Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 2 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 3 | The growing demands and applications being made of plastics are filtering through to the additive market , requiring them to be constantly updated and made more efficient , and thus leading to higher prices , explained the report . |
| 4 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 5 | The external factors , like an unhappy home setting and difficulties associated with living with one parent , could indirectly raise the risk of depression by making unwise choices more likely — early marriage , or dropping out of school , perhaps — and hence leading to higher levels of adverse life events . |
| 6 | This belief in a woman 's heightened sexuality during her period may also have contributed to her being considered dangerous and hence polluting to all males . |
| 7 | It should therefore be advertised internally and externally according to agreed recruitment practices , to adhere to CA 's equal opportunities policy . |
| 8 | From Shrewsbury School Hillary in 1937 went up to Trinity College , Oxford , starting to read philosophy , politics , and economics and then moving to modern history . |
| 9 | In this Jarmusch does not follow the cinematic norm of letting a sequence develop to a climax and then cutting to another sequence . |
| 10 | This chapter may stimulate them to contribute to the effort of welding together insights from different disciplines , rather than , as the majority of students seem to do , keeping their finance lenses firmly in place when reading finance texts and then changing to sociological lenses when reading sociology . |
| 11 | And abruptly reverting to painful gravity : ‘ Was the boy already dead ? ’ |
| 12 | She has given voice to those who thought that previous Conservative governments had been too tolerant or ‘ defeatist ’ about the unions , the welfare state , high taxation , and public spending , and too accommodating to other countries , particularly in the European Community and the Commonwealth . |