Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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% . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | WILLOWFIELD ace Paul Rowan cruised to a comfortable win in the Conlig Six-mile Road Race organised by Pyramid AC . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition . |
| 9 | In Britain it was too good to last , but the slogan led to a disastrous period of false optimism . |
| 10 | In contrast , mergers led to a significant increase in industrial concentration and monopoly power in the UK . |
| 11 | The addition of cisapride led to a significant increase of median contraction amplitude and duration , but only in the mid and distal oesophagus . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Such extraordinary conditions as prevailed , for example , in the lead works at Whitechapel amounted to a virtual death sentence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In January 1952 Acheson resorted to a vivid analogy as he tried to open Churchill 's mind to the need for new policies . |
| 19 | The increased official recognition of the hazards of asbestos led to a veritable torrent of health-related regulations in the US . |
| 20 | My heart rose to a tidal detonation ; |
| 21 | The ( US ) Dow Jones Industrial Average index rose to a record high of 2,821 on May 12 , based on hopes of lower US interest rates , but prices on the New York stock exchange fell sharply on July 23 , as hopes of interest rate cuts subsided . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As the afternoon drew to a close , Mildred crept downstairs and out into the darkening yard . |
| 24 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
| 25 | The catalogue raisonné is destined to become one of the finest projects devoted to a modern artist and will be the invaluable source of reference for scholarship and the trade alike . |
| 26 | For the second quarter of 1989 Canada 's current-account deficit rose to a record high . |
| 27 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 28 | Beyond , a slightly steeper slope of pasture rose to a low skyline with a toupeé of trees . |
| 29 | Conversation with Zaccheus led to a radical change of heart and consequently of direction . |
| 30 | Murchison acted upon the recommendation quickly and the resulting influx of recruits led to a radical change in the organisation of the Survey in Scotland . |