Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise to power of Saddam Hussein and the subsequent outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980 led to a revival of the Iraqi claim to the islands . |
| 2 | But the Brazilian debt crisis in December 1986 led to a collapse in the perpetual FRN market . |
| 3 | That belongs to a man called now he owned he owned North now what does he own now ? |
| 4 | That led to a strike , followed by tough new pay and conditions package , before the dispute reached its climax with the sacking of virtually the entire 340 staff . |
| 5 | While it remained possible to cling to a sense of the " vital ambitions " of the discipline , " human and institutional frailties " were seen as likely to inhibit the achievement of such ambitions . |
| 6 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 7 | Although GPs can arrange for the test to be done , it is almost always preferable to go to a STD clinic . |
| 8 | ET-1 belongs to a family of peptides ( endothelins 1 , 2 , and 3 ) that possess close structural and biological similarities . |
| 9 | From the King 's workmen I ordered fifty heavy metal hooks , each fastened to a piece of strong rope . |
| 10 | As in so many debates on the nature and location of power in Britain it is not possible to come to a firm and lasting conclusion as to the nature of prime ministerial power relative to the position of the cabinet since Prime Ministers have always differed in their degree of command of the cabinet . |
| 11 | A college … should provide a school … and the subscribers , becoming Governors of the new institution , should proceed to choose a President , Vice-Presidents , Treasurer , Secretary , and such other officers as should appear convenient … to institute their Veterinary Professor … that His Majesty , and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales , be humbly prayed to take it under their joint patronage : and , the Master of the Horse , the President of the Royal Society , the President of the Royal College of Physicians , and the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufacturers and Commerce , should be each invited to a government of the college … |
| 12 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 13 | One character is in the Resistance , another witnesses Hiroshima , another goes to a concentration camp , others stay at home . |
| 14 | Neither of the lecturers concerned was willing to agree to a change at this late date ; when one of them finally gave in , the alternative proposed by the unpopular head of department was a slot already occupied by one of Andrew 's lectures . |
| 15 | The vendor may not be willing to agree to a retention particularly if the purchaser is unable to offer adequate security for the future payment or is unable to pay retention monies into a joint account pending receipt of the consents . |
| 16 | Even this belongs to a type that one might call the ‘ declamatory madrigal ’ ( cf. |
| 17 | The trade union officials involved in the agreements were fully aware of their two-sided nature , and some admitted to a sense of bad conscience at seeing the regular dismissal of " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 18 | There is the danger that , when we get to college , this grinds to a halt when there is no one to tell you to do it . |
| 19 | If the new husband 's financial status is not acceptable to the mortgagee , so that the mortgagee is only prepared to agree to a conveyance of the property to the wife and new husband if the husband remains liable under the original mortgage , then it would seem reasonable for the husband to comply only with the terms of the court order or matrimonial agreement ( to which of course the new husband is not a party ) and not to convey/transfer to the wife and the new husband . |
| 20 | Some skidded to a halt and deposited their jockeys on the landing side . |
| 21 | This amounted to a withdrawal of $115 billion from the economy , about a third of Brazil 's GDP . |
| 22 | This amounted to a misrepresentation . |
| 23 | This amounted to a reversal of the earlier gradualist assumption that a virtually full preparation of slaves for freedom was possible within the structure of slavery . |
| 24 | This led to a decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1945 to distribute routes in the Pacific , Latin America , and Europe to various other American airlines , some of which continue today . |
| 25 | ‘ This led to a tightening up of the law and Knowsley 's environmental health and trading standards officers will continue to monitor the sale of food in the borough to ensure that it is as safe as the public rightly expects it to be . ’ |
| 26 | This led to a problem in at least one case described below , where there was a contextual clue to the speaker 's ethnicity . |
| 27 | This led to a famine and a delay in the wheat harvest of 2 months . |
| 28 | This led to a reduction in the amount of capital available for new investment in manufacturing and to a fall in the ability of private individuals to change jobs and move houses . |
| 29 | This led to a reliance on an elaborate system of committees and subcommittees and a failure to trust officers sufficiently in the taking of routine decisions . |
| 30 | This led to a discussion of favourite books and authors , then on to music and art . |