Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 2 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 3 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |
| 4 | Of the newspapers consulted , two-thirds ( 66% ) were national , a quarter ( 25% ) were local , and the remainder were either foreign ( 2% ) or belonged to a miscellaneous group of newspaper-type publications , such as trade newspapers ( 7% ) . |
| 5 | Or defected to the Soviet Union … |
| 6 | related to the existing er agricultural or related to the agricultural buildings , that will be put up before this is built . |
| 7 | There has also been a change in the holiday habits of the Madeirans themselves , who used to retire to their summer villas at Monte or Santo da Serra to escape the heat or flocked to the rocky shoreline around Funchal to bathe every day . |
| 8 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 9 | The atmosphere of grey repression that clung to the eastern side of the city is being purged at an astonishing speed . |
| 10 | I am sure it was the pressure from the warrior class and the impending general election that led to a final figure of 63,500 , which is a cut of about 17 per cent . |
| 11 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 12 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 13 | As both polyester and polyamide are ultimately derived from oil , the industry suffered a major trauma ; raw material prices went up between three and four times — and that led to a rapid revision of growth rate potential . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , that led to a minor accident involving the property of the Hauxwells which I suspect even Hannah will not know about . |
| 15 | And those last months , when strike leapfrogged strike , were the catalyst that led to a Conservative landslide and the desperate recasting of Labour policies . |
| 16 | It was in Silesia that a marvellous Tottenham Hotspur team , League champions and FA Cup winners in 1961 , were first introduced to the hazards of European competition , their ambitions in disarray until Dave Mackay inspired a partial recovery that led to a 8-1 success in the return at White Hart Lane . |
| 17 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 18 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 19 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 20 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 21 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
| 22 | ‘ This way , ’ he was instructing , leading her on brisk strides up the double stone staircase that led to the front door . |
| 23 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 24 | Indeed , it was the attempt by American political science to construct a framework for the comparative analysis of modern , transitional and traditional societies under the guidance of structural-functionalism , that led to the logical inevitability of the bureaucracy , particularly in developing states , being regarded as ‘ multifunctional ’ . |
| 25 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |
| 26 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 27 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 28 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 29 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |
| 30 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |