Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This results in a common word like " History " being assigned a weight which is very low compared with that assigned to a rare word such as " swords " .
2 I think that to go to a full service that is actually what 's moving , go back again is actually just confusing the people .
3 The 21-year-old sprinter , who failed a pre-Games drugs test in July , is due to appeal to an independent tribunal within the next few weeks against his four-year ban imposed by the British Athletic Federation .
4 That amounted to a separate and independent cause of action .
5 That points to a possible cause of friction within the Major gang .
6 That points to an annual rate of 310% .
7 In fact , if it were n't for the big blue logo and Oli Frey pic on the cover , there 'd be little to indicate to an early reader that this was indeed the same mag !
8 It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment .
9 It is not possible to come to a clean and simple judgement .
10 We devote $300m of research and development expenditure exclusively to the systems division , which has annual revenues of $2,360m : that corresponds to an respectable level of 12% . ’
11 Instead , properties would be placed in one of eight broad bands each relating to a national average value .
12 And perhaps this is this goes to a wider point of what 's the magic of the definition of Greater York area ?
13 It angered her that he appeared to think this amounted to a great concession .
14 In the case of Nos. 13 , 25 , 34 and 35 , this amounted to a complete rebuild , including strengthened solebars .
15 The County Hall Department are spending from nineteen ninety-two , ninety-three , this amounted to a hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and ten pounds .
16 Together with advice and guidance on housing , neighbourhood development and the layout of roads , this amounted to a total visualization of urban form at a regional scale .
17 The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal .
18 Even allowing for the investment risk of personal pensions , this amounted to a guaranteed gain for younger people and a fairly sound proposition for anyone aged up to about 40 for women and 45 for men .
19 This led to a substantial increase in platelet cholesterol concentration , the bulk of this increase being associated with the platelet membrane .
20 This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred .
21 Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation .
22 This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles .
23 This led to a certain amount of friction between the Gardener ( Hortulanus ) and the Keeper of the Garden ( Praefectus Horti ) , Isaac Rand , who , in accordance with his office , published in the same year Index Plantarum officinalium quae in Horto Chelseiano .
24 This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued .
25 This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord .
26 This led to a general disillusionment with house-planning which today means that the Council planning policy is honoured more often in the breach than in anything else .
27 Together with overgrazing by overstocking , this led to a serious and continuing degradation of the land .
28 A great many civil posts — postal officials , customs officers , policemen , street cleaners — were duplicated and this led to a serious imbalance between the non-productive bureaucracy and the private sector production workers .
29 Ministers also hoped that employers would cut out overmanning and root out inefficiency , even if this led to a temporary surge in unemployment .
30 This led to a circuitous discussion with Paul Lexington about whether it was sound equipment or not , which was only settled after much wrangling ( and , almost definitely , money changing hands ) .
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