . |
| 7 | So by selecting the appropriate value for γ 2 the government can render the distinction between aggregate and relative demand shocks irrelevant and create for agents a situation similar to one of full current information . |
| 8 | This suggests a situation similar to that of make and cause , involving two different ways of conceiving permission in English . |
| 9 | He also announced that Manoon and Chalerm had escaped from Bangkok , but when located would be arrested and charged with creating a situation detrimental to national security . |
| 10 | The former Pakistani Foreign Minister , Agha Shahi , suggested similarly in December 1984 that the strict non-alignment of the countries spanning the Persian Gulf and South Asian regions , together with American willingness to concede the Soviet Union a role in a comprehensive Middle East settlement , might create a situation congenial to the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan . |
| 11 | Administering the remedies in this way allows the body to process each remedy individually , a situation analogous to presenting a computer with only one program at a time . |