Example sentences of "is [adj] to this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He contends that the style of operation of the CNAA is inimical to this task and that course validation takes too long and compromises in course design which arise from the resolution of the often marked differences within validating boards affect adversely the quality of the work of polytechnics .
2 Freeman 's position is inimical to this view .
3 ‘ How Long Can This Go On ’ , ‘ Save A Soul In Every Town ’ , ‘ Ideal World ’ , — even the CRASSEST agit-pop militancy is preferable to this cooing and billowing Radox bath of sententious platitudes .
4 So Richard Lawson is used to this response to canvassing :
5 A B C table and one relation which is specific to this task : on ( x , y ) .
6 But that claim assumes that every such accident is attributable to this cause .
7 The dictum of Byles J. in Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works , 14 C.B.N.S. 180 , 194 , is clear to this effect and has been followed in many subsequent cases .
8 Lou was doubtless bemused by it all and is convinced to this day her son was not a homosexual at all — ‘ thank God he was nothing like that ’ , she says .
9 The concept of the ‘ biographical career ’ is central to this approach as it allows consideration of the uniqueness of individual biographies , the meanings which individuals attach to the concepts of age and ageing , and how these change over time ( Johnson , 1978 ; Fairhurst and Lightup , 1982 ) .
10 Since the issue of W. 's competence to make a decision about her treatment for anorexia is central to this appeal I record ( at this stage without comment ) the finding of Thorpe J. on this issue : ‘ There is no doubt at all that W. is a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision .
11 What he said — if contemporary accounts are to be believed — includes the first use of the word that , as a geographical descriptive and identifier , is central to this book and , if one accepts the dominant economic theses of today , central to the future development of the planet .
12 The formal machinery of law is crucial to this concern , and exacting a legal sanction by means of the legal process is a relatively routine matter .
13 The religious parties in Israel are an example of this type of group ( the type of electoral system is crucial to this development — see chapter 26 ) .
14 Indeed , the new dominant group has many more real industrial links , and the extent to which industrial issues , and in particular job losses consequent on industrial restructuring , have been interpreted as local issues , is crucial to this aspect of politics in North Shields .
15 What is crucial to this argument , if extended a little beyond Gombrich 's own assessment , is that the frame 's anonymous and modest presence belies its significance for the appreciation of the work of art .
16 It shows that pre-modern power takes place via a set of unmediated exchanges between subjects , while modern power stems from a relationship between fields ( whose symbolic economy imparts to them their structure ) and the ‘ consumer ’ who is subject to this power .
17 Specify a charge code that is accessible to this user , or use a different module owner .
18 ‘ Either we have caught a sickness which is native to this world and we have no immunity against it , or maybe we have brought something with us , and because the air and the temperature are different here , it grows and alters .
19 In the first case , identification with the law does not express identification with the society which is hostile to this law .
20 The infra-red remote control is unique to this machine , and the only other way to get into it is via a master key held by the system supervisor .
21 Only one of these peptides indicated by arrow number 3 is unique to this elution , the other three being present either with beads alone ( arrow 1 and present in lanes 2-7 , 9 and 10 ) , also enriched with oligonucleotide 168 ( arrow 2 and present in lanes 7-11 ) or present in HeLa extract ( arrow 4 and present in lanes 5-7 and 9-11 ) .
22 Only one of these peptides indicated by arrow number 3 is unique to this elution , the other three being present either with beads alone ( arrow 1 ) , enriched with oligonucleotide 168 ( arrow 2 ) or present in HeLa extract ( arrow 4 ) .
23 Around the perimeter of the head there is a pitted fringe , which is unique to this kind of arthropod .
24 Question Time is unique to this Parliament .
25 Well the doctors are , I 'll explain one thing this er which is unique to this product .
26 We are fortunate to be blessed in Colwyn Bay with a climate that favour cultivation of exotic and temperate plants , the like of which is unique to this climate .
27 The family house itself assumes a special prominence which is unique to this class .
28 We now move on to examine the question : who is equal to this task ?
29 Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round .
30 Information on agricultural land use is unimportant to this application , whereas urban detail illustrating housing densities or alternative urban land is highly desirable .
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