Example sentences of "[adv] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 3 | Sadly , Jimmy died in 1989 , but all of the achievements owe much to this dear , departed , friend . |
| 4 | She fell silent , unable to speak openly — especially to this man — of the torment writhing within her . |
| 5 | American and European children had been known to respond well enough to this form of words and schooled Wolof children did so too . |
| 6 | This process takes place just as much in the context of legislating as in connection with other procedures which appear to lend themselves more obviously to this end . |
| 7 | He asked those interested or intrigued by the idea to pray as to whether God might be calling them personally to this work . |
| 8 | By the late 1930s it had been converted to a dwelling and remains so to this day . |
| 9 | It would have remained so to this day — but for the unforseen results of subsidence . |
| 10 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 11 | Second , it ignores the other social reality , that many pupils come from homes in which there is no stable and married family life and so will not be able to relate easily to this concept . |
| 12 | You 're not new to the area though , just to this bit ? |
| 13 | It is not , therefore , unexpected that governments since the last war in this country have confined their efforts largely to this aspect of equality . |
| 14 | Neil Kinnock made a very good , warm , amusing and emotional speech whose merits applied exactly to this venue . |
| 15 | We can date the clearance of stable upland environments such as the chalklands of Wessex and Yorkshire and the Jurassic limestones of the Cotswolds and elsewhere to this period . |
| 16 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 17 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 18 | According to Hulme and Blyth ( 1984 ) , reclaimed peatland in Harris and Lewis is characterised by pastures with Trifolium repens , Holcus lanatus , Agrostis canina and Anthoxanthum , which comes close to this sub-community . |
| 19 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 20 | Apparently , whenever she 'd gone close to this man he 'd shooed her away , recoiling from her and muttering , ‘ Pork , pork , pork , VD , VD , white woman , white woman . ’ |
| 21 | She had to keep close to this man even if it meant sharing his bed . |
| 22 | The inhabitants of Northern Nigeria , however , though coming close to this standard , had with few exceptions to be cured of a certain lack of forthrightness . |
| 23 | There are some yachts which come close to this spec : the FF boats of Holland ( only 30 and 35ft ) ; the X119 , but I do n't think this is suitable for two and its bulb keel with forward protrusion seems to me to be dangerous in our net-infested waters ; the Dehler db36 is interesting , though ugly and over-designed . |
| 24 | It also rejected the Crown 's argument that the issue of consent should be left to the jury — in the same way as the question of dishonesty is left to them in theft cases — but its actual decision comes fairly close to this position . |
| 25 | It is worth making an important demand early on in the negotiations and sticking close to this position thus making the other party have to work hard to squeeze concessions out of you . |
| 26 | How water was raised from the well can only be speculated but close to this spot stood an old Elizabethan house , which was demolished to make way for the flats . |
| 27 | One exceptional fossil site close to this age exists which provides far more detailed information about the bodies of animals than can come from mere shells . |
| 28 | The only group to have come close to this sort of vetting of its members is the charity Action for Victims of Medical Accidents ( AVMA ) . |
| 29 | If the dykers can be encouraged to begin to build an extension to the west of the present entrance off Avenue Q , their small tent can also be relocated close to this section . |
| 30 | No other poet in the century comes close to this representation . |