Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] to some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , this technique has led to some of my most successful parties where the parents join in and participate in the proceedings . |
| 2 | Sadly , the reorganisation has led to some job losses — 22 out of 101 at Spondon , where the dyehouse has closed , and 75 out of 394 at Coventry , where workshop engineering , catering and cleaning services previously done in-house are now being contracted out . |
| 3 | As Mr Ryan O'Neal , the thespian , approaches middle age , his weight has increased to some 15 stones . |
| 4 | Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had . |
| 5 | He was one of their most brilliant scientists , his research having led to some of Algox' bestselling products . |
| 6 | Foreign currency reserves had plunged to some US$2,300 million in early March , barely enough to cover three weeks ' imports . |
| 7 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 8 | The 1693 title-page calls attention to ‘ Alterations , Additions , and several new SONGS ’ , which is fair enough : Tonson had gone to some trouble to update it . |
| 9 | In New York , incursions on the National Endowment for the Arts have lead to some equally startling volte-faces . |
| 10 | Already , Community funds have led to some of Europe 's best wildlife habitats — for example , Lake Prespa in Greece , home to wolf , bears , otter and rare birds such as the Dalmatian pelican and pygmy cormorant . |
| 11 | Travelling the celebrity circuit has led to some fascinating encounters with certain household names including two sessions with the top talk-show man of his time , Terry Wogan . |
| 12 | The recent introduction of genetically engineered insulin has lead to some problems for diabetics who have changed from animal-derived insulin . |
| 13 | ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people . |
| 14 | Some later public monuments also included portraits of children , and by the second century AD the notion of including portraits of children in public monuments had spread to some highly influential provincial families . |
| 15 | Sir Ralph Grunte had gone to some trouble over his constituency dinner party , La Noblesse being by no means cheap . |
| 16 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 17 | Helen had gone to some lengths over the picnic ; the recipe book included a relevant section , she discovered . |
| 18 | The possibility offered by rapid electronic communication across networks has led to some other new ways of collaborating in science , through bulletin boards and other e-mail techniques , some of which are direct analogues of personal communication and others resemble publication pathways . |
| 19 | The British Isles linger off the shores of continental Europe , uncertain whether to be apart or a part , and their cattle have developed to some degree in isolation but also with many strong two-way links with the cattle of the Continent . |
| 20 | Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect . |
| 21 | Continuing nursing care , it 's important to stress here , that the continuing nursing care , the arrangements have relied to some extent on the use of joint finance to ensure that the Health Authority has been able to meet during the year the extra workload , and er , the budget settlement that they have , er , is actually being discussed at the moment with a view to the picking up some of those costs on a continuing basis . |
| 22 | This is just as well because high interest rates have led to some of Wehmiller 's customers in the UK deferring capital purchases in the short term . |
| 23 | The ruling has led to some confusion , as the barrier appears to contradict the EC principle of free movement of goods across Community borders . |
| 24 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 25 | All strikers had to resort to some extent to borrowing , credit , casual work and other ways and means of managing . |
| 26 | More recent developments have led to some top quality bags being made with a shingle construction , making them lighter and less bulky than two-layer bags . |
| 27 | But , despite the potential , Britain has been tentative in expanding hospital services into the home , although the distress caused to children who spend long periods in hospital has led to some developments in acute paediatric care at home . |
| 28 | While the situation has improved to some extent in recent years , especially in the field of education , nonetheless the basic pattern of inequality remains in all aspects of the social structure , from paid work to the household division of labour , from sexuality to violence . |
| 29 | One might conclude that while the removal of mandatory fees has led to some short-term reduction in charges and a decline in unemployment amongst architects , the continuing controls over training places may result in shortages and fees rising again . |
| 30 | In the twentieth century , history has suffered to some extent in terms of its general significance in relation to people 's interpretations of life , because we now have a whole generation of politicians who , and statesmen , if you can call them such , who know very little history at all . |