Example sentences of "[that] [verb] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , that led to a minor accident involving the property of the Hauxwells which I suspect even Hannah will not know about . |
| 6 | And those last months , when strike leapfrogged strike , were the catalyst that led to a Conservative landslide and the desperate recasting of Labour policies . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No one , for example , supposes that the knowledge that belongs to a good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book . |
| 9 | Long periods of lone quiet sleep may be one factor that contributes to a higher rate of sudden deaths in white than in Asian infants . |
| 10 | If for example , you wanted to make a previously designed garment in a yarn or a stitch pattern that knits to a different tension , you would simply load the required file from the disk and enter the new tensions in place of the original ones . |
| 11 | It is a generally held view that contributing to a good pension scheme is the best method of saving . |
| 12 | It is noteworthy that the Committee received only one complaint about political balance , and that referred to a single item in one news programme . |
| 13 | And human touch The touch that quivers to a new identity . |
| 14 | The sufferer is con-fronted with truth — as seen by the peer group of patients — rather than the version of it that corresponds to a false picture that only he or she perceives and finds acceptable . |
| 15 | With or without Campbell the Blues should have few problems against an Ards side that crashed to a 5– defeat at the hands of Cliftonville in their first TNT cup tie at the weekend . |
| 16 | The personal allowances and reliefs ( income that you are allowed to earn without being taxed ) that pertain to a single person are as follows : |
| 17 | But what is important here is that where allophonic variation in a phoneme class is discussed in the main handbooks and histories , this is usually variation that leads to a present-day characteristic of the standard variety . |
| 18 | Does the Minister not recognise the dangers of fragmenting the health service and destroying the planning framework ; the cost of ever-increasing bureaucracy ; the reduction in choice for the doctor ; the fear that this is a road that leads to a two-tier system in which money comes first and the Health Service is relegated to a safety-net , fallback provision ? |
| 19 | Common sense suggests that there should be as much integration as possible of the practical training , classroom-based education , and formal assessment that leads to a professional qualification . |
| 20 | Vic threads the tunnels , switches lanes , swings out on to a long covered ramp that leads to a six-lane expressway thrust like a gigantic concrete fist through the backstreets of his boyhood . |
| 21 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 22 | With a gasp that turned to a shuddering sigh , she felt their flesh merge . |
| 23 | Then you would n't have people thinking that going to a Phish concert means you have to put up with the smell of somebody who did n't do very well at school . |
| 24 | This does separate members of a run of keys , but it fails to separate two or more records that randomize to a particular storage position . |
| 25 | At the current exchange rates that amounts to a mere £159 . |
| 26 | On this aspect of his collection he has said : ‘ Within this field , I try to obtain beautifully bound copies that belonged to a royal library , to a prince , or to a famous bibliophile . |
| 27 | We report a case that alludes to a facilitating mechanism . |
| 28 | Much of data processing involves retrieving records that refer to a given customer , stock item or member of staff . |
| 29 | However , firms must consider that moving to a new area can break ties with existing customers and suppliers and could lead to a loss of business if new links are not forged straight away . |
| 30 | Section 92(1) states that to amount to a statutory nuisance the odour must be EITHER prejudicial to health OR a nuisance . |