Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expectation at an early age that career aspirations can not be met locally contributes to a lack of commitment to the home area and to the acceptance of out-migration as the inevitable solution . |
| 2 | In the first place , as the age of marriage decreased , the years of potential childbearing for the wife increased , and this in turn eventually led to a shortening of the intervals between generations , so increasing the proportion of the population likely to get pregnant . |
| 3 | It is a curious comment on Thatcherism , however , that the administration most committed to a reduction in the role of the state , and in the need for an independent private sector , has spent more on specific urban regeneration and employment schemes and incentives to private investment in urban areas than any other in recent history . |
| 4 | ‘ Stable and fruitful societies have always been elaborately graded ’ , he wrote , and the mistake of apartheid was to make a single decisive distinction on one ground — skin-colour — and then to elevate into a rigid legal system what rightly belongs to a world of personal inclination . |
| 5 | The successes of penicillin and streptomycin naturally led to a search for further antibiotics . |
| 6 | The minister 's entourage and assembled media swept into the narrow office building only to grind to a halt on the stairs while he and Mr Fallon shut themselves off for a brief chat . |
| 7 | Eventually the little bus was summoned again , and we jumped in thankfully and set off towards the plane , only to grind to a halt at Operations again . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , fifty 's gone already in backhanders to a couple of the girls at Central Records . |
| 9 | Not to do so amounted to a dereliction of duty in the same way that Callaghan 's statement misunderstood the political content of media imagery . |
| 10 | I have n't been brave enough to write to a publication of any sort before , but it is one of my favourite pieces of music , and this is the greatest performance I 've ever heard ( and I mean of anything ) , so thanks for the opportunity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 13 | So he suddenly came to a halt at the bottom of this stairs as it turned the corner , with the bottom of the wardrobe rammed into his chest , pinning him to the wall . |
| 14 | Capirossi rarely makes a mistake and his race strategy is sharp enough to belong to a veteran of a decade of grand prix racing rather than a rank beginner . |
| 15 | This facet of conversational discourse quite naturally leads to a consideration of the individual speaker 's topics within what we have been discussing as the conversational topic . |
| 16 | This naturally leads to a lessening of tension in the body . |
| 17 | Britain has only agreed to a package of £65 billion a year . |
| 18 | Nobody , but nobody , would be daft enough to stick to a story like that if it was n't . ’ |
| 19 | History , far from constituting a privileged form of ( historical ) knowledge , is simply the myth of modern man , and merely amounts to a method of analysis . |
| 20 | In Section 12.7 there is a discussion of a number of factors which favour the use of short maturity contracts ( dividend risk , interest rate risk and mispricing risk ) for hedging , so leading to a rise in volume as delivery approaches . |
| 21 | A reduction of ozone would also cause more ultraviolet and visible radiation to reach the ground , so leading to a warming of the lower atmosphere and the earth 's surface . |
| 22 | The sites now considered to illustrate undefended settlements have been chosen at random since it would have required much research and fieldwork to have presented a comprehensive list in time for this Conference ; attention is merely drawn to a number of sites with the hope that they , and others like them may be studied in more detail by local efforts . |
| 23 | The declining number of nurses in training leading to a reduced output of qualified staff , fewer 18-year-olds as a pool for recruitment , and a massive retention problem in London all contributed to a need for concerted action , he stressed . |
| 24 | These have all contributed to a growth in campaign spending . |
| 25 | Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings . |
| 26 | In fact Arieti 's coverage of the latter is very cursory and he swiftly shifts to a discussion of examples of , to use Pickering 's term , ‘ creative malady ’ ; such as Proust 's asthma and Darwin ‘ s psychosomatic palpitations — examples that are interesting in themselves but largely irrelevant to the creativity/psychosis debate . |
| 27 | We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets . |
| 28 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 29 | Storing things up will only lead to a build-up of anger . |
| 30 | 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 . |