Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study of patients with FAP has led to a greater awareness of the importance of family history in apparently sporadic colorectal cancer . |
| 2 | TROUBLED Graeme Hick has turned to a shrink to help break his Test hoodoo in India this winter . |
| 3 | ROBERT Hall 's love affair with Rolls-Royces has come to a temporary halt . |
| 4 | Her eyes on where to place her feet , she failed to notice that Travis had come to a halt , and cannoned right into him . |
| 5 | Edward had gone to a meeting of the local ornithological society . |
| 6 | Edward had agreed to a time-limit before . |
| 7 | The WCA magazine Ceufad has changed to a tabloid format . |
| 8 | But then , as far as I am concerned , the Archbishop is the nearest thing the Church of England has got to a superstar . |
| 9 | In April he and Constanze had moved to a smaller , less fashionable apartment on the Landstrasse , and Constanze was once again pregnant . |
| 10 | Ireland had crashed to a 145-90 defeat at the hands of the English losing out on all six rinks , and looked to have little chance when they took on the Scots , who had beaten defending champions Wales 130-100 in their opener . |
| 11 | Gore had gone to a house in Bath to stay the night with friends . |
| 12 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 13 | For it had been when Ryan had died , three years ago now , that the situation between her and Jake had come to a head . |
| 14 | But in 1795 and 1796 , after seeking the answers to his problems from Godwin 's book and finding none , Wordsworth had come to a full stop : he had become ‘ Sick , wearied out with contrarieties ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 900–1 ) and finally ‘ yielded up moral questions in despair ’ . |
| 15 | The outbreak of war in January had led to a sharp reduction in oil supplies from Iraq . |
| 16 | Throughout the tenth and eleventh centuries the Counts of Anjou had belonged to a group of princes who were alternately enemies and allies in the struggle for land and power in northern and western Gaul . |
| 17 | The report further claimed that the deteriorating security situation in Sind had led to a large flow of capital and industry out of Karachi , Pakistan 's largest city and a major port , during January and February . |
| 18 | By 1960 Sartre had progressed to a radical " post-communist " phase in his thinking , a phase which coincided exactly with Nizan 's " pre-communist " phase in Aden . |
| 19 | Over the years a niggling rivalry has been much in evidence between the two clubs , although Whaddon have progressed to a much higher standard of football . |
| 20 | The space agencies of the United States , Russia , Europe , Japan , China and Brazil have agreed to a joint programme which will use both existing and new satellites to monitor changes in the global environment . |
| 21 | Er , the European project goes on and for many of the newer generations in this place , it 's not longer an article of faith er but a part of the political landscape that has to be dealt with on merit and it 's all the more ludicrous therefore Mr Deputy Speaker , that the Conservatives ' internal divisions over Maastricht have led to a situation where candidates for the ever more important European elections are only now being selected in certain seats , just fourteen weeks before the election . |
| 22 | The price tag of almost £100m , and the fact that Fuji has agreed to a minority stake , has clearly also provided Mr Branson with reassurance — if he needed any — that taking Virgin private last year was the right thing to do . |
| 23 | In view of the difficulties experienced in practice , representation by the profession to the DSS has led to a review of the legislation . |
| 24 | The introduction of the Mental Health Specific Grant has led to a 30 per cent increase in spending on mental health services , according to the SSI . |
| 25 | A WORRYING increase in suicides in Teesdale has led to a swift response from The Samaritans . |
| 26 | Mrs Leyshon told the court how she and Stokle had gone to a house in Staunton to meet Evans and Stroud . |
| 27 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 28 | On August 28 , 1990 , he and Miss Jeannette had driven to a secluded spot where they had begun to make love but Nichol was unable . |
| 29 | Foinavon had reduced to a canter and he jumped the fence off his hocks like a show jumper . |
| 30 | On the issue of financial compensation for countries unable to sustain the economic costs of applying sanctions , it was reported on Aug. 22 that Jordan faced direct costs of $1,500 million and indirect costs of $500 million in 1990 , and that the UN had agreed to a special compensation package ( thought to amount to some $240 million ) . |