Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Britain has only agreed to a package of £65 billion a year . |
| 5 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 6 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) has concluded that the withdrawal of market participants has not led to a reduction in the quality of service or reduced liquidity or competitiveness in the market . |
| 7 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 8 | Does the Minister understand that the arrogance and insensitivity of his hon. Friend , who has not agreed to a meeting for about four months now , has been noted not just by Mr. Johnston but by every farmer in the north-east of Scotland ? |
| 9 | This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence . |
| 10 | The latest security report says installing cameras has finally led to a fall in car theft , but overall hospital crime rose 12.5% last year . |
| 11 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 12 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 13 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 14 | Whatever side is taken in this ongoing debate , however , it appears that knowledge of the ill effects of tobacco has already led to a modification in smoking behaviour among older men , particularly those in non-manual employment . |
| 15 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 16 | Woman to Woman was produced as both an exhibition and a book , it has already toured to a number of venue throughout the UK and is still available for hire through The Royal Photographic Society in Bath . |
| 17 | The increasing productivity of agriculture through the use of modern industrial methods has also led to a decline in traditional job opportunities in the countryside , and the government is keen to encourage more general diversification in the rural economy . |
| 18 | The crisis of resources in public education has also brought to a head questions about the relevance of the present curriculum , which has been criticized as too academic and élitist , and the rigidity of the education system generally . |
| 19 | The recent departure of manager Liam Brady has also brought to a head a bitter boardroom battle which threatens to tear the club apart . |
| 20 | It was at St John 's College , Cambridge , which he entered in the summer of 1784 that matters really came to a head , however . |
| 21 | The economic recession of the '70s and '80s has inevitably led to a fall in the recruitment and training of skilled operatives , coupled with a loss of skilled tradesmen to other , less depressed industries . |
| 22 | The Schedule has now grown to a total of 5,600 sites in Scotland , with over 300 being added each year . |
| 23 | For the drawing room he printed golden lyres on what has now faded to a gold background , bands of crisp white ivy leaves on brown paper in the study , with dark green stripes on a green background for the dining room . |
| 24 | Labour has now moved to a position of adopting EEC laws and institutions as weapons against Conservative economic policy . |
| 25 | The newspaper published an article alleging that material distributed from St Botolph 's has included ‘ the kind of stuff you would expect to find in a San Francisco bath-house , not a Church of England ’ , and , more broadly , that ‘ militant clerical homosexuality has now spread to a point where many of the ancient City churches are open pick-up joints . ’ |
| 26 | The company has long-standing permission to commence operations , but has now agreed to a government request for an environmental impact assessment , the result of which is expected soon . |
| 27 | Banbridge Council has now agreed to a request that the bog be designated as in the area of special scientific interest on account of its wild flowers , fauna and geological features . |
| 28 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 29 | Is the Foreign Secretary aware that the Government 's attitude in Maastricht has left a crippling legacy of anger and resentment among our Community partners about the double opt-out , and that it has even led to a denunciation of the Prime Minister and the Government by their own right-wing allies in the European Community ? |
| 30 | It may also seem improbable that the world 's transaction processing systems will suddenly switch to Taos , but on the other hand the company is already hard at work building SQL interface objects and others that will confer Posix compliance , it has even chatted to a bank about payroll applications . |