Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through conversation , it was soon realised that although consultants welcomed the concept of the educational supervisor theoretically , they did not all wish to be burdened with this increased responsibility . |
| 2 | He looked so dignified , so calm , so thankful to be gone from this world and from his troublesome son . |
| 3 | Indeed a number of recent centralised initiatives , such as TVEI , seem to be based on this premise , although , as Harland ( 1985 ) points out , compliance can not simply be bought with the allocation of resources . |
| 4 | New economic strategy may well have to be based around this UDC , and could thus become one of partnership and cooperation between the city council and private firms . |
| 5 | The er the er it has to be said on this side I suspect that the brevity of that speech was quite welcome , only because er I think er a number of us were n't altogether sure how how much time we would , we would get in this er debate after the front bench speaks , speeches . |
| 6 | There is , it must be said , a lot to be said for this robust view . |
| 7 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |
| 8 | It may be that there is something to be said for this composite view . |
| 9 | Some people like to plan their trips in meticulous detail , but there 's a lot to be said for this ‘ open-book ’ approach . |
| 10 | The breakdown of English intellectual insularity is welcome in principle , but a few things need to be said about this new turn to France . |
| 11 | Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation . |
| 12 | There is much to be said in this writer 's view for the encouragement of service to the community in these and many other ways , and for the encouragement of individual responsibility and parental control of their children : but the Conservative vision is essentially one-dimensional . |
| 13 | Chair , I I think what needs to be said in this debate is something positive about the work that has come out of particularly Highfields , er and indeed to some extent Moat , in the past . |
| 14 | Thus if learners are aiming to communicate naturally , they need to be prepared for this by being involved in natural communicative language use in the classroom . |
| 15 | If your current account is with Barclays , you can easily arrange for sums to be transferred between this and your Capital Advantage account . |
| 16 | The Installation Directory is also created on each VAX from which LIFESPAN is to be accessed remotely , but only a subset of the delivered files need to be transferred in this case ( see Section 1.3 ) . |
| 17 | It would seem that once again nursing students are to be abused by this government . |
| 18 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 19 | It is absolutely essential for this outbound leg to be flown for this specific distance if you are going to have any hope of reaching your Decision Height on the final approach with the field ahead of you . |
| 20 | The electoral law approved in October [ see pp. 37826-27 ] exceptionally allowed separate 5 per cent hurdles to be applied for this election in the two parts of the country . |
| 21 | Am I to be killed in this mysterious attempt to escape ? ’ |
| 22 | Richard Rodzinski talked about Poland , and his wife observed that we were very lucky to be treated like this in Moscow , and they both laughed too . |
| 23 | It 's very frustrating to be treated like this , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Her mother was so worried she wrote to The Times asking , ‘ Is it fair for any human being , regardless of circumstances , to be treated in this way ? ’ |
| 25 | The book ends with a flurry of ‘ I really never expected to be treated in this way by you ’ accusations and counter-accusations . |
| 26 | Is it fair to ask any human being , regardless of circumstances , to be treated in this way ? ’ |
| 27 | And , at 10 minutes per page for a 24-pin dot matrix printer it 's likely that anything over one copy is going to be treated in this way . |
| 28 | Not all the birds agree that the cassowary deserved to be treated in this way . |
| 29 | Let him who is prepared , should McNab decide on another experiment , to have needles driven into his stomach , allow himself to be treated by this charlatan . |
| 30 | But her own feet , her veins , her weight , and her rheumatism were troubles to be ignored on this day and night when her darling girl was to shine in a proper setting . |