Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Looked forward to this day for so long , I have . |
| 3 | The document shows that , allowing for deficits carried forward to this year and other factors , and before this year 's savings , Bloomsbury has to save £8m to balance its budget , Lewisham £6.6m , Riverside £3.1m , Wandsworth £2.8m , Hampstead £1.4m , West Lambeth £1.5m , with the rest , bar Greenwich , facing forecast deficits of at least £1m . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In our inquiry into causation so far , we have not attended specifically to this fact of difference or asymmetry between causal items and their effects-the fact of causal priority as it is sometimes called . |
| 6 | It is arguable that the ratio decidendi of the case is limited solely to this principle , and can not be extended so as to include the neighbour principle . |
| 7 | Some space will be devoted later to this question , drawing on various lines of research and some current theories about the causes and underlying mechanisms of psychosis . |
| 8 | The Labour Party leadership has stuck rigidly to this line ever since . |
| 9 | Mr Collier also welcomed the recommendation that the British government review of nuclear power , scheduled for 1994 , should be brought forward to this year . |
| 10 | But it does seem to be again if we 're going back to Government guidance who are justifying extra policies to be brought forward to this alteration , it is a serious omission this alteration that there is no policy which deals with rural affordable housing . |
| 11 | It would have remained so to this day — but for the unforseen results of subsidence . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Why do you think that the stories have continued even to this day about the supposed link between the tax case and the gift of funds to build the National Gallery ? |
| 14 | A " The settlement at Munich was a triumph for British policy , which had worked precisely to this end ; not a triumph for Hitler , who had started with no such clear intention . |
| 15 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 16 | Even my Himalayan blunders have seemed trifling to me because I have kept strictly to this path … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is the first show of Cooper 's dedicated exclusively to this medium that I have ever seen and it impresses me as providing the ideal means for her to achieve that tenuous balance between coy decorativeness and crude primitiveness which she uses successfully to convey the psychological weight of a figure 's gesture . |