Example sentences of "this [vb -s] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This refers to wearable parts , wear pads , seals , bearings , brush gear , and the like . |
| 2 | This refers to all incidents , not just those involving offences against the person . |
| 3 | Presumably this refers to domestic difficulties . |
| 4 | This looks to dark greens remarkably like getting into bed with the enemy . |
| 5 | Dare any Conservative MEP explain how all this looks to political leaders on the Continent ? |
| 6 | Do n't worry if your compression joints leak slightly at first — this happens to professional plumbers too . |
| 7 | The median survival of the untreated patient with gastric cancer at presentation is four months and this increases to six months for those undergoing palliative resection . |
| 8 | One solution could be to double notes at the octave , but this leads to poor results , as doubled notes become too powerful and upset the chordal equilibrium . |
| 9 | The fact that we can put the edges in the working locations either way around allows us to exchange a pair twice , but with one edge flipped between exchanges , and this leads to all edges being in place but one pair being flipped . |
| 10 | This leads to negative feelings of the type ‘ it must be all my fault ’ . |
| 11 | This leads to two problems : |
| 12 | This leads to interpersonal relationships . |
| 13 | The theory of politics argues , on the supply side , that political parties , in bidding for support , end up by promising more than they can deliver and that , on the demand side , this leads to inflated expectations since the electorate have incentives to vote for increased services because they do not pay for them directly and because there may be little correlation between tax payments and government benefits . |
| 14 | This is because the skin responds to sunlight by thickening as a protection , and this leads to blocked follicles , beginning the spot-cycle all over again . |
| 15 | Failure to recognize this leads to circular arguments . |
| 16 | Although this leads to productive links with other agencies and services , it can not be in the best interests of the students . |
| 17 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 18 | This leads to dead spots , a breeding ground for anaerobic bacteria . |
| 19 | This leads to senior officers and their departments becoming increasingly secretive about their work and refusing to discuss it with others who might offer a better sense of judgement . |
| 20 | We only need to know what a procedure does , not how does it ; a wall can be built between the program that uses procedure T and the implementation of procedure T. This leads to modular programs . |
| 21 | This leads to formal examinations , followed by the writing of a thesis or dissertation upon satisfactory completion of which the degree is awarded . |
| 22 | This leads to random fluctuations in the numbers of alternative variants making up gene families and , as in gene conversion , one variant copy may replace all the others throughout a sexual population . |
| 23 | This leads to several traps : |
| 24 | This deteriorates to 11 miles per gallon at 105 miles an hour . ’ |
| 25 | This appears to different characters in different ways . |
| 26 | The United States baby can expect a life span of 70 years , and in the United Kingdom this rises to 71 years . |
| 27 | Well we yes , this applies to primary schools only . |
| 28 | If this applies to circumstantial difficulties ( it can be quite surprising to observe the ways in which sexual problems can be displaced on to financial problems , for instance , or those of child control ) it applies doubly to relationship problems . |
| 29 | From wherever the music and artists originate , their recordings have to be marketed , sold and promoted , and this applies to international superstars as well as emerging talent . |
| 30 | Section 101 of the Local Government Act , 1972 , makes it possible for one authority to appoint another as its agent to carry out its statutory duties — this applies to all functions except education , social services and emergency services . |