Example sentences of "of [noun sg] have [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collapse of communism had led to the arrest of several RAF members in mid-1990 [ see p. 38476 ] , and the RAF hard core was thought to number only 20-30 people . |
| 2 | It is at its most active in urban areas such as my constituency , the metropolitan city of Leeds , and other big cities such as Newcastle , Bradford and Manchester , whose Members of Parliament have contributed to the debate . |
| 3 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , an almost entirely supine parliamentary opposition has confirmed that the political culture which is supposed to ensure our much-vaunted freedom of opinion has stagnated to the point of inertia . |
| 5 | In practice this aura of professionalism has worked to the exclusion of the many who have no such education and training . |
| 6 | Sometimes the investigation of nature has sunk to the bottom in a stratification of priorities . |
| 7 | In El Salvador and Guatemala , the disruptions of war have added to the problems . |
| 8 | So too an answer is needed to the question of whether the failure to manage the transfer of information and the joint planning of a continuous four-year scheme between two different phases and organizations of education has led to the achievement of less than was hoped for , regardless of the fact that it has been very heavily funded . |
| 9 | But gradually her horror of water had extended to the bath and shower in her own home . |
| 10 | His own horror of self-revelation has led to the assumption that there are such revelations to be made . |
| 11 | This great plate — adorned with a few ‘ hot spots ’ , where plumes of magma have spurted to the surface randomly to form such agglomerations of islands as the Hawaiian chain , the Marquesas , the Tuamotos , the Tubuais and that tiny British possession the Pitcairn group — is almost universally deep , has a floor covered with siliceous oozes and red clays and is dotted with millions of volcanic abyssal hills discovered by the trailing of arrays of echo-sounders . |
| 12 | Coercion is not needed today for most people in these areas , for the evolution of mankind has led to the internalization of these prohibitions ; the super-ego , which develops in most children in modern societies , controls these . |
| 13 | By agreeing to their inclusion in the Bill the Secretary of State has responded to the anxieties of my hon. Friends the Members for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) and for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) , and of South Glamorgan county council , Cardiff city council and many other bodies . |
| 14 | The head of science had come to the library committee with a prior interest in language and science . |
| 15 | Recent insights into the pharmacology and component properties of sulphasalazine have led to the development of a new generation of drugs based on mesalazine ( 5-aminosalicylic acid , 5-ASA ) . |
| 16 | It stipulated that at least 60 per cent of lending had to go to the private sector , and no more than 40 per cent to infrastructure projects . |
| 17 | Lisa had flung out through the door without so much as a glance at him , and on legs made of rubber had fled to the lift . |
| 18 | However more recently the focus of interest has shifted to the medium and smaller sized urban centres , where historic structures and environmental attractiveness have also been threatened by traffic problems . |
| 19 | Such combines are still common , in various forms , but further problems of capitalization , marketing and integration of production have led to the widespread appearance of the conglomerate , within which ownership and control of the means of cultural production become a sector within the wider ownership and control of a much wider ( non-cultural ) productive and financial area . |