Example sentences of "this [verb] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this make a difference to modern man 's divorce ? |
| 2 | Samuel Whitbread had extracted a fine of £5 from a malefactor who had been brought up before him in his magistrate 's court ; this became a donation to the infirmary . |
| 3 | This constitutes a penalty to the deserting management by depriving them of any uplift in the market value , and gives comfort to the investors about the level of commitment of the managers . |
| 4 | This involves a visit to one of three major aero clubs . |
| 5 | The surface may be bowed into a curve by tensioning the two cross-spars and , while this contributes a lot to stability , the Rokkaku is still a single line fighting kite . |
| 6 | Questions like these in the consultant 's mind led to fanning a small positive spark in seemingly totally negative behaviour , and this made a difference to Mr E both in relation to his colleagues in the group , and as Dave 's teacher to whom a way out of a vicious circle of perpetual defeat could in this way be illustrated , again without explicitly referring to the analogy of the situation . |
| 7 | This made a difference to the boy 's view of the situation . |
| 8 | If sterling were at higher interest rates than the US$ , then clearly this represents a cost to the bank in that it has foregone a return in sterling better than that available in US$ , so that exchange risk can be hedged in the way described . |
| 9 | Ocean-mining companies would be premature in thinking that this offers a solution to their problems . |
| 10 | This provided a boost to bigger-ticket purchases . |
| 11 | This causes an hazard to the pedestrians . |
| 12 | This involved an attempt to accurately define the organisational and administrative needs of business over the next decade and , within this context , to draw up a taxonomy of secretarial skills suitable for this environment . |
| 13 | However extreme this view , there was some truth in the assertion that ‘ the changes in methods of production are rapid ’ , and this posed a threat to the employment prospects of both skilled and unskilled labour . |
| 14 | Does this show a desire to be involved in the performance ? |
| 15 | This allows a comparison to be made between markets in countries that are at a different stage in their development , but it is assumed that their development will follow a similar pattern . |
| 16 | This encouraged an end to labour force participation and established the two arbitrary ages as customary retirement ages . |
| 17 | There are five membership categories , the cheapest being a ‘ follower ’ at £10 per year and this includes a subscription to ‘ Lifewatch ’ magazine , an entrance ticket to London Zoo , additional money-off entrance vouchers , a car sticker and a lapel badge . |
| 18 | This allowed a comparison to be made between matriculated and non matriculated students and between those students with and without recent previous study experience . |
| 19 | This allowed an evaluation to be made of the possible effect pre-entry study on performance . |
| 20 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 21 | This requires a tick to be placed in the box labelled Restore to Table |
| 22 | This requires a tick to be placed in the box labelled Bring to Working-Set . |
| 23 | This requires a viewer to ‘ unpack ’ the image and reconstitute the real-life situation out of which it has been found . |
| 24 | Normally this requires a visit to the File Manager . |
| 25 | Coupled with the neglect of diagnosis and assessment in the ‘ needs ’ part of the programme , this constituted an approach to children 's learning which was too generalized and unfocused to have any significant impact . |
| 26 | This followed a visit to Italy on March 8-18 by Economy Minister Nechayev . |
| 27 | This creates an exception to both : ( 1 ) the general practice that experts ' decisions are final : see 8.8 ; and ( 2 ) the less well-established principle that certifiers owe no duty of care to contractors : see 7.4.2. introduced a further tier of dispute resolution by interposing optional alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ) between the decision of the engineer and arbitration . |
| 28 | Prima facie , this raised a liability to stamp duty under s57 of the Stamp Act 1891 according to the value of the debt assumed by the transferee . |
| 29 | Finally , the LEA agreed procedures for monitoring and reviewing the entire programme , and this included an invitation to the University of Leeds to undertake an independent evaluation . |
| 30 | For Mr Grade , this meant a return to the sports desk at the Daily Mirror where he started his career as a trainee football writer in 1960 , aged 17 . |