Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 2 | During the pre-Campaign Wave , visits by Thatcher to Moscow and Kinnock to Washington naturally led to intense television coverage of defence issues . |
| 3 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 4 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 5 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 6 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 7 | In order to find examples of such an antithetical state of affairs they naturally turned to primitive society , as they assumed , like many before and after them , that these societies would offer illustrations of systems as totally different to those they knew as could be found anywhere . |
| 8 | Nu and Aung San only grew to early manhood in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 9 | Only listened to classical music on the radio or her beloved Chopin on the gramophone . |
| 10 | In nine of these cases it was the added development of gastrointestional symptoms that finally led to small bowel biopsy and the diagnosis of coeliac disease . |
| 11 | While Treitschke demonstrates how economic union in the Zollverein finally led to German unity under Prussian hegemony , it is not clear that there was necessarily any kind of secret agenda from the outset , rather , the natural pre-eminence of Prussia combined with other historical events beyond her control . |
| 12 | On Nov. 23 , 1989 , the deputy director of Moscow 's Institute for Europe told an audience in London that the Soviet Union no longer aspired to global superpower status and was now just a " major European power " , and in Izvestiya on Jan. 19 , 1990 , Shevardnadze advocated the gradual establishment of " a European confederation … of equal nations , whose borders are recognized as unshakeable constraints " . |
| 13 | Interestingly , it has been argued that within the Soviet Union itself the key date in terms of the development of socialist realism was not 1934 but 1936 , the moment at which Stalin finally acceded to full power , the moment of the Stalinist " purges " , the moment when the " nationalist " theses of Zhdanov came to the fore , coinciding with Stalin 's own preferred thesis of " socialism in one country " . |
| 14 | The Terminator is terminated — by a fellow machine , properly subordinated to human control — while Sarah , already pregnant by Reese with John Connor , survives . |
| 15 | The emotions raised by the events quickly led to considerable confusion in the media and Stormont about just who did what . |
| 16 | Nearly two-thirds of the drawings are English , mainly Victorian , and Pre-Raphaelite , including a large tempera and oil ‘ Saint Barbara ’ by Burne-Jones that once belonged to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , a Ruskin watercolour of the sun-drenched cathedral of Sens , and a bellowing stag by Landseer , with earlier works by Romney , Rowlandson , Varley and Cotman . |
| 17 | He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick . |
| 18 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 19 | A number of authorities also resorted to creative accountancy — technical accounting adjustments which maximize financial benefits in the authority 's favour-as a means of ‘ spending above the rate-capping spending level ’ . |
| 20 | The emigration also led to worldwide adaption of European concepts , even in Japan and China . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire also referred to cold weather payments . |
| 22 | The growth of experimental science , with the new technology of the microscope and the more rigid principles of research established in the laboratory , also contributed to medical ascendancy within social policy . |
| 23 | Friends of the Earth , also opposed to nuclear power , wants to see coal mines saved because of concern about the fate of mining communities , an issue on which Greenpeace does not express a view , preferring to stick to environmental issues . |
| 24 | The EC also pledged to double aid to the Palestinians and to open a permanent office in the territories . |
| 25 | Another small stream , also put to good use , was the Soudley Brook , sometimes referred to as the Forge Brook , which rises at Bilston Green and was used to take water away from the old iron workings . |
| 26 | He also wrote to Prime Minister John Major protesting at the recent Durham County Council decision to close eight of its homes . |
| 27 | It also spread to neighbouring Variety Cars , destroying a portable office building . |
| 28 | Observers also pointed to Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov 's demands in June for extended powers [ see p. 38272 ] and to the closed sitting of the USSR Supreme Soviet on June 17 , when Marshall Dimitry Yazov , Boris Pugo and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov respectively Defence Minister , International Affairs Minister and KGB Chair , supported these demands , Kryuchkov warning of continued danger from United States intelligence agencies . |
| 29 | Henceforth each successive royal election provoked party conflicts and personal intrigues which often led to civil war , as well as pressure and even forcible intervention from abroad on behalf of competing candidates . |
| 30 | With them is Basil D'Oliveira , whose inclusion in an England squad originally led to sporting isolation for South Africa . |