Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some Christian women are dissatisfied with this route to equality through male generic neutrality .
2 In chapter four the " turnyng til Jhesu " from all worldly things ( 94.2 ) is like the " insuperabel " love , while the second degree , " inseperabel " relates to the injunction to remember that all time is lost which is not God-centred and to contemplate the joy of those who are stable in this love until death ( 95.38f . ) .
3 Although some of these fish are persistent in this action , in my experience many grow out of it as they mature .
4 One reason why women are under-represented in this area is undoubtedly that the sociology of deviance has , until recently , concentrated specifically on criminal behaviour .
5 The most amusing commentary on the limitations which are inherent in this type of research , however , is perhaps that enshrined in the Indonesian concept of a ‘ statistical Muslim ’ ( or Islam statistique ) , a person who , while not actively practising the faith , so records his identity for census and other purposes .
6 Round Table Day is made for Table and Table only and has all the best features which are inherent in this movement .
7 For many of us there are the added problems of the other commitments that are normal at this time of our lives .
8 Tumin claims that the American Medical Association has been guilty of this practice .
9 The significant results achieved using this text may have been specific to this domain and hence not necessarily repeatable in other domains ( i.e. the OALD may provide unusually good coverage of commercial or financial terminology ) .
10 In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause .
11 ‘ Your emotions are strong at this moment . ’
12 For , suppose we know that the main variable of interest in the study varies much less within strata than overall , then much more precise estimates are possible for this variable .
13 Similarly some attempts at self-dressing are possible at this age ( excluding buttons and fastenings ) while a 5-year-old should be able to manage all aspects of getting dressed .
14 The law requires you to wear a harness , so learn what movements are possible within this encumbrance .
15 ‘ Before you say we 're not lovers , Claudia , remember that many things are possible in this world , though it will take a miracle to make me forget whose lover you really are . ’
16 Thereafter the play received a few critically acclaimed performances in Birmingham but has otherwise been unperformed in this country .
17 We are grateful to this member for bringing the subject before us .
18 Horticultural staff are disadvantaged in this regard .
19 Mr Court was a principal architect of this Society as it is today and I am grateful for this opportunity to pay tribute to the very considerable part he has played in the development of the Society over the past 16 years .
20 I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided .
21 I am grateful for this invitation and would like to attend the launch .
22 tournament administrator , said : ‘ The tournament really would n't have been possible without this sponsorship .
23 However , they were originally scheduled for different nights , but it has always been possible for this scenario to arrise , so why did n't they just schedule the matches to be played at the same time no matter what ?
24 This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years .
25 Lynall Urwick put forward a counter-argument that a wide span of control had been possible in this example because the work of the merchandising managers did not interlock , and so the need for coordination and integration was not present : this reduced the burdens of supervision and made a wider span of control feasible .
26 Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision .
27 The availability of omeprazole allowed us to achieve complete healing of oesophagitis in all our patients which would not have been possible before this drug was available .
28 He said , ‘ I am sorry for this annoyance .
29 The top four attributes are each of this type .
30 The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives .
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