Example sentences of "to this [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present chapter , a brief account of the historical background to contemporary consumption will be followed by a resumé of some of the approaches to this issue found in various disciplines , one of which , the tradition stemming from Veblen 's work on goods as the expression of social differentiation , will be discussed in more detail . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | He 's come to this country to work for the former England star , Mike Burton , who runs a local sports agency . |
| 4 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 5 | A follow-up to this exercise consists of grabbing hold of the balls of the feet with both hands , which increases the stretch . |
| 6 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 7 | Its rationale shifted but its purpose in one respect at least remained , and orthodox women to this day follow through the ritual of purification at the mikva every month and abstain from physical contact with their husbands during their times of bleeding and for seven days thereafter ( = two weeks every month ) . |
| 8 | He did this so effectively that it is to this day referred to as the Wallace Line . |
| 9 | Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident . |
| 10 | The Combined Staff ( OVS ) of the Joint High Command , the supreme military organ , to this day appears to be without rear services ( logistics ) directorates , an operations department and a transport department . |
| 11 | Note the several exemptions to this offence shown in supporting evidence at ( D ) . |
| 12 | An important exception to this principle exists in the case of buildings . |
| 13 | The other input to this gate derives from pressing the Bat switch S4 which feeds a high signal via the anti-bounce switch comprising IC4a , IC4b and diode D11 . |
| 14 | As nothing similar to this system exists in any European language this could be a particularly difficult thing to learn . |
| 15 | This is not always appreciated by those who point to this success compared to the systems in use at the larger institutions . |
| 16 | The answer to this question stems from the position of the Court of Appeal in the hierarchy of the courts ; it has an intermediate position . |
| 17 | The answer to this question depends on an understanding of the role that intention played in the interpretation of civil-law dispositions . |
| 18 | The answer to this question depends upon the amount of information that people have about what is happening in the economy . |
| 19 | One possible answer to this question comes from the application of psychological analysis to political studies . |
| 20 | The answer to this question lies in consistent teaching , seeking , surrender and testing . |
| 21 | The answer to this question lies in the complex problem of whether there is ever a role for retaining the gall bladder in the presence of stones , and whether it is the gall bladder that is the cause of the stones such that recurrence of stones is inevitable . |
| 22 | The answer to this question turned on the matter of knowledge . |
| 23 | The answer to this question needs to be couched as much in curriculum terms as in assessment terms . |
| 24 | Provided that the proprietor shall not be entitled to the protection of this subsection unless , at the time when the property in question was brought to the hotel , a copy of the notice set out in the schedule to this Act printed in plain type was conspicuously displayed in a place where it could conveniently be read by his guests at or near the reception office or desk or , where there is no reception office or desk , at or near the main entrance to the hotel . |
| 25 | There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great . |
| 26 | The challenge to this interpretation comes from the performance of the two other groups shown in the figure . |
| 27 | Secret The solution to this trick lies in the fact that , while the children can point to which lines they like or say which colour cards they like the best , you decide which cards to take away . |
| 28 | The answer to this problem lay in healthy recreation , which meant games , swimming , gymnastics , boxing , indoor games , and , in certain clubs , cycling and country walks . |
| 29 | Nevertheless I am convinced that where , as here , a party can satisfy the court that there is a genuine risk of prosecution for some offence which is not within the scope of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 ’ — e.g. conspiracy — ‘ or any similar statutory provision , it is not open to this court to substitute for the privilege against self-incrimination some other protection based on an order restricting the use of disclosed material . |
| 30 | Roland Barthes 's preface to this volume warns against the attempt made to ‘ naturalize ’ Robbe-Grillet 's fiction by adopting such a markedly humanist approach . |