Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthews entered the game at 3–4 as Colchester went to a one-setter system . |
| 2 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 3 | The revelation of Elvaston led to a topiary revival in the 1850s . |
| 4 | Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations . |
| 5 | The extreme case would be when the removal of NTBs led to a domestic monopoly becoming a perfectly competitive market . |
| 6 | The case for the removing of NTBs leading to a fundamental reconstruction of the economy of the EC may have been overestimated by the Cecchini Report . |
| 7 | In the 1880s , the expanding population of Liverpool led to an increased demand for water . |
| 8 | THE city of Liverpool rose to a great occasion for the Battle of the Atlantic commemorations . |
| 9 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 10 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 11 | In 1720 , for example , the Duke of Montrose remarked to a Scottish friend , that he had been advised by an official of the Treasury that a presentation to the office of land waiter of the customs at Port Glasgow had been submitted by the commissioners of customs in Scotland . |
| 12 | The sense of insecurity which affected the city-states of Mesopotamia led to a rudimentary interest in the history of social order . |
| 13 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 14 | EUROPEAN lightweight champion Jean-Baptiste Mendy of France cruised to a comfortable points win after a disappointing display by Britain 's Paul Burke in Paris last night . |
| 15 | Formalin fixation of neutrophils changed the pattern of PSC staining to a diffuse cytoplasmic speckled pattern with no nuclear staining . |
| 16 | North Shields has always been a fishing centre but the construction of the new fish quay in 1886 and the invention of steam trawling by the tug-boat firm of Purdies led to a big growth in activity in the late nineteenth century and the development of a distant water fleet . |
| 17 | Consultants appointed to study the implications for the container port of Felixstowe came to a similar conclusion but its owners , P&O , have nevertheless embarked on a £50m project to upgrade facilities by the end of the year . |
| 18 | The Prince and Princess of Wales came to a lonely hilltop in South Korea to honour the 900 men of the Gloucestershire Regiment who held back the Chinese Army pouring across the Imjin River in January 1951 . |
| 19 | And it 's not like Morrissey signed to a major label within ten seconds of leaving the Smiths , is it ? |
| 20 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 21 | Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction . |
| 22 | The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics . |
| 23 | He was very kind and it was a very different interview with Cizek compared to an English Professor such as Seaby , who might nod or grunt , but rarely say what he thought , either remarks favourable or unfavourable . |
| 24 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced yesterday , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp declines . |
| 25 | The numbers from Fujitsu Ltd , Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp , all of which announced last week , were every bit as bad as expected , with Fujitsu plunging to a consolidated net loss of $295m and the other two more comfortably diversified companies reporting sharp profit declines of 39.4% at $699.4m and 48% at $186m respectively . |
| 26 | The assassination of Kashmir 's leading Moslem cleric in mid-May led to a serious deterioration in the security situation in the Kashmir Valley after weeks of relative calm . |
| 27 | The last of eight special trains bringing 7,600 refugees from the West German embassy in Prague arrived to a warm welcome in Bavaria , while a train with more than 600 East Germans left Warsaw , also bound for West Germany . |
| 28 | Share prices in Tokyo fell to a six-year low yesterday , weakening the Japanese banking system and threatening world economic recovery . |
| 29 | The CIEFL 's privileged status and overall responsibility for ELT programmes in India leads to a certain amount of resentment from other institutions . |
| 30 | ‘ It would be no exaggeration to say that the future prosperity of the sheep industry in Wales depends to a large extent on satisfying the palates of diners in Paris , Rome and Madrid . ’ |