Example sentences of "[vb infin] to this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 3 | Both the Carlist right and the extremist left could later appeal to this primitive rebellion . |
| 4 | The student has to be able to say : I understand this for myself ; I can assent to this , but not that . |
| 5 | It would , in my opinion , in many ways be more logical for an application to be released from custody on the ground of non-service or delayed service of a committal notice to be made to a first instance judge rather than direct to this court . |
| 6 | Many who did not object to this in principle disliked the high-handed way it was adopted . |
| 7 | One may well object to this , but perhaps not on grounds which can be called Benthamite . |
| 8 | The social worker might hold that the client 's general conduct towards him indicated that she would not object to this action ( implied consent ) ; that he carried out the act in good faith as to its consolatory and therapeutic implication ; or ( perhaps less validly ) that the relationship was sufficiently close to allow a gesture of endearment without sexual implication or threatening content . |
| 9 | One might object to this definition of free will on the grounds that once we find a complete unified theory we will be able to predict what people will do . |
| 10 | Would it object to this treatment of its old dwelling before the proper rites had been observed ? |
| 11 | many would also object to this kind of contribution to John 's wage packet . |
| 12 | Even today 's less hungry navvies will surely object to this soon . |
| 13 | Surely the dead man 's ghost would object to this ? |
| 14 | 5.9.5 On a permitted assignment to a private limited company and if the Landlord shall reasonably so require to procure that a guarantor or guarantors reasonably acceptable to the Landlord enter into direct covenants with the Landlord in the form of the Guarantor 's covenant contained in this Lease with " the Assignee " substituted for " the Tenant " There are various matters to be considered in connection with a permitted underlease ( not the least of which being as to whether the tenant should be allowed to underlet part or parts of the premises as well as to whole ) , eg : ( 1 ) In respect of any permitted underlease it is better to remove reference to the landlord 's approval of the rent reserved by it , and if possible ( particularly in a falling market ) to remove reference to the rent being no less than the passing rent under the lease , although the landlord will normally object to this on the basis that a low underlease rent could be used as a comparable on any subsequent rent review under the lease . |
| 15 | Being aware of the strict alcohol regulations , I did not object to this , although I did think it rather unfair that a school-friend was obliged to dispose of his soft drink before he entered the ground . |
| 16 | Does anybody object to this strategy of violence ? |
| 17 | He had been a little surprised that Miriam should surrender to this sort of jealousy , but perhaps he was not altogether displeased , because he found it feminine … in an attractive woman even faults and weaknesses are endearing . |
| 18 | Violet was surprised , that she should even speak to this man — and the crudest talk at that . |
| 19 | Should we speak to this Crumwallis first , do you think , while the technical chaps are playing their games upstairs ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Did you speak to this witness ? ’ |
| 21 | Having said that I 'll try and speak to this . |
| 22 | Well we had oh I 'm trying to think what we had today oh got out of assembly because I had to go and speak to this maths teacher who 's dead boring ! |
| 23 | But , let's notice that , first of all , the Lord really did speak to this woman ! |
| 24 | You do not warm to this lady , who delivers her lines to camera as if waiting for the canned laughter . |
| 25 | Her voice held the indignation that any Englishwoman would naturally bring to this subject . |
| 26 | erm and then the , the , the second import erm major action was about erm local government , and I think that 's really where the point which we , we 've reached a take-home message that we want to erm bring to this council . |
| 27 | What do we bring to this partnership for the voluntary sector . |
| 28 | We would be grateful for any publicity you can give to this event , including photographs . |
| 29 | It is possible to argue that certain sections could , with advantage , have been expanded to stress the more chemical aspects of topics — eg the section of enzymes ‘ in reverse ’ ( why not refer to this as synthesis ? ) touches on an area of great value and which is increasingly used industrially . |
| 30 | The function unc can also be represented as an augmented Phillips curve and we shall refer to this relationship as the inflation-unemployment curve . |