Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of knowledge of design then , knowledge which merely describes , attempts to objectify or to naturalise this kind of practice does so in asocial terms . |
| 2 | It might only postpone the day , but even one day is breathing space , and I fancy he 's sharp enough to make up a plausible story , once he knows the odds , or to persuade this witness to a different tale . |
| 3 | After quite a few practice turns , the last child , or to make this part of the game quicker the last two children , to sit down are out . |
| 4 | I think that to support this motion would be extremely unfortunate and would lead to potential disaster , not for the county council but indeed for the Highfields community . |
| 5 | It was wholly appropriate that to reach this landmark the jockey would have to produce one of his greatest efforts . |
| 6 | The other answer is that erm certainly some trials have been done with patients not being diagnosed by a computer , but by giving initial information like their age , their date of birth , erm where the pain is , etc. erm actually interacting themselves with the computer , and studies have shown curiously that patients actually prefer to use a computer rather than to give this information to a doctor . |
| 7 | I said that to understand this difficulty one has to think along certain lines . |
| 8 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 9 | What more can the dead ask than to have this wish granted ? |
| 10 | than to raise this document for doing . |
| 11 | When victimization followed the settlement — with union members left homeless by tied cottage evictions as well as without a job — the union had no option other than to take this treatment lying down . |
| 12 | While few would disagree with such a statement it is probable that to achieve this goal education spending per pupil should be increased in real terms during the period of a decline cohort of young people . |
| 13 | The Commission recognises that to achieve this objective it is necessary to reserve certain areas exclusively to the national postal administrations . |
| 14 | One night I had a vivid dream that to correct this error would bring us the wind . |
| 15 | Acting on the advice of the Greek astronomer Sosigenes , Caesar directed that to correct this anomaly the year 46 BC should be extended to 445 days . |
| 16 | Generous merchants are rare beasts in the literature of any age , and to see this merchant 's generosity as entirely foolish , or purely representative of commercial self-interest , is to make a severe assumption . |
| 17 | And to perform this role they need to have sufficient content to be used rather as premises in inferences . |
| 18 | as if to support this prediction , some newspapers underlined that American and French students were planning to take part , and noted that certain organisers were not English and therefore ‘ outside the consensus ’ ( ibid.:210–11 ) . |
| 19 | It is usual for a company to have a policy on its corporate image and to carry this image through to all its publicly available printed materials such as price lists , brochures and leaflets , visiting cards , compliments slips , envelopes and display boards and signs . |
| 20 | Chodorow suggests that the concentration of childcare in women 's hands brings daughters to identify symbiotically with their mothers , and to carry this interdependency and need for mutual mothering into future relationships , most especially with their own children . |
| 21 | People are frequently not aware that horses need companions ; and to support this idea they may even point out a horse in a paddock that appears to be grazing alone and away from all the other horses . |
| 22 | In any event , Acheson had realized that the US bargaining position with the French disappeared ‘ the moment we agree to give them aid ’ and , as if to confirm this predicament , a couple of days after Truman 's cabinet had decided unanimously in favour of recognition , the French were letting it be known that , although their intentions were indeed evolutionary , they could not ‘ afford to kindle unrealistic national appetites ’ . |
| 23 | In these units , students are encouraged to experience , at first hand , specific theatre practices , and to relate this work to the Core Studies work on the Theory and Practice of Modern Theatre . |
| 24 | The original research was designed to investigate the subsequent labour-market behaviour of a sample of steelworkers made redundant from the British Steel Corporation , Port Talbot , South Wales , and to relate this behaviour to the type of domestic organisation of their households and the character of their local social networks . |
| 25 | The government policy is to expand the total number of beds in the island to around 20,000 and to encourage this expansion to be outside Funchal , thereby opening up the wonderful countryside and expanding the economy of the many small villages . |
| 26 | In July 1981 , the GLC passed a resolution implementing a commitment in the election manifesto of the Labour Party to reduce fares charged by the London Transport Executive ( LTE ) by 25 per cent and to meet this cost ( some £69m ) issued a supplementary precept for rates of 6.1p in the £ to all London boroughs . |
| 27 | This will significantly increase the scale and scope of our activities and to meet this challenge , two new positions have been created within our Water Resources Strategic Planning team . |
| 28 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 29 | Therefore , and to counteract this possibility , a good sprinkling of Jeyes Fluid should be applied to the floor of the hutch after cleaning out and before the new straw and shavings are added . |
| 30 | FOR some time now , the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association 's executive has been seeking input for the updating of its Development Plan , and to serve this purpose , an all-day session of discussion groups has been arranged for Sunday , 21 March , at Strathclyde Park . |