Example sentences of "[det] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This results in a common word like " History " being assigned a weight which is very low compared with that assigned to a rare word such as " swords " . |
| 2 | I think that to go to a full service that is actually what 's moving , go back again is actually just confusing the people . |
| 3 | That amounted to a separate and independent cause of action . |
| 4 | That points to a possible cause of friction within the Major gang . |
| 5 | That points to an annual rate of 310% . |
| 6 | In fact , if it were n't for the big blue logo and Oli Frey pic on the cover , there 'd be little to indicate to an early reader that this was indeed the same mag ! |
| 7 | We devote $300m of research and development expenditure exclusively to the systems division , which has annual revenues of $2,360m : that corresponds to an respectable level of 12% . ’ |
| 8 | Instead , properties would be placed in one of eight broad bands each relating to a national average value . |
| 9 | And perhaps this is this goes to a wider point of what 's the magic of the definition of Greater York area ? |
| 10 | It angered her that he appeared to think this amounted to a great concession . |
| 11 | In the case of Nos. 13 , 25 , 34 and 35 , this amounted to a complete rebuild , including strengthened solebars . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This led to a substantial increase in platelet cholesterol concentration , the bulk of this increase being associated with the platelet membrane . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Together with overgrazing by overstocking , this led to a serious and continuing degradation of the land . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Ministers also hoped that employers would cut out overmanning and root out inefficiency , even if this led to a temporary surge in unemployment . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | According to Koenig , this led to a month-long orgy involving virgins and she-asses garlanded for the occasion . |