Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 2 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 3 | With the funds available , Florey collaborated with Chain , whose work on lysozyme , already mentioned , led naturally to a study of a wider range of antibacterial agents . |
| 4 | Wilson presents these in a chapter devoted entirely to a discussion of the practices of each of the 12 laudesi companies . |
| 5 | The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple . |
| 6 | He moved over to a group of boatmen sitting beneath a large gilt mirror . |
| 7 | Then the atoms are projected upwards with velocity of 2.5 m s -1 ; and cooled further to a temperature of 2.8 K. They are then optically pumped into the F=3 hyperfine level and pass through the microwave interaction region where they experience the first pulse of tunable microwaves centred close to the F=3 to F=4 transition at about 9.2 GHz . |
| 8 | She reported sternly to a meeting of the management team that word-of-mouth recruitment might be taking place . |
| 9 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 10 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 11 | The Doctor darted over to a pile of broken rocks . |
| 12 | Evenings she came home to a stack of manila envelopes with folded papers lettered in scarlet and black . |
| 13 | With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation . |
| 14 | At the dinner the topic of conversation came round to a discussion of how historically interesting it would have been if people living in Saxon or medieval England had produced scale models of houses built in those days . |
| 15 | These writings appealed essentially to a generation of students bored with academic life and attracted by the street credibility of the Situationists , and often provided students with the dubious pleasure of being flattered and insulted at the same time . |
| 16 | In 1902 , Joiner sold the mill to the Somerset-based Dulcote Leatherboard Co , of which he was already a partner , and the mill became home to a number of special processes , mainly for the manufacture of shoe stiffeners . |
| 17 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 18 | But the inherent political weaknesses of the struggles , the chronic inability to attract support from other sections of labour , and the social composition of the unemployed led directly to a collapse of militancy after state intervention . |
| 19 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 20 | A soft-faced old man was framed by the double doors that opened on to a room of unparalleled luxury . |
| 21 | The three , all male teenage domestic workers , climbed on to a roof of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on Friday , a day after she was admitted . |
| 22 | THREE TRACKS selected from their outstanding debut LP and handed over to a bunch of no good acid housers for dancefloor enhancement . |
| 23 | After his initial gaffe that McQueen should own books , Johnson opened out to a man of culture , a man who understood his own problems and who had thought a way through them to a solution , however sad emigration might prove . |
| 24 | Take what happened recently to a friend of mine . |
| 25 | A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict . |
| 26 | Ruth asked as they strolled through the formal gardens towards a flight of stone steps that led up to a forest of dense green pine trees offering shade and coolness . |
| 27 | The heat also produced up to a kilogram of lethal dioxin , some of which still contaminates the surrounding area . |
| 28 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 29 | The Lincolnshire ones lost all their sons in the first World War , except one invalid one , and became rather impoverished , and the Norfolk Baileys hung on to a lot of the money . |
| 30 | Killion shuffled over to a box of ammunition . |