Example sentences of "this [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 2 | All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age . |
| 3 | This goes to the six charities chosen by the Princess Royal , the Duke and Duchess of Kent , Prince Edward , and Princess Alexandra the Hon. |
| 4 | This goes to the Inland Revenue Accounts Office along with the NI contributions and tax deducted in the previous month . |
| 5 | Pedulla 's stated aim is to produce an instrument which will sound ‘ alive ’ even at flat tone settings , and credit for this goes to the Bartolini powerhouses and Pedulla 's tone-shaping circuitry . |
| 6 | I resume my explanation of the Bill , and this goes to the very heart of the issues raised by the two hon. Gentlemen . |
| 7 | Charles I and his Parliament quarrelled , and this led to the Civil War of the 1640s which ended with the defeat and execution of the King and , in 1649 , the establishment of a republic . |
| 8 | This led to the second phase of the emergence of headhunting , in which management consultants , and with them accountancy firms , developed their own in-house headhunting functions . |
| 9 | This led to the usual ‘ drinking bout … |
| 10 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 11 | This led to the early discovery of soldering . |
| 12 | This led to the highest possible in Rugby League other than actually playing for a good team : I began to be invited to games by the committee . |
| 13 | This led to the partial abandonment of physical controls and a move towards financial disciplines for the nationalised industries . |
| 14 | This led to the everyday use of microphones which were mounted on the end of a short boom extending from one of the ear-pieces of the pilot 's radio headset to a position in front of his mouth . |
| 15 | This led to the Little Vestry where she would hang up her coat and to the kitchen where she would wash out the vases and arrange the fresh flowers . |
| 16 | This led to the Sexual Offences ( Amendment ) Act in 1976 . |
| 17 | This led to the rapid growth of the private courier industry , with substantial benefits to business users . |
| 18 | The division was about four men to one woman , and this led to the inevitable result , in those days before The Pill — a baby boom . |
| 19 | Therefore the flower is ultimately linked to the earth itself , which is thought of as part of a ‘ sphere ’ — this refers to the Ptolemaic system , already out of date in the seventeenth century . |
| 20 | This applied to the present conflict as well as to the Israeli conflict with the Arab peoples . |
| 21 | This points to the second record that randomized to the home address . |
| 22 | This points to the real worry about 1991 : not that it will not be good enough , but that it will be too good . |
| 23 | Surely , all of this points to the urgent need to define a common strategy and a corporate working agenda . |
| 24 | Easthope concedes , ‘ Spoken performance of pentameter is accordingly open to variation in a way accentual verse is not ’ , and this points to the massive lacuna at the heart of his book . |
| 25 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly this contributed to the Labour electoral victory in 1945 and to the increased participation of middle-class people in the work of the Labour Party . |
| 27 | But few of their efforts in the field of development were blessed with success , and this contributed to the erroneous impression that nothing was attempted . |
| 28 | This contributed to the notable growth in trade union membership from 1902 and the industrial unrest of 1910 to 1914 . |
| 29 | This adds to the substantial shareholding MDH bought in 1991 . |
| 30 | ( This adds to the dramatic tension . ) |