Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may seem strange to include this chapter , but there are two reasons . |
| 2 | He was due to attend this year 's Ryder Cup match at The Belfry , but illness prevented him . |
| 3 | I am a great fan of Ginny 's but I must admit I was upset to see this picture as Murphy must obviously be in pain . |
| 4 | How has the CSA 1985 attempted to embrace this distinction ? |
| 5 | Whilst PageMaker does not itself support the condensing and expanding of type ( a feature that we hope will be included in version 4.0 ) it is possible to perform this trick on the Macintosh — sadly not on the PC . |
| 6 | I hardly ever browse through the jazz section in a record shop ( I have usually been scalped in the classical section , in any case ) , and I would have been very sorry to miss this cracker of a CD . |
| 7 | It is possible to conduct this debate without either side maintaining that the internal organization of the units matters ( witness what will be said about Game Theory in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | It is possible to attend this course from a minimum of one week to as many weeks as the student wishes . |
| 9 | All this variety of opinion , assessment and recommendation will be considered by The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice , which is due to report this month . |
| 10 | Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . |
| 11 | It would be preferable to perform this process once only . |
| 12 | Parliament is due to meet this week . |
| 13 | The Bundesbank is due to meet this morning , and the cost of borrowing is likely to remain unchanged to keep a lid on the German economy . |
| 14 | Sophisticated dyes and colourings make it possible to hide this sign of age for as long as we wish and those in public life may , unfortunately , believe that only by covering the tell-tale grey will they maintain their credibility as energetic and creative top people . |
| 15 | With practice it is possible to increase this speed considerably , bearing in mind the following points : |
| 16 | However , Richard Baxter was hesitant to accept this offer for other reasons also . |
| 17 | It is , however , not possible to accept this judgement in view of the consistency with which either sign appears in very specific musical contexts . |
| 18 | It is not possible to provide this ordering for users of ORACLE RDBMS . |
| 19 | It would be wrong to see this development as involving the replacement of the working class by the new urban left . |
| 20 | Conference , I believe that we can succeed if you are prepared to support this motion and I will leave you with this point . |
| 21 | It is interesting to connect this point with Leapor 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ; as Leapor contemplates her own death , and the soul leaving the body , the last thing she wishes to see is her friend : ‘ Be you the last that leaves my closing Eyes [ ML , 1 , 40 ] . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , nothing is being left to chance , ’ says McGilligan , ‘ It 's very heartening to see this approach . ’ |
| 23 | The Collector was careful to embrace this conviction in a moderate manner , lest he be tipped out of the chair in which he was no longer sitting . |
| 24 | It is interesting to compare this work with that of Lee ( 1988 ) on Hidden Markov Modelling of speech recognition . |
| 25 | It is interesting to compare this fact with the ridicule to which some experts were exposed for developing fermentation methods of producing penicillin — ‘ obviously to be a flop ’ . |
| 26 | It would be wrong to treat this case as a decision on the application of section 6. which was clearly not in the court 's contemplation , but it may be permissible to comment that if an offence of this kind is to be held to be sufficiently serious to justify a substantial community service order , the scheme of the Act , with its albeit clumsy attempt to raise the public perception of the severity of community sentences , seems destined to failure . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , at the end of October 1944 , in moving a resolution for the annual prolongation of Parliament , Churchill had declared , have myself a clear view that it would be wrong to continue this Parliament beyond the period of the German war' . |
| 28 | But maybe she 'd been wrong to accept this job , wrong to come . |
| 29 | He is quite prepared to accept this criticism . |
| 30 | I think this shows a wonderfully sensitive and unselfish attitude in Patsy that she is prepared to accept this relationship . |