Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to this [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The intention of the clause is to reflect the increased likelihood of damage to this equipment under the strain of racing .
2 In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people .
3 He listened to her intently , even with deference , and Riven , remembering Hugh on the occasions when he had met Jenny , thought that perhaps there was a twisted sort of logic to this world after all .
4 Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said .
5 The assimilation of individualism to this version of anti-determinism presents the individualist with an intractable dilemma .
6 The logic of significance testing with respect to this type of issue is discussed by Erickson and Nosanchuk ( 1977 , chapter 8 ) and Butler ( 1985b , chapter 6 ) .
7 Yet two facts must be stressed at the outset with relation to this problem in inter-war Britain .
8 They had sacked Peyrat-le-Château and ravaged the surrounding countryside to the east of Limoges , possibly acting in collusion with Viscount Aimar , since it seems to have been in response to this act of aggression that Mercadier struck at Excideuil in February 1184 .
9 Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad .
10 It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed .
11 There was no general consistency in response to this group of questions , which may have indicated that subjects responding correctly did so out of knowledge of the scientific findings .
12 In response to this tuition in examination techniques was introduced for the 1981 cohort and the statistical difference between matriculated and non matriculated students was eliminated .
13 In response to this line of thought it may well be pointed out that the subordination of woman to man is depicted in scripture as having resulted from the fall .
14 In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit .
15 In addition to this worry about the dual role , some teachers , and headteachers in particular , doubt the skills and experience of advisers .
16 In addition to this kind of specific organization , guilds in some societies were involved in more general cultural production .
17 In addition to this kind of recording there may be a good case for producing your own teacher training materials , based on in-house recording .
18 In addition to this year on year process of requesting Parliament to sanction public expenditure , there are also the on-going series of public expenditure surveys which predict the level of public expenditure over the medium term .
19 In addition to this price for their success , the Allies had lost 169 raiders killed and about 200 taken prisoner .
20 In addition to this type of gas water heater , there are electric instantaneous water heaters for providing hot water for showers .
21 In addition to this tension in the purposes of assessment pointed to by Broadfoot , we also have to consider the future impact of proposals to introduce national testing at regular intervals .
22 In addition to this breach of the moral duty of fidelity , the court appears to have been concerned with the risk of confidential information being passed to competitors , because it was satisfied that the plaintiffs did own certain business secrets of which the employees had knowledge .
23 In addition to this process of educational integration , secondary schools should maintain close contact with special schools so that teenage children understand more about mental handicap .
24 In addition to this aspect of the deal , the acquisition is also intended to enable SFA to expand its involvement with the European market .
25 In addition to this decrease in size child bearing is now concentrated into a much shorter period of a woman 's life .
26 In conclusion to this section on depositional fabrics it can be seen that a considerable amount of information can be gained from petrographic studies which can be used to supplement field studies and gain insight into the origins of the sediment .
27 What can I say in answer to this charge of irrelevance ?
28 And under the " public good " defence it may be relevant to the jury 's task of evaluating the merit of a particular book to compare it with other books of the same kind , and to hear expert evidence about the current climate of permissiveness in relation to this kind of literature .
29 PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS The inception date of the policy is very important in relation to this section of the policy .
30 The evidence which is directed to the appellants ' intentions in relation to this matter of contempt is , first , that the appellants claim that the terms of the injunction made by the deputy judge in October 1989 were not explained to them .
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