Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application for admission to this course is made directly to the University , not through UCCA . |
| 2 | Application for admission to this course should be made directly to the University ( see page 50 ) . |
| 3 | Among the rules and conditions for admission to this establishment a person had to have been resident in the parish for three years to have been receiving parish relief , and to be able to recite the Lord 's prayer and Apsotles ' Creed , also they shall not be an enemy of the Gospel or Established religion , nor a common swearer , adulterer , thief , picker , hedge breaker or drunkard . |
| 4 | As a result , one of the DCs was submitted for assessment to this person ; the other DC was agreed immediately since it affected no other package . |
| 5 | Various other lines of defence to this action were raised by Mr. Ashworth and I will now consider those in case I am wrong on what I regard as the central issue . |
| 6 | The intention of the clause is to reflect the increased likelihood of damage to this equipment under the strain of racing . |
| 7 | The renewed interest in using literary texts as a means of inculcating the kind of critical competence which could comprehend rather than simply dismiss contemporary culture in all its complex manifestations , was one kind of response to this crisis . |
| 8 | Indeed , these relationships survived and are influencing credit-financing of industry to this day . |
| 9 | Minimally , the binding of protein to this element should alter the chromatin structure of the promoter . |
| 10 | However , there have as yet been no official state decrees , announcements or acts of recognition to this effect . |
| 11 | The next major conclusion of relevance to this discussion is the PIMS finding that investment intensity , measured by investment divided by sales , is negatively correlated with ROI . |
| 12 | Since there are few books indexed under " swords " , the " history of swords " searcher may well be prepared to look through them all ; there are thousands of books under " history " , and only a minute proportion will contain anything of relevance to this searcher . |
| 13 | To take the particular case of relevance to this book , adjectives in English are , broadly , those words which can instantiate the P in both patterns of : Verbs can instantiate the latter position but not the former ; the lexical meaning expressed by a given verb must , exactly , undergo a change of syntactic class in order to do this , this usually being marked by an overt morphological change . |
| 14 | So why not add a touch of elegance to this winter 's social circuit by borrowing a proven classic idea from the male wardrobe ? |
| 15 | The vestments were more elaborately designed and embroidered , much of the work being undertaken by the Religious and ladies who could devote hours of leisure to this work . |
| 16 | In fact , although there is an element of truth to this position , the previous theoretical analysis is arguably of substantial assistance in commenting upon the current framework of the law . |
| 17 | If they would n't have made a scrap of slate it would have a world of difference to this strike . |
| 18 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 19 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 20 | The role played by dietary fibre is of importance to this compartmentalisation because it binds bile acids . |
| 21 | The intensional level structures which we are describing here are not rules of logical combination , constrained by what may or must be possible , given the type meaning of the words which are combined ; there is any amount of evidence to this effect if we simply allow our attention to rest on it . |
| 22 | It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S . |
| 23 | Occasionally , I add 3 drops of cedarwood to this blend which brings it down a little . |
| 24 | The major sources of recruitment to this subculture were the institutions of higher education . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | At one station a nice old Burmese woman brought us limes — her old arms scratched by the thorns — she asked no payment , it was her gift of love to this train load of refugees . |
| 29 | The assimilation of individualism to this version of anti-determinism presents the individualist with an intractable dilemma . |
| 30 | ‘ Neil has brought an awful lot of success to this club , and that must count for something , ’ he said . |