Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked so dignified , so calm , so thankful to be gone from this world and from his troublesome son . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There is much to be said for this explanation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It would seem that once again nursing students are to be abused by this government . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | The book ends with a flurry of ‘ I really never expected to be treated in this way by you ’ accusations and counter-accusations . |
| 13 | Is it fair to ask any human being , regardless of circumstances , to be treated in this way ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not all the birds agree that the cassowary deserved to be treated in this way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is a test of a young shaman to be strapped to this tree . |
| 19 | A child whose mother has just started full-time employment may only be likely to be disturbed by this event if he has also recently lost his father . |
| 20 | An alternative hypothesis , which has considerable intuitive plausibility , needs to be refuted before this assumption can be justified . |
| 21 | Front-Bench spokemen also represent their constituents , and their constituents are as entitled to be heard on this matter as they are — |
| 22 | Her father , Ron Smith fought a long campaign for the investigation to be heard in this country . |
| 23 | It should be noted , however , that we will not be concerned with an explanation of why football fans and ‘ non-academic pupils ’ as opposed to other groups of boys and girls have come to be cast in this way . |
| 24 | If banks choose not to be tempted in this way then an appeal to their civic duty is misplaced . |
| 25 | The techniques to be presented in this chapter are designed to examine the relationship between three variables in a contingency table . |
| 26 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 27 | If there 's any possibility of anything to be gained from this operation — and in the absence of the kind of labour you 'd prefer to have on a job like this — I thought an extra pair of hands might be welcome . ’ |
| 28 | There is clearly mutual benefit to be gained from this acquisition , for both our UK and US companies , and we look forward to this area of our business competing effectively on an international basis . ’ |
| 29 | The conscious wish of every parent is to launch their children as competent , independent adults , and much satisfaction and pride is to be gained from this process . |
| 30 | Although it is seen that the greatest benefits are likely to be gained in this design situation by taking a design controlling attitude ( high level approach ) to CAD implementation , there are very few companies where this has been attempted , let alone achieved . |