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

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1 Gentleman , this is to quaint you all of you cor Serning the Billing of this workhous think to starve the poore theare Stephen Wite Stratford Lews of Barfield Wile of TataSon Loyd hintlesham but let them tak care of thin Selves for farit that is hap on shall there Brains be Blown out and that as sure as death and fail not and the hous shall not be bilt a toyle for theare shall be 500 planted soon and will di all it and pull Wiles hous down .
2 This is to misrepresent religion .
3 I have mentioned research , and this is of prime importance in gold prospecting .
4 This is of major importance .
5 This is of real interest to me , since I am currently running a study into tourism ( we have convened an expert advisory group ) in order to influence the new ‘ Tourism 2000 ’ strategy being prepared by the Wales Tourist Board .
6 Intact proinsulin and 32–33 split proinsulin constitute a higher percentage of the total insulin and insulin precursor molecules in the plasma of fasting subjects with non-insulin dependent diabetes but this is of uncertain pathophysiological significance .
7 All this is of great significance for exploring Leonard 's characteristics , for what was natural to Leonard 's incipient viewpoint and versification now found stimulating and corroborative encouragement .
8 This is of great advantage to good horse trainers , but a real bane to poor ones .
9 This is of great interest from the aromatherapy viewpoint because there is no risk of solvent residues in the resulting extraction .
10 This is of great significance to our understanding of children as writers .
11 This is of great interest since perfect contestability " turns out to have important efficiency properties .
12 This is of great importance in providing a basis for the cultivation of cereals and the grazing of animals in an area where opportunities for agriculture are severely restricted .
13 Minimising — acceptance that the sufferer has a problem and that there are some consequences in the family but refusal to accept that any of this is of great significance or that the family can not cope from within its own resources .
14 This is of great importance in practice because planning permissions are invariably granted subject to a condition that the permitted development is begun within a stipulated time .
15 If this is of limited interest , say a knitting wool , you would find it wasteful to go on TV because so many viewers would not be knitters .
16 Note that this is of limited use as it implies that the data is held only in the index or in the main file .
17 It is assumed that they will act responsibly , and if there is maladministration or corruption there is the right of appeal to the ombudsman or the courts , though in practice this is of limited use .
18 This is of limited use in personal injury work where these items can not be recovered separately on a taxation .
19 In telling such stories , people display the ways in which they think about health and illness , and this is of central interest to this study .
20 This is of practical importance particularly in the case of closely held companies or wholly-owned subsidiaries where the conduct complained of may well have received unanimous shareholder assent , which would otherwise have the effect of regularising the transaction and hence preventing the liquidator from taking remedial action .
21 This is of key theoretical importance in many of Freud 's writings , both in the more sociological works and in many case-histories .
22 For most applications , this is of low significance , but there is a more involved method of making the tube which brings the wall to a constant 1mm over the same variation of outside diameters , from 6.35 through 7,7.5 and 8mm .
23 But there is a very urgent sense in which the Caribbean family fails to encourage sufficiently or places too much pressure on their offspring at school ; and there is every reason to surmise that this is of general relevance — not just to sportsmen .
24 This is of crucial importance , because restrictions on trade between EC countries will not be permitted post-1992 ; hence with the present system of VERs , Japanese cars would be imported into one EC country without a VER and then moved to another EC country with a VER .
25 The answer to this is of crucial importance because of the doctrine of privity of contract ; only the parties to a contract can sue on it .
26 Of course this is of small comfort for Christianity .
27 This is of special relevance when very slow growing organisms , such as mycobacteria ( which may take months to culture ) are being sought .
28 This is of clear benefit to French artists but as the present exhibition shows , other European artists gain also .
29 But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future .
30 This is of extreme value and should be used more often by young choreographers .
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