Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the state in the early days of the administration of justice led to a remarkable form of attempted committal to prison . |
| 2 | The reconstruction of all the objects could not be completed ( this was later achieved by Bernard Rice and Ahmed Youssef Moustafa ) because of Stewart 's appointment as supervisor of technical education in Palestine in 1930 , but his name remains connected with the first attempt in Egyptian archaeology to restore objects which the loss of wood reduced to a mass of precious metal and faience components . |
| 3 | For Leavis the study of literature led to a growth of intelligence and sensibility . |
| 4 | He hanged himself from a piece of sheet attached to a ventilation grille . |
| 5 | All you need for a marker is a Fishing Gazette pike bung or a piece of polystyrene tied to a stone with a length of line about 12 inches longer than the depth of swim . |
| 6 | The fisherman reached the shore unharmed and took a piece of tentacle to show to a local naturalist called Moses Harvey . |
| 7 | The hardware dongle plugs into your parallel printer port ( your printer can remain attached ) and is attached to a piece of wire leading to a small silver sensor . |
| 8 | The government on Dec. 15 won by 309 votes to 256 with one abstention a vote of confidence attached to a bill on regional aid to the south . |
| 9 | It may or may not be true that positive control of development , the compelling of development to conform to a particular plan determined by the state , is unattainable without nationalisation . |
| 10 | None the less , the enthusiasm aroused by the report and the wide support it achieved among Labour politicians , sections of the Conservative Party and a broad spectrum of opinion led to a series of government White Papers in 1944 organised by the Minister of Reconstruction , Lord Woolton . |
| 11 | Tradition has it that the infliction was brought to the village in a parcel of clothing sent to a local family , the Beevers , one of whose members had died from the plague in London . |
| 12 | The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus . |
| 13 | Later , in its guidance to primary schools on Key Stage 1 assessment , SEAC claimed that the level of attainment assigned to a child ‘ is capable of communicating a reasonably precise meaning … about what the child knows , understands and is able to do ’ ( SEAC 1990 : 2 ) . |
| 14 | On the nights when the tide of sewing ebbed to a low water-mark , Aunt Margaret crept up to Francie 's room and played her flute with him . |
| 15 | A trail of blood led to a two-foot high by 18-inch timber box 20 yards away , perched just off the ground on tiny stilts and carefully camouflaged with twigs and branches . |
| 16 | Its door is open , and a trail of slime leads to a point in the middle of the floor where it suddenly ends . |
| 17 | The ones who leave to go to college or to live in some kind of hostel attached to a place of work , will eventually be embraced into an active social life by their peers . |
| 18 | The confusing rules prohibiting charging for educational provision ( including anything provided as part of the National Curriculum ) and examination entry ( see Appendix to this chapter ) , and the requirement that a course of study leading to a qualification authenticated by an outside body be approved by the Secretary of State or a designated body , have imposed further constraints on what may be offered . |
| 19 | Either course of action leads to a constricted ledge and , to its right , a horizontal break leading out to a stance on the crest of Froggatt Pinnacle — yes , a two-pitch out-crop route ! |
| 20 | It might be argued that in such situations it is the only course of action open to a man and that he would be at fault if he acted differently . |
| 21 | As Cowley walked towards the slightly hunched figure of Bodie , he was able to see Doyle 's peaceful face , eyes closed , white as a sheet ; a moment later the trolley was behind the closing doors of the lift , and Doyle 's life was now in the hands of others , men skilled in surgery , and in the ways of keeping the tenuous thread of life attached to a dying body . |
| 22 | Without deciding the point , the court indicated that whether intensification of use amounted to a material change in use would depend upon the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 23 | One explanation for the mechanism might be that the experience of unemployment leads to a generalized lack of trust in the institutions of authority and the state , which in turn makes people prepared to contemplate breaking the law . |
| 24 | The failure to properly research and understand older consumers is illustrated by several attempts to introduce promotions based on the American experience of discount-trading linked to a magazine . |
| 25 | The perceived breakdown of a traditional moral order during the industrial revolution and the expansion of the division of labour led to a search for new bases of moral integration . |
| 26 | ‘ Just as well your particular brand of persuasion came to a halt when it did Dr Vaughan . |
| 27 | The law of government amounted to a written constitution , decreeing that Saudi Arabia was an hereditary monarchy and that " citizens are to pay allegiance to the King in accordance with the Holy Quran and the Prophet 's tradition " . |
| 28 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 29 | This may be because its members had , or could soon sink roots into , some sort of community belonging to a structured society . |
| 30 | In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved . |