Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 3 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 4 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 5 | The Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus [ see p. 39155 ] on Nov. 11 ordered partial mobilization in all of its republics , instructing commanders to go to the Chechen capital , Grozny . |
| 6 | In contrast , mergers led to a significant increase in industrial concentration and monopoly power in the UK . |
| 7 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 8 | The application of such skills led to the greater control of an army and , as a consequence , to its more effective use as a military arm . |
| 9 | In doing so , we were particularly interested in the degree to which the proposals conformed to an evolving set of guidelines , and seemed likely to accord with the stated objectives of the project . |
| 10 | an evaluation of two kinds of training in writing skills given to a smaller group of postgraduates . |
| 11 | He 's gone all over the eastern Mediterranean , and now has plans to go to the western end , to Spain , which was a thriving colony of the Roman empire with a lively intellectual life which had n't been touched by the Christian faith . |
| 12 | Whether the increase in comparatively recent times points to a third population is a subject for Chapter 8 . |
| 13 | Decreasing COHb values led to a slight increase of SpO , as would be expected by the formula SpO= ( OHb+0.9COHb ) /total Hb100% , according to Tremper and Barker . |
| 14 | The union wants employers to agree to a specific date for equalising eastern and western wages , though it is willing to wait beyond 1994 . |
| 15 | Sub-panels and writers ' groups report to the vertical panel and the whole is co-ordinated by the Institute 's professional board . |
| 16 | In 1987 , the number of new houses added to the total stock was only 212,000 , and of this number only 34,000 were in the public sector . |
| 17 | 11.2 undertakes , during the continuance of this Agreement , to provide directly or indirectly an efficient and effective help line to deal with fault calls relating to the Licensed Software made by end-users who have entered into the Software Licence Agreement described above . |
| 18 | Nor are the parallels confined to the inner city . |
| 19 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 20 | The heading for this section looks like a play on words , but it is intended to point out the fact that , while development control is one of the instruments by which planning policies are implemented , there are also policies relating to the actual operation of the control . |
| 21 | Table 6.7 compares the additional times added to an average record seek due to consecutive spill ( for files using mid-square and division randomizing techniques ) , chained overflow in a separate area and chained overflow in the prime data area . |
| 22 | Signed Danish is not Danish , when you can not hear/distinguish the words — but another type of sign language , which has the primary advantage that hearing people can use it at the same time as they use spoken language , and the secondary advantage is that some — and only some — rules applying to the spoken language are conveyed to the deaf child . |
| 23 | The year has seen another 12 projects added to the active list bringing the total considered to 60 since TRANSAID was launched in early 1988 . |
| 24 | MADONNA , EMF , GEORGE MICHAEL , LISA STANSFIELD and SEAL are among artists contributing to a new AIDS benefit LP . |
| 25 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 26 | For example , if the business is heavily dependent on numerous long-term contracts , a purchaser may decide to investigate the contracts equating to a specified percentage of the turnover of the business plus one or two minor contracts . |
| 27 | In addition there are also galleries devoted to the American Indian , the Pennsylvania Germans , the religious community of the Shakers , and the isolated Spanish colonists of New Mexico . |
| 28 | The catalogue raisonné is destined to become one of the finest projects devoted to a modern artist and will be the invaluable source of reference for scholarship and the trade alike . |
| 29 | Design proposals and plans relating to the proposed conversion to timeshare operation |
| 30 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |