Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the other dimensions , purity , in Bentham 's special sense , means the chance of a pleasure not leading to pains , or a pain not leading to pleasures , while the fecundity is the extent to which a pleasure breeds or leads to other pleasures or a pain to other pains . |
| 2 | More often diagnosis reveals untreatable disease or leads to misplaced attempts at therapy . |
| 3 | Silicon Graphics Inc 's Mips R4400-based server announcement this week will reportedly also include a new high-end Indigo workstation that goes to 100 SPECmarks and a new graphics subsystem that outperforms the current Reality Engine ( UX Nos 407 , 413 ) . |
| 4 | Quite apart from the bizarre situation of a bought log book and contact lenses , you have got to also measure the style of a fellow that goes to those lengths to do something he wants to do , and wants to do badly . |
| 5 | A sizable majority of respondents in each of the remaining categories , including local law societies , agreed that grants to individual clients should continue to be unlimited . |
| 6 | Fortunately , being a nurse , she had the built-in weakness for the sick that belongs to all nurses . |
| 7 | Ports , especially great ports , are never quite where they seem to be — a corner , a quay , the light filtering past funnels and masts on either side , there is always something that belongs to other places and other times . |
| 8 | But still this expression tells you ‘ what happened ’ only if you are at home in the special conceptual world that belongs to these situations . |
| 9 | The rankings range from 5 — ( Research quality that equates to attainable levels of international excellence in some sub-areas of activity and to attainable levels of national excellence in virtually all others ) - to 1 — ( Research quality that equates to attainable levels of national excellence in none , or virtually none , of the sub-areas of activity ) . |
| 10 | The rankings range from 5 — ( Research quality that equates to attainable levels of international excellence in some sub-areas of activity and to attainable levels of national excellence in virtually all others ) - to 1 — ( Research quality that equates to attainable levels of national excellence in none , or virtually none , of the sub-areas of activity ) . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it is likely that answers to these questions will be found over the next few years , and that by the end of the century we shall know whether string theory is indeed the long sought-after unified theory of physics . |
| 12 | He worked himself up into the kind of rage that leads to unforgivable things being said . |
| 13 | They point out that under the first-past-the-post system a small swing in votes tends to produce a major change in parliamentary strength so " exaggerating " a party 's lead in parliament in a way that leads to sharp swings in policy when there are only small shifts in voting and still more limited changes in public opinion . |
| 14 | A tradition that was based only on communication could not lead to the compulsive character that attaches to religious phenomena . |
| 15 | At least method 1 is independent of the units of measurement ( providing they are the same in both years ) but the equal weight that attaches to all commodities can give a misleading figure — if the price of matches falls by 50% and the price of coal rises by 50% the combined index indicates no change . |
| 16 | External regulation , at least in a form that applies to all citizens equally , is legitimate , but state intervention beyond that constitutes an illicit curtailment of individual freedom . |
| 17 | In the latter , it is ‘ public opinion ’ — ‘ a scattered discourse that in part belongs to each of the individuals of a society but of which none may claim ownership ’ — which underwrites the verisimilitude of the text , allows its relationship to its referent to be probable , necessary , and therefore true , and naturalizes its conventions : ‘ public opinion therefore functions as a rule of genre that relates to all genres . ’ |
| 18 | The only other occupational group that runs to double figures is made up of shop assistants ( 11 ) . |
| 19 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 20 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 21 | TRANSAID has helped SCF to secure an aircraft to fly relief workers and supplies to famine-stricken areas of Somalia , where continued fighting and looting make overland travel dangerous . |
| 22 | BRITISH planes could take part in an emergency mercy mission to parachute food and supplies to besieged Bosians in the east of the war-torn country . |
| 23 | Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate . |
| 24 | But elsewhere in Europe it lives on and refers to new ways of working with groups , especially those on the margins . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher takes these sessions seriously and goes to enormous lengths to prepare for them . |
| 26 | She 's decided she wants a cat , and goes to enormous lengths to persuade her reluctant parents to buy her one . |
| 27 | There are pros and cons to both options . |
| 28 | She did n't reply at once , but then said , ‘ There are pros and cons to both sides of the argument . |
| 29 | But a more complete understanding of the operation of and limits to parental rights in education requires a wider examination , of how the law deals with other areas where the interests of children , parents and the state are all in particularly sharp focus . |
| 30 | Significant involvement of third parties , which increases the potential for errors , reduces security , and leads to increased costs . |