Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of the link programme is to promote an exchange of ideas and has led to visits in both directions . |
| 2 | This compares with around three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 and has led to criticism of the £15 million advertising campaign . |
| 3 | With its emphasis on universal downwearing , it was a negative and obliterating conception resulting from cerebral analysis rather than from observation and has led to sterility in geomorphologic thought and retarded progress in the subject severely . |
| 4 | It can be a real privilege to meet an older person who has experienced considerable loss in their life and has come to terms with it . |
| 5 | Social background may not matter much now ( but until they publish the list we can not judge this for ourselves ) , but the 100 per cent increase in party professionals getting on the list and getting elected to Parliament between 1979 and 1987 can not , surely , be just coincidence ? |
| 6 | Fields had been born in America and had moved to Britain as a child . |
| 7 | Oyston had been brought up the son of a Durham miner and had moved to Blackpool with his parents when they went to open a boarding house . |
| 8 | Over by the fireplace , the headmaster had exhausted his limited store of small talk and had advanced to matters of serious educational concern . |
| 9 | There was at first some confused skirmishing over the actual terms of the Charter — the College 's solicitor , Mr France , had apparently not seen some amendments and had agreed to others from the practitioners ' side without fully informing either the College professors or William Dick . |
| 10 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 11 | Others , however , feel that reforms have debased the profession and have led to exploitation of their services . |
| 12 | Asian women come from many different language groups , practise at least three main religions and have come to Britain in varied patterns of migration but ask them about their family life and the similarity of their experience stands out like the skeleton in an X-ray . |
| 13 | General Robert E. Lee had almost won the day but had retreated to Virginia in spite of a final attack by the last of his reserves under General Hill . |
| 14 | The conservative Blaize , who died of prostate cancer and had been confined to a wheelchair for the past year , lost his parliamentary majority five months ago but had clung to office despite opposition protests . |