Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the state in the early days of the administration of justice led to a remarkable form of attempted committal to prison . |
| 2 | By clearing a quadrat of all plants and then checking it periodically , the succession of plants leading to a mature sustainable ‘ climax ’ vegetation could be observed . |
| 3 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 4 | The loss of amenities caused to an elderly person as a result of his injuries can be more severe precisely because he is old and has already suffered some impairment of his activities on that account . |
| 5 | By the time this issue of the magazine is published the exhibition of prints , Impressive Women , at the London Print Workshop , will have finished and the supportive programme of talks come to a close . |
| 6 | For Leavis the study of literature led to a growth of intelligence and sensibility . |
| 7 | He hanged himself from a piece of sheet attached to a ventilation grille . |
| 8 | All you need for a marker is a Fishing Gazette pike bung or a piece of polystyrene tied to a stone with a length of line about 12 inches longer than the depth of swim . |
| 9 | The fisherman reached the shore unharmed and took a piece of tentacle to show to a local naturalist called Moses Harvey . |
| 10 | The hardware dongle plugs into your parallel printer port ( your printer can remain attached ) and is attached to a piece of wire leading to a small silver sensor . |
| 11 | The following is issued for the guidance of persons attending to a weighing carried out on a weighbridge made available for use by the public and for which a charge is made : — |
| 12 | Definition : Judging by the acres of print devoted to a definition of pain , one suspects both an obsession and a difficulty . |
| 13 | Rather than expressing the individual reality of the speaker who happens to utter them , these ‘ personal ’ aspects of language testify to a certain self-consciousness or reflexivity within language itself . |
| 14 | Two officers whose term of secondment came to an end in the course of the year were replaced by promotions from within the Library 's staff , and it is intended that this pattern should continue when the remaining officer returns to the Scottish Office in due course . |
| 15 | The sense of insecurity which affected the city-states of Mesopotamia led to a rudimentary interest in the history of social order . |
| 16 | A recent study showed that polluted mine water would start to flow into the River Wear within three months of pumping coming to a stop . |
| 17 | Napoli 's proceeds from months of negotiations amounted to a paltry $6,500 . |
| 18 | The government on Dec. 15 won by 309 votes to 256 with one abstention a vote of confidence attached to a bill on regional aid to the south . |
| 19 | It may or may not be true that positive control of development , the compelling of development to conform to a particular plan determined by the state , is unattainable without nationalisation . |
| 20 | None the less , the enthusiasm aroused by the report and the wide support it achieved among Labour politicians , sections of the Conservative Party and a broad spectrum of opinion led to a series of government White Papers in 1944 organised by the Minister of Reconstruction , Lord Woolton . |
| 21 | Of course , it may be the case that monitoring of costs compared to an ideal is in practice very much more difficult than monitoring prices relating to costs . |
| 22 | Media coverage of issues relating to a healthy lifestyle is certainly extensive , but can be confusing . |
| 23 | The category of underemployment refers to an area of work that includes street selling , shoe-shining , refuse collecting for sale , prostitution and many other activities which offer no security and bring in very meagre earnings . |
| 24 | On the other hand , flexibility can operate to the disadvantage of these pupils if inappropriate compassion on the part of teachers leads to a lowering of expectations , and consequently of standards , for the individual child . |
| 25 | Increasing failure to grow enough food on the part of farmers leads to a decline in productivity through a lack of energy and malnutrition particularly at times of peak labour demand , and an attempt to substitute less soil-conserving crop rotations . |
| 26 | Tradition has it that the infliction was brought to the village in a parcel of clothing sent to a local family , the Beevers , one of whose members had died from the plague in London . |
| 27 | Fill large gaps between boards with strips of wood cut to a wedge-shape . |
| 28 | During the first three years , very little time was spent on such whole-school issues as management and curriculum leadership , but in 1988 an apparent change of priorities led to a dramatic increase in provision in this area from an average of 102 teacher-days a year to a somewhat startling 1,280 . |
| 29 | We can not , however , leave the discussion with the ostensibly greater freedom of Protestants to subscribe to a new cosmology , because there are stronger claims in the literature for a parallel between scientific and religious reform . |
| 30 | The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus . |