Example sentences of "this [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where this involves opposition to those who run the global system in their own interests it will naturally involve transnational practices in the economic , political and cultural-ideological spheres . |
| 2 | The curator of that museum told him that a book was being written that would transform everyone 's perception of Modigliani , and this led Martens to Noel Alexandre . |
| 3 | As an adolescent , this made sense to me . ’ |
| 4 | This made sense to Trent . |
| 5 | This lent money to banks , insurance companies , agricultural credit institutions and railroads . |
| 6 | This covers sales to the fields of business , industry , and education and training organisations , and many of the programmes sold are in the science documentary area . |
| 7 | This adds difficulties to literacy work . |
| 8 | This compared services to the elderly delivered by teams exemplifying some of the more prominent organizational types . |
| 9 | While this added £5.5m to distributable reserves , Graseby also felt compelled to make a £2.9m provision against the land and buildings revaluation reserve , given the depressed state of the UK property market . |
| 10 | If a hotel receptionist double-books a room does this give rise to criminal liability ? |
| 11 | This allows information to be specified which varies depending on the context of the message . |
| 12 | But even if one were to follow a couple for a whole day on repeated occasions , would this do justice to the full range , texture and history of the changing day-to-day relations between mother and child ? |
| 13 | This roused Nkrumah to a fresh effort on his behalf . |
| 14 | This limits conditions to those matters relating to the use and appearance of the land , e.g. considerations of visual amenity , access , tree planting and preservation and landscape in general , leaving conditions to be attached to the site licence to regulate the proper conduct of operations and day to day management of the site together with the protection of water , the environment and public health generally . |
| 15 | It seems logical to study unprepared bowel in an unsedated patient , but this limits studies to the distal colon or requires invasive and time consuming intestinal transtubation . |
| 16 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 17 | This shows consideration to the recipient . |
| 18 | This increases oxygen to the painful areas and at the same time removes the stagnant toxic wastes such as lactic and carbonic acids which build up in the muscle fibres . |
| 19 | This leads Richards to a position which seems close to the Formalist principle of defamiliarization , when he says , for instance ( 1970 : 254 ) , ‘ Nearly all good poetry is disconcerting ’ . |
| 20 | This leads Habermas to a very particular formulation of ideology : |
| 21 | This leads Engels to enthusiastically participate in rather technical debates such as the significance of kinship terminology , or the details of Australian Aboriginal society , details which Marx had largely left alone . |
| 22 | This includes damage to gates , hedges and fences . |
| 23 | Thus , although examining magistrates may conduct a fresh investigation and take a detached look at the police evidence , it is difficult to establish whether this takes place to any serious extent . |
| 24 | We have seen that the ubiquity of the mystical compulsion has made most religions cultivate a contemplative strain , even when this seems alien to the original spirit of the founder . |
| 25 | But again , he does not mean by this to reduce religion to emotion , though he is clear that emotion plays a part in it . |
| 26 | This applies limits to the things the supervisor can require the subordinate to do , and involves acceptance by the superior of limited deviations by the subordinate from the activities that are expected . |
| 27 | This draws attention to the eyes and leaves liner looking dark , without being hard and unflattering . |
| 28 | This draws attention to another aspect of human discourse processing : the ability to construct the referential representation of a text or sentence . |
| 29 | This draws attention to the formal strategies behind the opening scenes in stories and to the conventional basis of the ‘ doll biographies ’ that accompany the presentation of the major characters . |
| 30 | Rather more serious , although not , therefore , more grave , is the way in which this draws attention to the conventional rather than the real distinction between characters — especially tale-tellers — at different levels of a framed narrative . |