Example sentences of "this [vb -s] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This owes much to McKeown and Lowe who suggested that socioeconomic and environmental circumstances are the prime determinants of longevity . |
| 2 | This applies notably to cowrie shells which partly for this reason have maintained their status down to the ethnographic present in many parts of the world . |
| 3 | In Chapter 14 we described why private individuals may be risk-averse , and this applies even to executives of large corporations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This applies equally to certificates , diplomas , degrees or honours awards . |
| 7 | This applies equally to members of module review groups and to those involved in making proposals for additions to the Catalogue . |
| 8 | This applies equally to carving , but that 's still not easy and it certainly is n't fast . |
| 9 | This applies equally to light switches and electric sockets . |
| 10 | This applies profoundly to pupils ' capacity for reflective thinking . |
| 11 | This applies both to production and to labour , which is reorganized both socially ( see Braver man , 1974 ) and spatially . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This applies both to surface- and ground-water ( bore-hole ) supplies , but not , of course , to town water . |
| 14 | This applies particularly to students on long-term medication and those registered as disabled persons . |
| 15 | This applies particularly to students on long-term medication and those registered as disabled persons . |
| 16 | This applies particularly to masturbation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is certainly true that some of the processes associated with standardization ( on which see Haugen , 1972 ; Leith , 1980 ; J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) were well under way around 1600 ( elaboration of function , use of a supra-regional writing system ) , but it looks as if some of them were still at the stage of being localized developments associated with the establishment of consensus on local norms , and this applies particularly to pronunciation , which is the level of language that is least uniform . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | This applies particularly to discussions of retail versus manufacturer 's sales taxes ( see for example Friedlaender , 1967 ) . |
| 21 | This applies particularly to class sizes which tend to vary dramatically between urban ( high ) and deep rural ( low and uneven ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This applies particularly to lowland rivers of gentle gradient , but for reconnaissance work in mountain areas , where the gradients are steep and the breaks of slope marked , a less accurate levelling instrument , such as the Abney level , may be used . |
| 24 | This applies particularly to routines and repetitive work where the main operator limitation is not capacity or skill but stamina . |
| 25 | This applies particularly to traits , such as body size , which are themselves related to age . |
| 26 | There might be a faint possibility that it is being bound , although this applies more to periodicals than to textbooks . |
| 27 | There is still the limitation however that this relates only to investment trust savings schemes , such that investment trusts can not advertise their shares directly . |
| 28 | This extends even to plants and , to recall Descartes , complex machines . |
| 29 | It is important that all patients attending a clinic have confidence in the promised confidentiality , and that they can rest assured that this extends even to family relationships . |