Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The application of such skills led to the greater control of an army and , as a consequence , to its more effective use as a military arm . |
| 2 | Such arms were generally apsidal in one or three apses and these designs led to the later development of the chevet , particularly seen in France ; also , in order to retain their privacy , the monks re-established the nave altars east of the crossing , so confirming the eastern altar position . |
| 3 | Congregationalism appealed to the better-off sections of industrial society . |
| 4 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 5 | Chipley was demolished in the nineteenth century and the Sanford descendants withdrew to the smaller house adjacent , where today hangs Clarke 's portrait , and legends persist about Locke composing philosophy in the bowling green . |
| 6 | The general view , extending to some members of the RCM , held that refugees belonged to the lower orders , and that no amount of hard work or intellectual promise on their part could alter their self-evident assumption . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , with the decline of the bigger whales like the blue whale , right whale and others in the north Atlantic due to hunting pressures , attention turned to the smaller minke whale with the result that it too is becoming scarcer . |
| 8 | Such a well-developed economy led to the greater exploitation of geological resources , and the English landscape witnessed quarrying of stone and ores on a scale not seen before — in the Forest of Dean ( coal and iron ) , Derbyshire and the Mendips ( lead ) , Cornwall ( tin ) and Dolaucothi in Wales ( gold ) — although most areas were worked and reworked later on and it is usually impossible to isolate the Roman element . |
| 9 | Given the image of BA coupled to the lower fares I can see passengers defecting in their droves from the City 's resident airlines . |
| 10 | From the primitive ‘ animism ’ ( a word invented by him ) the road led to the higher monotheistic religions , and eventually the triumph of science which , capable of explaining increasingly large areas of experience without reference to spirit , would ‘ in one department after another substitute for independent voluntary action the working out of systematic law ’ . |
| 11 | William de Casingham fled to the denser Weald with a thousand men , emerging to harry the French until the Earl Marshal could muster enough support to drive the invaders out in 1217 . |
| 12 | ‘ Gentleman ’ was applied to , for example , the cadets of eminent families : thus four of the £100 assessments in Rutland belonged to the younger brothers and sisters of Francis Brown , Esq. , of Little Casterton . |
| 13 | The older man pointed to the younger who was loading tangled nets into the small , brightly painted fishing boat , Island Spirit . |
| 14 | This combination led to the older name for the phenomena we are considering : thermohaline convection . |
| 15 | Subsequent meetings with Dr Reid convinced him that a grave injustice had been done to both the parents of the nine children subject to the dawn raids of 1991 , and to Mrs W and her children , removed in November 1990 and whose disclosures while in care led to the later social work action . |
| 16 | Then came the smash hit dance movie Footloose , and success and fortune went to the younger Penn 's head . |
| 17 | These dwellings belonged to the poorer white small holders , and were built without consultation with architects or planners . |