Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the steep decline in apprenticeships has led to a reduced demand for part-time craft and technician courses . |
| 2 | Spanish workers voted heavily Socialist in the European parliamentary elections even though Mr Gonzalez 's tight economic policies has led to a 17.3 per cent jobless rate and running battles with the trade unions . |
| 3 | The increased use of computers has led to a dramatic rise in the production of paper records . |
| 4 | The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations . |
| 5 | So called hotting and joyriding around some of the Oxford Estates with stolen cars has contributed to a massive increase in carcrime . |
| 6 | Elsewhere in south-east Asia , over-use of pesticides has led to a devastating resurgence of pests by destroying the pests ' natural predators . |
| 7 | Man 's ownership of animals has contributed to a great degree towards the creation of this semi-natural environment , at least within the world 's land mass . |
| 8 | In a period when the number of courses increased , WEA membership in the District declined by 150 and in 1931 , capitation fees from branches had slumped to a mere £44 . |
| 9 | Some medium-sized schools had shifted to a three-tier model , while some large schools were still operating a rather unsatisfactory and somewhat stressed version of Type 2 or even Type 1 . |
| 10 | It is surprising how few units have changed to a cheaper implant in the face of a limiting budget for prostheses . |
| 11 | Whereas Marxism-Leninism does not always take a wholly positive attitude towards the peasantry , identifying petit bourgeois tendencies — particularly amongst the less impoverished — which can make them a sometimes unreliable ally , Mariátegui and subsequent Latin American Marxists have pointed to a dual oppression — both economic and racial . |
| 12 | Political interest in these areas has led to a large number of initiatives . |
| 13 | The first part of our study , which was reported in the October 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 13 ) , demonstrated that over this five year period the combined effects of mergers among the large audit firms and voluntary auditor switches among listed companies had led to a significant increase in seller concentration . |
| 14 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 15 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 16 | From one in Khorramshahr , 800 refugees have gone to a better , cooler site near Dezful , 200 km ( 120 miles ) north . |
| 17 | TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama . |
| 18 | The deregulation of the financial sector over recent years has led to a significant increase in bank lending to industry . |
| 19 | The upper level of exposure for workers had reduced to a seventh of its level in the 1930s , for example . |
| 20 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 21 | After the adjacent layers of atoms have slipped to a greater or less extent , so that the material is deformed in shear , no serious weakening has necessarily taken place , so that broken bonds have reformed with new partners . |
| 22 | Once the seedlings have developed to a reasonable size , they should be transplanted in the aquarium . |
| 23 | The way in which particular individuals have reacted to a particular restraint , and how this in turn has affected their general social behaviour and attitudes , has no firm rules which can be laid down . |
| 24 | The potentially large amount of information now available in cross-section surveys has led to a recent explosion in applied economic studies using these data sources . |
| 25 | Pravda 's financial difficulties had led to a brief suspension in March [ see pp. 38825 ; 38874 ] , but its pro-communist line had changed little since its reappearance following a ban in August 1991 for alleged support for the attempted coup [ see pp. 38418 ] . |
| 26 | By the second century AD such refined tastes had spread to a wider public . |
| 27 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 28 | Such questions have led to a bewildering muddle . |
| 29 | The assessment panels have contributed to a better working relationship between guidance staff and other members of staff . |
| 30 | Recent investment in production facilities and reserves of quality wines have led to a new lease of life for this long established house . |