Example sentences of "[adj] to this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be a feature almost peculiar to this country , and nothing could be healthier for scholarship . |
| 2 | The house is built of rock-faced sandstone which is of the deepest pink , peculiar to this area , and its roofs are of patterned slate . |
| 3 | After all , the physical facts of life are commonplace throughout the universe ; the biological , so far as we know , are peculiar to this planet and then for only a very brief part of its history . |
| 4 | The toddler age group is particularly prone to this type of behaviour problem and parents may seek help from GPs and paediatricians who may just say that the child will grow out of it ( Christopherson 1986 ) . |
| 5 | Ogons are especially prone to this foreshortening |
| 6 | Congenital deafness is more commonly associated with some dogs than others — white boxers , for example , are prone to this condition . |
| 7 | All fish that actually have a swimbladder , are prone to this disorder , but it seems some species particularly the fancy varieties of ornamental fish are especially at risk , in particular goldfish . |
| 8 | Agribusiness that operates in sectors marked by seasonal fluctuations has been prone to this sort of employment . |
| 9 | Some of Poulantzas ' own claims seem prone to this sort of problem : the hegemonal position of a class , for instance , is a function of its economic , political and ideological roles , of the form of the state , of its relations with other classes and functions , and the state of the class struggle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For years she 'd been so meek , so biddable to this man , and all for what ? |
| 12 | He represents something exciting to this community , two fingers to the authorities . |
| 13 | In some ways she was very unsuited to this life — indeed she has described herself as a ‘ misfit ’ in Baldersdale . |
| 14 | Certainly scientific approaches had come to be seen as unsuited to this project and therefore increasingly discarded . |
| 15 | Rhonda was superfluous to this scene , and had disappeared back to her dressing room . |
| 16 | After all , the world , sadly , has grown rather inured to this kind of outrage . |
| 17 | The matter is rather tangential to this Bill , but I am glad to clarify the position . |
| 18 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 19 | That was not acceptable to this country . |
| 20 | Er a , they are dependent on them in many ways , b , if they desert , they 're not acceptable to this society . |
| 21 | A car similar to this G-T-O fetched four million pounds at auction last year . |
| 22 | er er er would n't be used , because er he was never heard he was never he was heard , he was never heard , erm similar to this Lord Haw-Haw , you know that used to do the broadcasting er from from Nazi Germany to er to Britain , particularly to England . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As nothing similar to this system exists in any European language this could be a particularly difficult thing to learn . |
| 25 | The old-fashioned backdrop painted with its winking windows had been remarkably similar to this view , his view . |
| 26 | Congress , last year the Northern Region voted against the special report titled Wider Democracy , which is very similar to this report . |
| 27 | Death must be similar to this feeling , he thought . |
| 28 | Initially Verity Lambert was resistant to this change , only in retrospect agreeing this gave Susan 's character greater depth than otherwise might have been possible : |
| 29 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
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