Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | That amounted to a separate and independent cause of action . |
2 | It angered her that he appeared to think this amounted to a great concession . |
3 | In the case of Nos. 13 , 25 , 34 and 35 , this amounted to a complete rebuild , including strengthened solebars . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | This led to a substantial increase in platelet cholesterol concentration , the bulk of this increase being associated with the platelet membrane . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Together with overgrazing by overstocking , this led to a serious and continuing degradation of the land . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Ministers also hoped that employers would cut out overmanning and root out inefficiency , even if this led to a temporary surge in unemployment . |
19 | 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 ) . |
20 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
21 | This led to a deep conflict within himself which carried with it the handicap that he did not really understand the ordinary world , was remote from everyday life , and so lacked balance . |
22 | According to Koenig , this led to a month-long orgy involving virgins and she-asses garlanded for the occasion . |
23 | Perhaps , in the ancestral species , this led to a frequent but happy error soon ‘ fixed ’ by evolution : food intended for queen larvae went into a food store by mistake , where it was mixed with saliva to produce a new storable food which could replace pollen . |
24 | Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive . |
25 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
26 | This led to a heated family argument , the daughter not wanting to leave her family , the husband not wanting to lose his wife , and the father indicating that this was not what he intended . |
27 | This led to a two mile chase on my bicycle following his refusal to answer my questions and a final on the deserted marshes where large quantities of tobacco had to be recovered from the long grass in a grey December dawn . |
28 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
29 | This led to a military standoff between French and American troops and a bitter rebuke from President Truman . |
30 | This led to a rapid drop in pressure in the primary cooling system , and to the leak of some 20 tons of radioactive coolant into the secondary system . |