Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope that many practitioners will be willing to support us in this effort . |
| 2 | If there has genuinely been no opportunity for the candidate to find out about practical matters of pay and conditions in advance then it is sensible to discuss them at this stage , and you should have all the necessary details ready . |
| 3 | The USSR is not prepared to expose itself in this fashion in Nicaragua . |
| 4 | And at least one philosopher ( Routley 1981 ) is prepared to defend them in this view . |
| 5 | Thomas Hayes , however , the forensic expert responsible for identifying the tiny piece of Swiss circuit board , was not prepared to commit himself on this point . |
| 6 | Er perhaps it is impossible to answer it in this forum but I think it remains an open question sir . |
| 7 | Finally it is appropriate to say something at this point about the fact , discussed in detail in Chapter 2 , that habituation does not show context dependence . |
| 8 | Single carers who have given up work to care appear to be especially likely to find themselves in this situation . |
| 9 | But Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills were not invited , and would in any case have been horrified to find themselves among this conclave of radicals . |
| 10 | Now , five years later , the battles are won ( significant skirmishes remain , but it would be unwise and ungenerous to detail them at this point ) . |
| 11 | Sean 's dad did not even leave his seat because he was unprepared to do anything about this problem , but he knew that he should do something about it . |
| 12 | ‘ Is that what 's supposed to keep me in this dress ? |
| 13 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 14 | is it not possible to do something in this state of day in high technology |
| 15 | But I have not seen much evidence that it is really possible to do it on this scale . |
| 16 | These three questions clearly overlap , but can be treated as conceptually separate , and it is helpful to disentangle them in this way at least initially . |
| 17 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 18 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 19 | Although I would love to be able to take regular trips to the countryside , I am often unable to indulge myself in this luxury and so instead I choose to walk and cycle through Richmond Park in London . |
| 20 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 21 | I was , however , able to reassure her on this point , as I could see no prospects of my ever getting close enough to any American for him to even ask my name , never mind ask me to marry him — and in the 1940 's you did have to wait to be asked . |
| 22 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 23 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 24 | Losing them was bitter , and my only reward is that now I can afford the one thing which with all my wealth and power I 've never been able to permit myself until this moment . |
| 25 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 26 | I regret that I am unable to assist you with this aspect at this time . |
| 27 | The last heart attack had been a big one , and he was n't able to shrug it off this time . |
| 28 | Erm and also from er Alan MP from he er thanked us for inviting er him here today but he says , unfortunately I already have a previous engagement in London , and so will be unable to join you on this occasion . |
| 29 | Or are you happy to take it under this umbrella umbrella heading ? |
| 30 | If a young person who reached the age of 16 on July 2 was lucky enough to obtain employment would they be unable to avail themselves of this opportunity and be forced back to school ? |