Example sentences of "[adv] to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one way or another a great many people owed much to this benevolent physician and he gave to Philip Miller an opportunity which would ultimately benefit botany and horticulture throughout the world . |
| 2 | Sadly , Jimmy died in 1989 , but all of the achievements owe much to this dear , departed , friend . |
| 3 | It certainly continued to give opportunity for glory , for self-advancement , and for material gain ; in that respect it has not changed much to this day . |
| 4 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 5 | She fell silent , unable to speak openly — especially to this man — of the torment writhing within her . |
| 6 | The Great Patriotic War is testimony enough to this , but the Soviet regime was conceived in war : an interstate war turned by pressure of events and conscious strategy into civil war . |
| 7 | American and European children had been known to respond well enough to this form of words and schooled Wolof children did so too . |
| 8 | Had it all come down to this ? |
| 9 | It comes down to this : a rejection of the single most important human fact between Newton and the Atomic Bomb — the sudden multiple increase of the earth 's population , the coming into existence of the MASSES . |
| 10 | But Prince is either too frivolous or too religious for his flighty fancies to be pinned down to this discourse of responsibility and constructive intervention . |
| 11 | I settle down to this lovely rhythm and feel the health in my body . ’ |
| 12 | In a country as large as Australia the need for transportation fuels is paramount and even to keep growth down to this level will mean continuing efforts at economy by use of smaller cars and the replacement of oil-fired by coal-fired power stations . |
| 13 | It comes down to this : can the ERM be modified to preserve some of the benefits of exchange-rate stability , while allowing governments greater freedom to change monetary policy according to domestic economic circumstances ? |
| 14 | In essence , it came down to this : that he felt meaningless , empty , almost invisible unless one or more of her sex were doting on him . |
| 15 | ICL now has quite an array of Unixes running on its systems , from a Unix System Labs-derived , Sun Microsystems Inc SunOS-compatible Unix SVR4 on its Sparc-based DRS6000 series , to USL Unix SVR4 on the Intel DRS3000 servers , down to this latest shrink-wrapped offering and SCO stuff at the low-end . |
| 16 | It simply comes down to this : if deer are not culled , they die of starvation . |
| 17 | ‘ I usually only scrub the front tyre when I get into a turn too hot but this is how it goes : You 're in fourth gear and jetting down to this U-turn . |
| 18 | And I went down to this bird 's down by the library two weeks ago and this same fella came in with a gram and he was like that , giving out big smokes . |
| 19 | right , science , right come on then let's get down to this ! |
| 20 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 21 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 22 | ‘ In the end I think the problem comes down to this : what does public policy demand as best to be done ? |
| 23 | And if you also look the most the the the clearest change that 's happened on the outside of this building , if you look at that window , if you if you follow the edge of the window the original window came all the way down to this point , and then across and up , and this has been all blocked up . |
| 24 | I just remember them wheeling me down to this room and going to sleep . |
| 25 | And by er nineteen twenty six the engineers suffered a calamitous drop from about er four pound odd down to this two pound sixteen . |
| 26 | But there there was no facilities for running on you see and when when we had to ride that one , the chair would come down to this inset ninety yards you see ? |
| 27 | And the pensioners go down to this bungalow free , and it 's in lovely spot and we gave something like two thousand pound for it . |
| 28 | ’ Then send it down to this position to pick me up ’ . |
| 29 | The financial accounting question comes down to this : which year(s) bears the 10,000 ? |
| 30 | However , because all the seismic stations have been placed on the near side the wave speeds down to this depth only reliably apply to the near side . |