Example sentences of "this [verb] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curator of that museum told him that a book was being written that would transform everyone 's perception of Modigliani , and this led Martens to Noel Alexandre . |
| 2 | This made sense to Trent . |
| 3 | This lent money to banks , insurance companies , agricultural credit institutions and railroads . |
| 4 | This adds difficulties to literacy work . |
| 5 | This includes damage to gates , hedges and fences . |
| 6 | But again , he does not mean by this to reduce religion to emotion , though he is clear that emotion plays a part in it . |
| 7 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 8 | This entitles Newco to repayments of tax credits attaching to the dividends , deriving from Target 's liability to pay ACT in respect of such dividends . |
| 9 | This restores control to VMS . |
| 10 | This gave rise to speculation that Suchard planned to use these funds to launch another takeover bid , possibly for Cadbury Schweppes . |
| 11 | There were those who considered it to be a purely defensive step , and this gave rise to rumour . |
| 12 | This gave rise to War Communism . |
| 13 | This gives rise to difficulties in serving an abatement or prohibition notice , as it is not possible to specify any works to abate the odour , and yet a notice which merely requires the recipient to take steps to abate the odour , is unlikely to achieve the desired effect . |
| 14 | This gives rise to litters in which there are some stumpies ( with no tails at all ) , some rumpy-risers ( with a knob of a tail ) , some stumpies or stubbies ( with very short tails ) and some longies ( with almost full-length tails ) . |
| 15 | Half of the time this gives rise to tritium and a proton , and ( almost ) the rest of the time gives helium-3 and a neutron . |
| 16 | ( This lends weight to McCullough 's argument , referred to earlier . ) |
| 17 | This runs counter to Mason 's suggestion that more unskilled workers attended between the wars . |
| 18 | This provides gateways to services from operators , including British Telecommunications Plc and Mercury Communications Ltd Virtual Private Network services . |
| 19 | This provides access to funds through dollar cheques , provides interest on uninvested cash and also offers low interest loans to buy additional stocks to add to any marginal holdings . |
| 20 | And this makes sense to Freud , because he believes that people believe in , in religion because of the gratifications it gives them . |