Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 2 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 3 | The codes used are summarised in Fig 11.13 ; internal in this instance referred to any activity within the EPH system model , and external to those of the wider system of interest or surrounding environment , eg the Department headquarters , Area Offices etc . |
| 4 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 5 | This , it was argued , amounted to ‘ service abroad ’ ; any other view would infringe the right of other Contracting States to object to certain modes of service , such as Germany 's objection to the use of registered mail ; would circumvent the translation requirements existing under the Convention ; and would deprive defendants of the guarantees in Articles 15 and 16 . |
| 6 | While a Hague Rules inspired bill of lading can be challenged by an issuing bank on the basis that Article 3(3) of the Hague Rules defers to municipal law for unlisted requirements , decisional law does not reveal any such challenge . |
| 7 | On May 16 the Appeal Court halved the five-year prison sentence given to former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders in August 1990 for " massive fraud " in connection with the Distillers Company takeover bid [ see p. 37662 ] . |
| 8 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 9 | Secondly , the provision of better educational material for teaching naming to young children . |
| 10 | It was also partly in response to the effects of overaccumulation that deflationary policies led to decreased capacity utilization in the United States . |
| 11 | This in turn causes the protein to fold up in an incorrect way , which results in the haemoglobin molecules sticking to each other . |
| 12 | At Durham Priory , for example , less than half of the income assigned to each office in the monastery was devoted to the activity for which the office had been created ; the rest was absorbed in management costs ( 209 , p.255 ) . |
| 13 | First Annual Report and Balance Sheet , year ending July 12th , 1908 and the Bondholders Account to 31st October , 1908 . |
| 14 | Teesside Crown Court heard how blonde Julie Spence agreed to four sex sessions with her husband when they split after ten years of marriage . |
| 15 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 16 | Further chemical reactions led to living organisms . |
| 17 | Individuals are not accorded the protection given to third States to treaties of having to assent in writing to the imposition of burdens upon them . |
| 18 | It was the discovery by Dr Alice Stewart , for example , that the radiation from hospital X-rays given to pregnant women could increase the risk of leukaemia in their babies which contributed to severe limits being placed on their usage . |
| 19 | On the one hand it can emphasise the regular contributions citizens/groups make to collective life , while on the other it can reduce their participation to elections . |
| 20 | Conditions at the 20-pitch permanent park led to strong condemnation at Newry and Mourne Council . |
| 21 | As the Dragon , signifying ‘ the being who excels in intelligence ’ , breathes ‘ fire ’ , the destructive action of snake venom resembles that of the all-devouring fire , and the snake belongs to those beings which are believed to possess to a high degree that magical energy which is indicated by the Sanskrit word ‘ Tajas ’ , meaning heat or fire . |
| 22 | The philosophers claimed both the privilege to attend to epistemological questions and the privilege of epistemology to be the sole locus for debate about what was ‘ true ’ knowledge . |
| 23 | In our patients , those with proven neural and muscular pathology conformed to these patterns of motor activity . |
| 24 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 25 | The ever expanding knowledge of the builders led to these forms . |
| 26 | Ellis admitted to 22 charges under the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act at Liverpool Magistrates Court yesterday . |
| 27 | Support given to young people from Lothian for national arts courses |
| 28 | Groups are capable of great creativity , as in language and folksong , and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers . |
| 29 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 30 | Todd linked family structure to ideology and politics , and indeed sought to account both for types of regime and for the electoral support given to particular types of party by an area 's dominant family structure . |