Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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% . |
| 2 | This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | All cases correspond to an initial kinetic energy at h=100 km of 15Mton . |
| 6 | ‘ So it emerges from these authorities that the retention of moneys known to have been paid under a mistake at law , although it is a course permitted to an ordinary litigant , is not regarded by the courts as a ‘ high-minded thing ’ to do , but rather as a ‘ shabby thing ’ or a ‘ dirty trick ’ and hence is a course which the court will not allow one of its own officers , such as a trustee in bankruptcy , to take . |
| 7 | Table 6.7 compares the additional times added to an average record seek due to consecutive spill ( for files using mid-square and division randomizing techniques ) , chained overflow in a separate area and chained overflow in the prime data area . |
| 8 | Whereas Serena is concerned to domesticate her problems , Stella consciously strives to exaggerate her own eccentricity , yet her resilience and the regularity of her yo-yo-like existence testify to an underlying solidity . |
| 9 | Although not a new phenomenon abroad , occurrences of listeria were relatively rare in Britain until 1989 when the number of cases rose to an estimated 800 , one third of which were pregnant women . |
| 10 | Atropine given during intravenous infusion led to an immediate fall in acid output . |
| 11 | We seem to remember that revelations about recycling Mr Kinnock 's speeches led to an American presidential candidate withdrawing in that country 's last election . |
| 12 | Some organisations may have a special appeals procedure , with problems or grievances referred to an independent arbitrator . |
| 13 | For instance , a work of scholarship devoted to an esoteric subject will sell for a significantly higher price than a novel of approximately the same length and format by a popular writer . |
| 14 | The case roles have been modified since Fillmore 's original definition to include restrictions such as these , but the restriction lists grow to an interminable length and the technique is still unable to recognise that two expressions ( e.g. ’ the woman ’ and ’ she ’ ) may refer to the same individual . |
| 15 | → DI stands for ‘ direct inject ’ , a term applied to an electronic unit which provides a method of hooking up a variety of instruments and amplifiers to a mixing desk . |
| 16 | In his own attempt to ‘ map ’ the origins of life onto the individual psyche , Freud came to an unsettling conclusion . |
| 17 | Both these experimental conformations and the model conformations obtained with JUMNA are analysed using the CURVES algorithm ( 26,27 ) which determines a full independent set of helicoidal parameters related to an optimal curvilinear helical axis . |
| 18 | The Uderzo-Goscinny partnership came to an abrupt end with Goscinny 's death in 1977 . |
| 19 | The car came to an abrupt halt . |
| 20 | I promised at the outset , however , to show that reductive treatment of these features of the mind leads to an incoherent conception of the world , quite independently of the inadequacies of the reductions themselves : that is , even if the reduction of consciousness and thought were not independently flawed , the picture of the world that emerges is incoherent . |
| 21 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 22 | As Lord Hill replied to an outraged Lord Derby , whose TWW had ‘ stood on its record ’ and been brusquely dismissed , newcomers such as Harlech could offer only promises , ‘ but if promise is never to be preferred to performance , then every television company will go on for ever ’ ( Sendall , 1983 , p. 359 ) . |
| 23 | He said the car belonged to an elderly lady in Wokingham . |
| 24 | By June 22 UN military observers stated that 16,642 contras had been disbanded , the figure rising to an estimated 19,197 by June 26 . |
| 25 | Owners are told to start with a children 's toilet seat taped to an ordinary cat litter box . |
| 26 | With wide open beaks both birds cackled — ‘ Kek-kek-kek-kek-kek-kek ’ — voices rising to an explosive crescendo . |
| 27 | A treaty may exceptionally purport to bind all non-party States , States belonging to an identifiable category , or even named third States : |
| 28 | Instead of rent amounting to an annual 15% of operating costs , it could decline to 13% or 14% . |
| 29 | The United Kingdom 's tourist industry relies to an incredible extent on a nostalgia , a re-construction of the past , particularly a rural past without tears , bloodstains or nasty smells . |
| 30 | Since the agreements were contracts made under domestic law , it would be necessary to establish that they were internationalised contracts with international law as the proper law of the contract for their violation to amount to an international wrong . |