Example sentences of "of [noun] to this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The intention of the clause is to reflect the increased likelihood of damage to this equipment under the strain of racing . |
| 3 | We have put forward a number of proposals to this effect in the political union intergovernmental conference . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And on 5 January 1201 Innocent addressed all the secular and ecclesiastical princes of Germany to this end . |
| 6 | Indeed , these relationships survived and are influencing credit-financing of industry to this day . |
| 7 | Minimally , the binding of protein to this element should alter the chromatin structure of the promoter . |
| 8 | However , there have as yet been no official state decrees , announcements or acts of recognition to this effect . |
| 9 | Equally , I would encourage schools to send contingents of youngsters to this City Hall . |
| 10 | A wide range of responses to this question was noted , and most of these involved combinations of two errors , i.e. not knowing the number of centimetres in a metre , and holding the view that " any number of millimetres is smaller than any number of centimetres " . |
| 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 | The reaction of parents to this knowledge varied from throwing the user out of the family home to paying for their habit until a place at a treatment centre could be found ( see Dorn and South 1987 ) . |
| 15 | THE number of visitors to this year 's Birmingham Motor Show topped 650,000 , a 45pc increase on the last show in 1990 , it was announced yesterday . |
| 16 | Whatever the specialised interests of visitors to this region , they can gain a reasonable general orientation of it before starting their particular excursions , by taking the 3 hour boat trip from Luzern to Fluelen or vice versa . |
| 17 | So why not add a touch of elegance to this winter 's social circuit by borrowing a proven classic idea from the male wardrobe ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 21 | They also found a tendency for Labour-controlled councils to spend more on education than Conservative councils but with a number of exceptions to this tendency . |
| 22 | The committee , how ever , sensibly note the long list of exceptions to this rule and insist that pre-recorded videos should be added . |
| 23 | Overall picture of Grant Commitments of Central Committee for the year and summary of applications to this Committee |
| 24 | If they would n't have made a scrap of slate it would have a world of difference to this strike . |
| 25 | He had come as a student of farming to this dairy , thinking he would be here only a short time . |
| 26 | And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | The role played by dietary fibre is of importance to this compartmentalisation because it binds bile acids . |
| 29 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 30 | 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 . |