Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv] to [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In Chapter 14 we described why private individuals may be risk-averse , and this applies even to executives of large corporations .
2 This applies also to sons , even in situations where they are receiving significant financial or practical support from parents , as was the case for some of the interviewees in McKee 's ( 1987 ) study of unemployed men .
3 To some extent this applies also to whales and dolphins : some , such as white-sided and white-beaked dolphins , appear to enjoy a boat going at speed and will actively approach and ‘ bow-ride ’ for a time .
4 This applies equally to certificates , diplomas , degrees or honours awards .
5 This applies equally to members of module review groups and to those involved in making proposals for additions to the Catalogue .
6 This applies profoundly to pupils ' capacity for reflective thinking .
7 As we said in Chapter 3 , all surfaces have an energy , just because they are surfaces , and this applies both to solids and to liquids .
8 This applies particularly to students on long-term medication and those registered as disabled persons .
9 This applies particularly to students on long-term medication and those registered as disabled persons .
10 On other occasions when people feel tired , and again this applies particularly to night-workers , they know they should eat ( a rumbling stomach and hunger pangs tell them this ) and yet have no appetite .
11 It has frequently been observed that many classroom interactions do not conform to the rules of normal conversation , and this applies particularly to teachers ' use of questions ( e.g. , Barnes , 1969 ; Stubbs , 1976 ; Edwards , 1980 ) .
12 This applies particularly to discussions of retail versus manufacturer 's sales taxes ( see for example Friedlaender , 1967 ) .
13 This applies particularly to stones designed for young people but because they are still growing and changing themselves , the moral and psychological lessons must not be rigid or overstrained for these young readers .
14 This applies particularly to routines and repetitive work where the main operator limitation is not capacity or skill but stamina .
15 This applies particularly to traits , such as body size , which are themselves related to age .
16 There might be a faint possibility that it is being bound , although this applies more to periodicals than to textbooks .
17 This extends even to plants and , to recall Descartes , complex machines .
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