Example sentences of "[vb -s] to this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Result : no more internationals for the Sant' Elia and a frigidity on footballing relations between Ireland and the continent that lingers to this day . |
| 2 | My wife , Ann , and I have experienced the sense of the terror that these unfortunate people must have felt , because it still lingers to this day in some of the small corries and glens in the hills above Tummel and Rannoch . |
| 3 | The general astonishment lingers to this day . |
| 4 | Happily , I was able to acquire the latter 's autograph myself shortly afterwards , but the disillusionment still lingers to this day ! |
| 5 | The soft blur of outline adds to this attraction . |
| 6 | Resurfacing of roads and yards outside buildings adds to this process . |
| 7 | The need for criminals to be secretive and not to advertise themselves adds to this uncertainty , and makes the study of crime more problematic than many other areas of sociological study . |
| 8 | The way the boys ( Finn + Tom ) also play around when setting Jim free , also adds to this effect . |
| 9 | Somewhere , deep down , his body lies to this day . |
| 10 | ‘ The weakness in our economy has reached dangerous levels when key companies like Fords , Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace , whose success really matters to this country , are shedding skilled workers in their thousands . ’ |
| 11 | It is well known that the UKCC has to this date been a bastion of conservatism , its appointments being made through the patronage of the secretary of state or the national boards . |
| 12 | In 1921 he scored 212 not out for the Ridley College XI against Hamilton CC to establish a schoolboy batting record for Canadian cricket which stands to this day . |
| 13 | The relationship between UK and EC competition policy approximates to this division of labour . |
| 14 | However , many , beginning with Emile Durkheim , believe that society approximates to this model . |
| 15 | According to Welsh legend Merlin still lives to this day on the mysterious Bardsey Island off the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales . |
| 16 | Cut out 3cm wide bias strips to this length and cover piping cord . |
| 17 | Alastair McIver looks to this month 's French Open — probably the toughest tournament in the world … |
| 18 | political leadership corresponds to this image ; |
| 19 | In the same letter to Katkov Dostoevsky also claimed that the murder was itself the merest peg ; ‘ I am only taking the accomplished fact ’ ; and he went on to assert that the human type ‘ which corresponds to this crime ’ was the creature of his imagination . |
| 20 | A constructivist would deny the existence of anything that corresponds to this conception of a phenomenal screen . |
| 21 | Although Francis Berry 's involvement with the cellar came purely from his friendship with Lutyens , this must not be taken as favouritism Berry 's was one of the oldest wine merchants in the business ( the company started trading in 1699 ) , and their first royal warrant was given to them by Edward VII , an honour the firm holds to this day . |
| 22 | Such a recitation may lead to the conclusion that one who consistently holds to this position ( as has been my experience ) lands outside the church . |
| 23 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 24 | We we shall , if this amendment , whatever happens to this amendment the other amendment will be fought separately and it will be debated separately . |
| 25 | ‘ I care too much about what happens to this family . |
| 26 | Mary refuses to this day to judge the veracity of Gary 's story , in view of his , by then , extensive record of crime and deceit . |
| 27 | IN WITNESS of which the Authors have set their respective hands and seals to this Agreement on the date first mentioned above . |
| 28 | God says to this jelly-heap of a man , ‘ The Lord is with you , brave and mighty man . ’ |
| 29 | The former White House counsel pled guilty and says to this day he feels guilty about that and his role in the Watergate scandal as a key Nixon defender . |
| 30 | And this goblin came along one day and says to this peedie fairy that like he was coming to get her in the morning . |