Example sentences of "this [vb -s] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age . |
| 2 | This goes to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office along with the NI contributions and tax deducted in the previous month . |
| 3 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 4 | I resume my explanation of the Bill , and this goes to the very heart of the issues raised by the two hon. Gentlemen . |
| 5 | Therefore the flower is ultimately linked to the earth itself , which is thought of as part of a ‘ sphere ’ — this refers to the Ptolemaic system , already out of date in the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | This points to the real worry about 1991 : not that it will not be good enough , but that it will be too good . |
| 7 | Surely , all of this points to the urgent need to define a common strategy and a corporate working agenda . |
| 8 | Easthope concedes , ‘ Spoken performance of pentameter is accordingly open to variation in a way accentual verse is not ’ , and this points to the massive lacuna at the heart of his book . |
| 9 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 10 | This adds to the substantial shareholding MDH bought in 1991 . |
| 11 | ( This adds to the dramatic tension . ) |
| 12 | The picture is in black and white — there is never enough night light for colours to emerge — and this adds to the unreal quality . |
| 13 | Here we would never maintain the whole is suffering environmental decline , but that parts of it are , and this matters to the numerous people living there . |
| 14 | This defaults to the current module owner . |
| 15 | This defaults to the current module manager . |
| 16 | This corresponds to the boiling pressure of C at this temperature . |
| 17 | This corresponds to the boiling pressure of D at this temperature . |
| 18 | The acute starvation of anorexia may be life-threatening from malnutrition , disturbance of body fluid balance and decrease in defence against infections and should therefore be supervised in hospital or a specialist addiction unit — ( This corresponds to the acute risks of epileptic fits or delirium tremens in withdrawal in alcoholism . ) |
| 19 | This corresponds to the main character 's own personal situation of being without a man . |
| 20 | This corresponds to the Archibenthic Zone of Transition in the eastern Atlantic and to the Abyssal Province in the west . |
| 21 | This reaches to the outer limits of hardcore with Carl Cox 's ‘ Rhythm Is A Drug ’ and the Wizard Of Oz 's ‘ Drowning In Your Blood Mix ’ which cleaned up at the band 's recent Heaven gig ( also backed with an ‘ Ahhhcapella ’ version which had them climbing the walls round at my place the other week ! ) . |
| 22 | Discovery will not be ordered of evidence prepared by someone who is not a party at the request of someone who is a defendant or potential defendant wanting to obtain legal advice , even though this amounts to the non-party sheltering behind the privilege of the defendant or potential defendant ( Lee v South West Thames Regional Health Authority [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 385 ) . |
| 23 | This amounts to the voluntary assumption of the risk of injury . |
| 24 | This leads to the general observation , that if the aim of resource-based learning or any other teaching-learning mode is to produce the independent autonomous learner , then the tendency of closely structured sequences or units of work must be towards eventual loosening of structure , the emergence of open-ended situations where the student can exercise his choice and decision-making in a meaningful way , and " learn how to learn by learning " . |
| 25 | In very bad cases this leads to the curious result that the distortion is more than 100 per cent . |
| 26 | This leads to the familiar sets of s , p , d , f , etc. orbitals in each shell . |
| 27 | This leads to the equivalent forms and |
| 28 | This leads to the following definition of economic earnings per share : subject to the restriction which implies that the present value of new external funds must sum to zero over the life of the firm , otherwise the firm would not effectively have a budget constraint . |
| 29 | This leads to the final area of resemblance to the great cities of the west , namely social structure . |
| 30 | This leads to the strange practice of encouraging counterproductive behaviour . |