Example sentences of "to this [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | The shopkeeper agreed to this after the rogue told him that he ( the rogue ) was Sir George Bullough . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then Jessamy made a desperate attempt to put an end to this before the tension between them reached an even more dangerous level . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | No objection could be taken to this when the offence actually took place in public ; now , of course , it need not . |
| 7 | To listen to this when the mind and body need to recover from effort is , to use a medical term , contra-indicated . |