Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as an animal without previous experience may respond to a complex stimulus , so it may produce a complex set of movements in response to a stimulus . |
| 2 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 3 | Their stubbornness may lead to a heightened sense of mischievousness and humour untainted by cruelty or spite . |
| 4 | They had , however , the ‘ duty of making such inquiry as the circumstances of the case ought to indicate to a sensible man is , without difficulty , presently practicable ’ . |
| 5 | In another sense , however , the research could be interpreted as pointing to the necessity to ensure that , once crossed , the threshold of removal should lead to a particular , compensatory form of care in recognition of the child 's maternal loss . |
| 6 | If we divide the domestic economy into two sectors , public and private , then the deficit must correspond to a financial deficit by one or both of these sectors . |
| 7 | Lord Penrose said that the case should proceed to a full hearing of evidence on those points . |
| 8 | That export may amount to an associated operation . |
| 9 | Subsidiarity may be even worse than worthless , because if people of the intellect of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary believe that it will be some protection when in fact it will not , that illusion may lead to a great deal more movement to the centre than they would like to see . |
| 10 | While these forms of subsidy are not exhaustive , a consistent message appears to be that a cash transfer is the most efficient way of increasing the welfare of the recipient ( i.e. , for any given transfer , welfare of the recipient may increase to a greater extent ) . |
| 11 | To extend the use of numeric pagers , each number can indicate a pre-determined action , for example that the employee should go to a certain area or undertake a particular task . |
| 12 | By focusing upon the costs of production in different regions , the bases of competition , various indices of performance , and the major bottlenecks to growth , the study should contribute to an improved understanding of spatial variations in small firm development . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman will know that the British coal industry must respond to a competitive environment . |
| 14 | That was the first weakness , the first failure , which had led on , so inevitably , through the series of , not after all so many , girls who did not matter , to the girl who mattered ; and to the point where Franca 's complaisant kindness must come to an abrupt end . |
| 15 | Where steps are not taken to avoid such holding out , the salaried partner has the same professional responsibilities as a full partner to ensure that his firm complies with the Indemnity Insurance Rules ( under which salaried partners are treated as principals ) and the Accounts Rules ( see Chapter 12 ) ; and in theory the Inland Revenue could look to a salaried partner who is held out as a member of the firm for payment of income tax payable in respect of its profits , though in practice such a claim is unlikely . |
| 16 | But a United Nations expert from Oxford University says action could lead to a holy war . |
| 17 | Similarly , if we can image that the research could lead to a diverging range of possibilities we believe that it is much more likely to lead to unexpected discoveries than would be the case if researchers were focused on a well specified target . |
| 18 | However , we must not forget that we are trying to spawn new industrial or commercial opportunities , and although researchers are encouraged to explore the full potential of their ideas whatever the outcome , it must be conceivable that the research could lead to a significant opportunity for investment within a reasonable timescale ; say a decade or so . |
| 19 | Sexism is a term used to refer to a whole range of justifications which supposedly make acceptable the inequalities in income , in job statuses , in promotion chances and in access to power , for example , from which women suffer . |
| 20 | This would allow the individual to specialise in a particular job and the division of labour would lead to a clear distinction between management and the workforce . |
| 21 | In the longt term , Labour would look to a steep reduction in toxic waste and to the elimination of some of the most dangerous types of waste . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not.fit for public Life , ’ he wrote from Bristol to his new friend John Thelwall , the radical lecturer ; ‘ yet the Light shall stream to a far distance from the taper in my cottage window ’ . |
| 23 | Anyone else would be spending money prematurely because the benefits of additional quota would apply to a 1994 claim only . |
| 24 | The first was based on the concept that a contract might contain a fundamental term — a core obligation — so that a failure to perform the fundamental term would amount to a total failure to perform the contract . |
| 25 | It is envisaged that this active mantle upwelling would lead to a significant heating of the overlying lithosphere and could generate uplifts of up to around 1 km . |
| 26 | It is argued that greater care in extraction would lead to a higher price of the timber but , in hill-forest in Sarawak planned systems using directional felling are said to reduce logging damage by half without incurring additional costs . |
| 27 | Sentencing Robert Cameron , Sheriff James Farrell warned that any knife-related crime would lead to a custodial sentence . |
| 28 | We know that a car will come to a grinding halt if we put water in the petrol tank , so no one in their right mind does it ! |
| 29 | IBM , which had insisted that there would be parallel and separate development strategies for MVS and OS/2 on the one hand , and for Unix on the other , now says that the switch will lead to a consistent development environment for OS/2 and AIX . |
| 30 | A rise in investment will lead to a multiplied rise in national income ( from Y 1 to Y 2 ) . |