Example sentences of "to this day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that Masha was unable to enjoy herself — she had a fine sense of humour and loved to sing , which she could do well , serenading the songs of her homeland — lullabies and airs which still resonate in her son 's head to this day . |
| 2 | Some are to this day . |
| 3 | It is true to this day in England that , if one has learning , one must wear it so lightly that it is unnoticeable . |
| 4 | where it is seen to this day |
| 5 | To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis . |
| 6 | Serrano 's Piss Christ ( which he termed ‘ a protest against the commercial invasion of sacred images ’ ) brought an outburst which continues to this day . |
| 7 | The Housing Associations or Public Utility Societies took many forms and have prospered to this day . |
| 8 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |
| 9 | There reigned at No. 10 — and reigns no doubt to this day — the conviction that the press relations people can ‘ fix it ’ the way they are instructed to . |
| 10 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 11 | The Chicago Civil Aviation Conference of 1944 is rarely discussed today , but it established the forms and organizations that have governed postwar civil aviation to this day . |
| 12 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 13 | Strange , to this day I have never met a priest who was n't afraid to die . |
| 14 | This was the point which was most politically explosive , and this was the point which has been the cause of the greatest revilement of the book to this day . |
| 15 | I had not , I have not to this day , the remotest notion of what they were all doing . |
| 16 | Rangers ' supporters replied in kind , and so the blood feud went on and on — and continues to this day . |
| 17 | But to this day I have nightmares in which I have to go back to school , and I 'm so relieved to wake up and find that it was only a dream . |
| 18 | Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day . |
| 19 | The tribal areas retain their status — which means that to this day there is no law and no democracy . |
| 20 | Games were organised as curtain-raisers before major soccer matches , and experts provided the crowd with a running commentary of the action on the Tannoy system , a habit preserved to this day . |
| 21 | Result : no more internationals for the Sant' Elia and a frigidity on footballing relations between Ireland and the continent that lingers to this day . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember to this day coming out after tea at Jo'burg , 1948-49 , going down on to the ground with Len ; vast crowd , and this fellow comes out of it and says ‘ only 30 more for the record , boys ’ . |
| 23 | To this day the spot is known as ‘ The Major 's Leap ’ . |
| 24 | The Ley eventually reverted to the Garnstone estate and has long been a farmhouse , which it remains to this day . |
| 25 | Every Defence White Paper to this day has stressed the importance the British Government attaches to the achievement of a comprehensive nuclear and conventional force disarmament package as the only alternative to nuclear deterrence . |
| 26 | The strength of the critics ’ arguments was neutralized to some extent by Macmillan 's determination to seek both nuclear and conventional disarmament with the twin-track approach , which has remained valid to this day : maintaining the potency of the deterrent while , at the same time , seeking genuine arms limitation , if not disarmament . |
| 27 | To this day the holding company owns a 25.23% blocking minority in Daimler . |
| 28 | To this day the world sees him that way . |
| 29 | And they must do it without letting off any light , or the sky would be aglow with the death throes of neutrinos to this day . |
| 30 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |