Example sentences of "to this [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | There is no objection to this but the tenant should ensure that the person so appointed is suitably qualified to enable him to carry out his functions in a proper and responsible manner . |
| 3 | Michael did not reply to this but the Leader said : ‘ What if it is true ? ’ |
| 4 | But there was a quite large terraced space between , and it was up to this that the enemy van , with the Leopard standard , wound its way . |
| 5 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 6 | The shopkeeper agreed to this after the rogue told him that he ( the rogue ) was Sir George Bullough . |
| 7 | It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake . |
| 8 | Then Jessamy made a desperate attempt to put an end to this before the tension between them reached an even more dangerous level . |
| 9 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 10 | The miners ' strike drew attention to the social costs of pit closures in mining villages , but the government case gave barely any recognition to this and no connection was made with regional policy . |
| 11 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 12 | After-care was considered necessary in order to ease the employer-employee relationship and because it added ‘ the personal touch which is the breadth of life to this and every form of charitable effort ’ . |
| 13 | One response to this and the funding crisis in the early 1980s was to introduce charges for the home help service , up to a weekly maximum , which varied from authority to authority , but was in the region of £2 . |
| 14 | No objection could be taken to this when the offence actually took place in public ; now , of course , it need not . |
| 15 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |