Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The storm builds to a particular intensity . |
| 2 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | This case points to a possible role for moderate hypothermia in preventing hepatitis secondary to ingestion of paracetamol , when it might be used as an adjunct to treatment with acetylcysteine or haemoperfusion in high risk cases . |
| 4 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 5 | They also found that an error of eight weeks in the date of payment led to an average error in the proportionate mispricing of only 0.01% . |
| 6 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 7 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 8 | Perhaps instead of competing with each other to sell their wares , Third World countries could get together and force the West to agree to a standard minimum price for commodity prices , like oil-producing countries did with OPEC . |
| 9 | Whether the tape is a real recording of the voices of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles or not , its existence points to a concerted effort to damage Prince Charles . |
| 10 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 11 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |
| 12 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 13 | ZOMAX , a new pain-killing drug given to a million people in the UK over the last two years is being withdrawn by the manufacturers , pending changes in the prescribing information issued to doctors . |
| 14 | This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition . |
| 15 | In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism . |
| 16 | In contrast , mergers led to a significant increase in industrial concentration and monopoly power in the UK . |
| 17 | In doing so , we were particularly interested in the degree to which the proposals conformed to an evolving set of guidelines , and seemed likely to accord with the stated objectives of the project . |
| 18 | The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus . |
| 19 | The combination of ranitidine with cisapride further diminished the acid reflux found with ranitidine — that is , cisapride led to an additional reduction of total reflux ( from 6.4 ( 1.2- 22.8 ) % to 3.7 ( 1.0–12.7 ) % , p<0.01 ) , supine reflux ( p<0.05 ) , and postprandial reflux ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 20 | an evaluation of two kinds of training in writing skills given to a smaller group of postgraduates . |
| 21 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 22 | Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament . |
| 23 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |
| 24 | We are therefore of the opinion that the faster two components seen in the SDS-sequestration technique correspond to a weaker subset of GC sites and possibly other non-GC sites as well . |
| 25 | The report continues with a list of cases in which disputes over fixtures in listed building led to a public enquiry , a court case , or both and concludes with a section entitled ‘ How to make the legislation more effective ’ , which provides advice to owners , information on Stop Notices and calls for control over the sale of fixtures . |
| 26 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 27 | Betty was here out of the kindness of her heart to minister to a wounded human being . |
| 28 | Whether the increase in comparatively recent times points to a third population is a subject for Chapter 8 . |
| 29 | The last sentence refers to an earlier conversation between Green and Hickson in which the latter had claimed that the Cambridgeshire LEA would not be prepared to support the work of the District , whereas the Board had been offered a grant of £100 for 1931–32 and the prospect of increased grant-aid in subsequent years . |
| 30 | Decreasing COHb values led to a slight increase of SpO , as would be expected by the formula SpO= ( OHb+0.9COHb ) /total Hb100% , according to Tremper and Barker . |