Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] have [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Sussex gentry who had gone to war for religion had to adjust to the need to maintain stability , many of the Puritan clergy could and would not . |
| 2 | The collapse of communism had led to the arrest of several RAF members in mid-1990 [ see p. 38476 ] , and the RAF hard core was thought to number only 20-30 people . |
| 3 | It is at its most active in urban areas such as my constituency , the metropolitan city of Leeds , and other big cities such as Newcastle , Bradford and Manchester , whose Members of Parliament have contributed to the debate . |
| 4 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , an almost entirely supine parliamentary opposition has confirmed that the political culture which is supposed to ensure our much-vaunted freedom of opinion has stagnated to the point of inertia . |
| 6 | In practice this aura of professionalism has worked to the exclusion of the many who have no such education and training . |
| 7 | Sometimes the investigation of nature has sunk to the bottom in a stratification of priorities . |
| 8 | In El Salvador and Guatemala , the disruptions of war have added to the problems . |
| 9 | So too an answer is needed to the question of whether the failure to manage the transfer of information and the joint planning of a continuous four-year scheme between two different phases and organizations of education has led to the achievement of less than was hoped for , regardless of the fact that it has been very heavily funded . |
| 10 | But gradually her horror of water had extended to the bath and shower in her own home . |
| 11 | His own horror of self-revelation has led to the assumption that there are such revelations to be made . |
| 12 | This great plate — adorned with a few ‘ hot spots ’ , where plumes of magma have spurted to the surface randomly to form such agglomerations of islands as the Hawaiian chain , the Marquesas , the Tuamotos , the Tubuais and that tiny British possession the Pitcairn group — is almost universally deep , has a floor covered with siliceous oozes and red clays and is dotted with millions of volcanic abyssal hills discovered by the trailing of arrays of echo-sounders . |
| 13 | Coercion is not needed today for most people in these areas , for the evolution of mankind has led to the internalization of these prohibitions ; the super-ego , which develops in most children in modern societies , controls these . |
| 14 | By agreeing to their inclusion in the Bill the Secretary of State has responded to the anxieties of my hon. Friends the Members for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) and for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) , and of South Glamorgan county council , Cardiff city council and many other bodies . |
| 15 | The head of science had come to the library committee with a prior interest in language and science . |
| 16 | Recent insights into the pharmacology and component properties of sulphasalazine have led to the development of a new generation of drugs based on mesalazine ( 5-aminosalicylic acid , 5-ASA ) . |
| 17 | It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects . |
| 18 | Lisa had flung out through the door without so much as a glance at him , and on legs made of rubber had fled to the lift . |
| 19 | However more recently the focus of interest has shifted to the medium and smaller sized urban centres , where historic structures and environmental attractiveness have also been threatened by traffic problems . |
| 20 | Such combines are still common , in various forms , but further problems of capitalization , marketing and integration of production have led to the widespread appearance of the conglomerate , within which ownership and control of the means of cultural production become a sector within the wider ownership and control of a much wider ( non-cultural ) productive and financial area . |
| 21 | This vast product-line combined with an ability to deliver quickly from stock has led to the supplying of thousands of satisfied professionals in research institutes , laboratories and chemical process industries worldwide . |
| 22 | The interest in question has to relate to the land or building covered by the application so that , for example , an application for a change of use for a third floor does not require notice to be served on anyone with an interest in any of the other floors . |
| 23 | Since the mid-1970s the recessionary shake-out in manufacturing has led to the externalization of various corporate services , previously provided ‘ in-house ’ . |
| 24 | These meetings offer the opportunity for discussion , exchange of experience and best practice and in turn have contributed to the rationale of some of the recommendations currently being considered by the SCOTVEC Catering Review Group . |
| 25 | The pressures to publish in science have led to the publication of series of fragmentary reports on research ( Abelson 1 ) and to the production of new journals to contain such reports , which have been termed the ‘ least publishable units ’ . |
| 26 | The pressures to publish in science have led to the publication of series of fragmentary reports on research ( Abelson ) and to the production of new journals to contain such reports , which have been termed the ‘ least publishable units ’ . |
| 27 | By 1987 the new spirit of collaboration on defence had developed to the extent where the Netherlands could suggest that WEU was an appropriate body that could , for the first time , seek a common European position on a non-European issue , the long-running war between Iran and Iraq and the deepening Persian Gulf crisis . |
| 28 | She continued to go at night for his fish and chips , and on return had to submit to the smelling of her breath . |
| 29 | DURING the four decades that have followed the US Supreme Court 's landmark Roe vs Wade decision , the debate over abortion has intensified to the point of ferocity , culminating recently in the murder of an obstetrician . |
| 30 | It seemed as if one of the most respected women on television had succumbed to the lure of glitzy fame . |