Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 2 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 3 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 4 | Britain has only agreed to a package of £65 billion a year . |
| 5 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 6 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) has concluded that the withdrawal of market participants has not led to a reduction in the quality of service or reduced liquidity or competitiveness in the market . |
| 7 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 8 | Similarly , a recent reduction in the West German prison population has not led to an increase in major crime or made the streets less safe ( Feest , 1999 ) . |
| 9 | Does the Minister understand that the arrogance and insensitivity of his hon. Friend , who has not agreed to a meeting for about four months now , has been noted not just by Mr. Johnston but by every farmer in the north-east of Scotland ? |
| 10 | But Enterprise Neptune has not drawn to an end with the successful completion of its Silver Jubilee year . |
| 11 | This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence . |
| 12 | The latest security report says installing cameras has finally led to a fall in car theft , but overall hospital crime rose 12.5% last year . |
| 13 | A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million . |
| 14 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 15 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 16 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 17 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 18 | Whatever side is taken in this ongoing debate , however , it appears that knowledge of the ill effects of tobacco has already led to a modification in smoking behaviour among older men , particularly those in non-manual employment . |
| 19 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 20 | Woman to Woman was produced as both an exhibition and a book , it has already toured to a number of venue throughout the UK and is still available for hire through The Royal Photographic Society in Bath . |
| 21 | Over the past five years , the run life of ESPs supplied by Reda for Forties Echo has gradually increased to an average of 250 days . |
| 22 | It is common ground between the plaintiffs and the ombudsman that the only relevant matter of complaint is that part of paragraph 3 of Part II to Schedule 12 , which refers to the grant or refusal to grant further advances to a borrowing member . |
| 23 | Even after your job has clearly come to an end , you need to beware of breaking obligations that remain legally binding upon you , such as the duty not to disclose trade secrets . |
| 24 | The age of those mighty , entrepreneurial artistic directors has probably come to an end . |
| 25 | West Germany : ‘ the nuclear construction programme of the German utilities has practically come to an end for the time being . ’ |
| 26 | The increasing productivity of agriculture through the use of modern industrial methods has also led to a decline in traditional job opportunities in the countryside , and the government is keen to encourage more general diversification in the rural economy . |
| 27 | The crisis of resources in public education has also brought to a head questions about the relevance of the present curriculum , which has been criticized as too academic and élitist , and the rigidity of the education system generally . |
| 28 | The recent departure of manager Liam Brady has also brought to a head a bitter boardroom battle which threatens to tear the club apart . |
| 29 | It was at St John 's College , Cambridge , which he entered in the summer of 1784 that matters really came to a head , however . |
| 30 | The economic recession of the '70s and '80s has inevitably led to a fall in the recruitment and training of skilled operatives , coupled with a loss of skilled tradesmen to other , less depressed industries . |