Example sentences of "[det] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That led to warfare for about three months in our house .
2 In Sussex this species is largely confined to Chichester and Pagham Harbours , where a few remain to summer in many years , although totals of more than 50 are most unusual .
3 How does this relate to power in the public world of politics ?
4 This led to involvement in a wide range of speculative projects throughout Europe , North America , and the West Indies , and the huge resources at his disposal enabled him to embark on a vigorous attempt to secure control over the affairs of the East India Company .
5 This led to imprisonment after which he sought greater freedom in America .
6 The lower limit of TL dating of sediment is closely linked with uncertainty about how far the sediment was bleached in antiquity , and this led to development of the optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL ) technique .
7 This led to insubordination amongst the Seventh Infantry who attacked the Governor and wounded one of the officers who accompanied him .
8 This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations .
9 Freeman suggested that this refers to participation in a ceremony of confirmation at Southampton in 1016 , or to Cnut 's coronation by Archbishop Lyfing in 1017 .
10 This refers to disorder on a widespread scale , and the officer should take into account not merely his own resources , but those that can be made available to him through the use of the mutual aid provisions of the Police Act 1964 .
11 Transferring attention to coordinates at 45° to the x- and y-directions shows that this corresponds to anisotropy of the turbulence — different intensities in different directions .
12 None of this added to confidence in the authorities , reassurances about safety .
13 All this came to mind on sight of a communication from , of all places , Customs & Excise Debt Management Division Branch 4 ( Insolvency Branch ) .
14 This came to light on Aug. 7 after the collapse of a fourth round of negotiations on exchange rates between the East German Economics Minister Gerhard Pohl and the then Czechoslovak Foreign Trade Minister Slavomir Stracar .
15 This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations .
16 This came to fruition in 1982 with the laying of track taking place ( left ) .
17 Insurance companies may collaborate in working out loss probabilities and this leads to uniformity in premium rates .
18 This leads to loss of time , and synonyms are the reason that algorithmically addressed files give a slower response than self-indexing files ; home records are retrieved just as quickly .
19 And so in the mother church , there is a call to be pioneers again in new areas , and not to settle back , and this leads to growth in faith as people learn to call out to God again .
20 This leads to ambiguity of two kinds .
21 The genetic instability of the cloned wild type hsd genes in pBR322 in a rec A + background suggests that the increased production of the Eco K endonuclease from pBR322 is detrimental to the cell and this leads to deletion of the genes from pBR322 .
22 The fault , if it is a fault , lies in the Interpretation Act 1978 Sch 1 , which states that for legal purposes a ‘ month ’ means a calendar month , and this applies to legislation since 1850 .
23 This applies to protection from rain and other water sources .
24 Electrophysiological techniques have revealed units within the optic lobe mediating different visual functions : some respond to movement of small parts of the visual field , others react to long , contrasting boundaries moving in a preferred direction ; some subtend monocular visual fields , others cover the whole receptive area of both eyes , and so on .
25 Some went to town on Bolivia 's planetary responsibility , warning that such barbarian customs would eventually lead to the flooding of New York and Miami and the extinction of the human race .
26 This relates to depreciation of capital assets and payments in lieu of depreciation .
27 This relates to autonomy in that creativity may flourish in freedom , but the two goals are not necessarily found in the same person ( creativity ) .
28 What is is this come to light after the event as it were or did you know that was there when we were redoing the machine ?
29 By this stage the airlines had been able to restore a basic service by recruiting new pilots , persuading pilots out of retirement and persuading some to return to work on individual contracts .
30 Publications now abound which aim to develop ‘ ways of supporting the kind of school that ’ , with Hegarty ( 1987 ) , ‘ provides for each according to need as part of its normal provision , perceives special provision as an integral part of the whole ’ , and aims to prevent learning difficulties ( Booth et al 1987 ) instead of just reacting to them .
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