Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this refers to a Christian 's relationships with other Christians , it is legitimate to extend Paul 's principles to all human relationships . |
| 2 | Although this amounts to a transformation of theory and its object it is not clear in what sense it is an epistemological break . |
| 3 | Fifteenth-century agriculture , as we have seen ( Ch.2 ) , gave the peasantry opportunities to consolidate their holdings , and it may well be that this led to a decline in the traditional co-operative cultivation of the open-field communities , as men purchased their own draught animals and ploughs . |
| 4 | Best argues that in the early 1920s there was a conversion of land from rural to urban uses at a rate of 9,100 ha per annum , but that this increased to a level of around 21,000 ha during the 1930s . |
| 5 | Customs may argue that this amounts to a landlord 's repairing lease . |
| 6 | Pomponius is quite clear that this amounts to a condition , and the consequence of that is that the legacy does not vest and transmission is not possible until the relevant age has been reached . |
| 7 | However , there is no evidence that this leads to a delinking of spot and futures prices . |
| 8 | I think the issue as you rightly as Miss rightly put it , is the normal vacancy rate and is there any reason to suppose as the County Council must be supposing , that this shrinks to a degree . |
| 9 | Keith was impressed with the integrity of the conditions at Newark and was more than happy to come to a loan agreement . |
| 10 | The trade union officials involved in the agreements were fully aware of their two-sided nature , and some admitted to a sense of bad conscience at seeing the regular dismissal of " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 11 | But by the early 1960s planners were being charged with an over-obsession with neatly packaged land parcels , and this came to a head with Jane Jacobs ( 1961 ) , an American journalist married to an architect , living in New York . |
| 12 | More highly educated employees were not more productive than others and this applied to a variety of employees — factory workers , white collar workers , and managers . |
| 13 | However , securing organizational change and a move to more entrepreneurial strategies demanded more than ever political skills and access to political resources , and this led to a reversion to earlier patterns with the appointment in 1985 of a chairman closely linked to the PSOE . |
| 14 | Strangely enough the rainfall and harvests in the next few years were almost supernaturally abundant , and this led to a research team being despatched to the islands by the Minor Religions faculty of Unseen University . |
| 15 | However , some clocks needed urgent repairs after water damage , and this led to a programme of conservation for all the clocks . |
| 16 | What is also of interest here , and this relates to a point Galtung makes , are the historical and social conditions which make the survey , like any method of social research for that matter , possible as instruments of data collection . |
| 17 | It all begins with the stagnation of the blood in capillaries ( tiny blood vessels ) , and this leads to a flow of blood fluids ( plasma ) through the capillary walls which separate fat-storing cells known as adipose cells . |
| 18 | They increase the level of potassium in the body and this leads to a reduction in blood pressure , say researchers at Leicester General Hospital 's University Department of Medicine For The Elderly . |
| 19 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 20 | This package and another delivered to a cattery in Oxfordshire passed through Royal Mail sorting offices unnoticed . |
| 21 | Alcuin [ q.v. ] says that Offa shed much blood to secure Ecgfrith 's position , and if this refers to a purge of the royal kindred may explain why Cenwulf was so distant a relative . |
| 22 | For example , a Third World producer might win the battle to process a mineral or an industrial crop on site , but if this leads to a crisis in foreign currency because the machinery and the technology necessary for the task have to be imported , then it may eventually result in greater dependence . |
| 23 | The move to comprehensive schools in the sixties and seventies led to a broadening of the ability range facing language teachers in British schools . |
| 24 | But the great national hopes built around the figure of Hitler were now falling in ruins ; fewer and fewer looked to a future under his leadership . |
| 25 | The detail of planning legislation by and large fell to a number of able officials who had a remarkably free hand . |
| 26 | THE majority of staff find Newsline informative , interesting and useful according to a survey by the Bank 's Market Research Section . |
| 27 | For the first time children aged under 5 years ( other than those admitted for nursery education and those moving to a reception class from a nursery class in the same school ) will be included in the standard number and parents of such children will have admission appeal rights above . |
| 28 | Although they again found no difference between subjects given no pre-exposure and those exposed to a variety of flavours , interpretation of this finding is rendered equivocal by the fact that the two groups drank different amounts of the CS flavour on the conditioning trial . |
| 29 | The occupations open to a man were , by our standards , exceedingly few , and those open to a woman narrower still . |
| 30 | They are capable of divining the real thrust of a comment , and able to respond to a joke , even a joke in bad taste , in the spirit intended by the commentator . |