Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 2 | A high-performance clothing system , Vent-A-Layer , was successfully introduced to the market , and has led to a whole series of further product introductions during 1993 . |
| 3 | Our expertise is recognised by boat builders and owners and has led to a constant flow of prestigious projects for yachts from the yards of Camper & Nicholson , Valdettaro , Oyster , Palmer Johnson and Jankel Schooners . |
| 4 | idea , which earned him £5,800 was for the more efficient use of pumps which supply cooling water in the E22 centrifuge plant and has led to a significant saving in energy costs . |
| 5 | This latter aspect has developed without knowledge of BSL and has led to an uninflected form of signing which has been slow to change . |
| 6 | It seems clear that what has happened here is that Johnson has forgotten about the problem of finding ways of making meaning plain and has shifted to a different lexicographical problem , namely how to provide an exhaustive definition of words so that their entire meaning is made explicit . |
| 7 | In Saussure 's theory we identify and attach meaning to an individual word in a sequence by placing it mentally against the background of other words , not present in the sequence , which are both similar and different to it . |
| 8 | It was to be politically left , but above all popular , and designed to appeal to a big readership . |
| 9 | He has one small child and wants to move to a bigger home in order to have some more . |
| 10 | Similarly , in a court where a witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination , or in a meeting where someone hogs the discussion and refuses to listen to an important point which is being made , it may be important that the injunction is resisted . |
| 11 | Replace badly furred-up pipes ( or get a specialist firm in to descale the system ) and consider changing to an indirect system and/or installing a water softener ( page 42 ) . |
| 12 | She has recently started a new job and feels attracted to a senior female colleague who is rumoured to be gay . |
| 13 | He has taken steps to help resolve the financial difficulties and hopes to return to a normal trading position in due course . |
| 14 | For instance , co-production TV series were scripted and cast to appeal to an international audience . |
| 15 | When she was in her fifties and had grown to a generous obesity , her husband would whisper proudly to his dinner guests as they stood in front of some glowing nude or abstract construction , ‘ Wonderful artist , was n't he ? |
| 16 | Reserve Marine Myles Morley , 37 , from Greystoke , Cumbria , developed eyesight problems and had to move to a lower altitude . |
| 17 | The scandal had already caused the closure of the bank and had contributed to an unprecedented number of incumbent legislators retiring or suffering electoral defeats . |
| 18 | On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go . |
| 19 | However , as we are using incremental change instead of wiping the slate clean and trying to move to a new system , we are avoiding huge extra costs at one fell swoop and also avoiding creating a system in which there would be many losers as well as gainers at the point of change . |
| 20 | Our Friday debates tend to be of rather higher quality than some of our midweek debates and all hon. Members who have spoken so far — and , I am sure , those who will follow me — have spoken to a high standard and have contributed to a serious debate on this important issue . |
| 21 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 22 | New FAD Andy puts down his Guardian crossword , sinks his whiskey and suggests relocating to a Real Ale put he knows on the city centre 's crumbling outskirts . |