Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In four days time , Karen King was due to go to her Aunt Jane 's on the Isle of Man , still hoping to persuade Jessica to join her on the boat . |
| 2 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
| 3 | That led to his selection for the 1990 district championship in the North and Midlands side and also this season he has played twice for Scotland ‘ B ’ , scoring a try in each match . |
| 4 | Great credit for that goes to my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 5 | I mean , you know , ho how does that relate to his pattern that he 's talking about ? |
| 6 | What difference did that make to their share prices ? |
| 7 | ‘ What difference does that make to my silver ? ’ |
| 8 | In this way , Man and Daurog lived in uneasy harmony for many generations , each keeping to their realm , each finding power in the other , each recognizing the other in themselves … |
| 9 | But the notions are very similar , at least in all that matters to our concerns . |
| 10 | We find that frequently when a husband does listen , he does little to indicate to his wife that he is actually considering her input . |
| 11 | Two children may each appeal to their father to intervene ... in some dispute between them . |
| 12 | I turn first to my opposite number , the hon. Member for Stretford ( Mr. Lloyd ) , who made some interesting statements , not least that relating to his spending commitments . |
| 13 | Because they would be still free to go to their parties and they they would n't be affecting neighbours in that way . |
| 14 | This led to their inclusion in numerous combination chemotherapy programmes . |
| 15 | This led to her death from pneumonia in November last year . |
| 16 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
| 17 | This led to his prediction that electromagnetic waves existed and would propagate at a velocity c equal to the ratio of electromagnetic to electrostatic units of measurement . |
| 18 | This led to his writing Zen and the Art of Climbing Mountains , about to be published by Element Books . |
| 19 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
| 20 | This led to his appointment by the home secretary to a commission on explosions of compressed gas cylinders ( 1895–6 ) . |
| 21 | Difficulties arose because of the relative impurity of even the best available caustic soda , and this led to his greatest success — a process for manufacturing very pure caustic soda by the electrolysis of brine in a rocking cell containing mercury . |
| 22 | The following day his chest got considerably worse and this led to his hospitalization . |
| 23 | It seems highly likely that this contributes to their increased risk of infection . |
| 24 | ( It is not clear if this refers to his own experiment or to the fact that Jones had by then made his work known to them . ) |
| 25 | More than half a million people are treated for sexually transmitted diseases each year — and many more go untreated because they either do not recognise symptoms or are too embarrassed to go to their doctor . |
| 26 | This points to our need for healthy relationships with other people , and above all for a healthy relationship with God . |
| 27 | The reasons for this phenomenon are varied : the tightening bonds of serfdom and the greater degree of social regimentation introduced by Peter the Great meant that a number of previously innocent practices ( tree-felling , salt-gathering , trespass , begging , vagrancy , and so on ) were criminalized and punished with hard labour and exile ; popular protest against the proliferating powers of the state in the form of minor revolts , mass insurgencies ( for example , Bulavin , Pugachev ) , large-scale banditry and escalating rates of petty crime were similarly dealt with ; the abolition of capital punishment for criminal offences in 1753 led to its replacement with ‘ civil execution ’ ( public flogging and mutilation followed by perpetual katorga ) ; and laws passed in 1766 and 1769 changed the usual place of penal servitude from Rogervik and other locations in European Russia to the silver mines and factories around Nerchinsk . |
| 28 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 29 | During their suffering the rabbits often become flyblown and this adds to their distressing appearance . |
| 30 | They both do a considerable amount of travelling , since Marie likes to check the Brasserie 's takings and George does n't want to lose touch with L'Auberge 's customers , and this adds to their fatigue . |