Example sentences of "and [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limited liability means that the financial liability of each person responsible as a member of the business is fixed from the outset and limited to a fixed amount . |
| 2 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 3 | Roosevelt 's New Deal programme was an exercise in regulatory government and led to a major growth in regulation by administrative agencies . |
| 4 | A study in COLOMBIA found that an integrated service with proper medical back-up cost four times as much per person-year of protection as a straight female sterilisation drive and led to a wide-ranging cost-cutting exercise . |
| 5 | This impaired breeding activity and led to a complete ban on artificial feeding . |
| 6 | The failure of the Law Society to act effectively in dealing with complaints against a solicitor and respected member of the Council of The Law Society , Mr Glanville Davies , attracted enormous publicity and led to a complete breakdown of public confidence in the Law Society 's ability to regulate professional conduct . |
| 7 | The move was condemned by the trade unions as endangering jobs and led to a one-day general strike on March 28 . |
| 8 | Imports fell from December 's record £5.44 billion last month , but at £5.32 billion were still well ahead of exports and led to a visible trade deficit of £1.02 billion , the third-biggest ever . |
| 9 | This indirectly inspired the Victoria and Albert dockers to discuss setting up a rival organization to Tillett 's and led to a united campaign against the employers later in the month . |
| 10 | The re-emergence of feminism , which began as a flash of vision , and continued with an examination of the evils and gross distortions of patriarchy , and led to a whole variety of campaigns on behalf of women , now needs to concentrate on the differences between us as women which have divided us under patriarchy and which can not be allowed to divide us as feminists . |
| 11 | Also , the traumas of the Vietnam War and civil liberties clashes caused a crisis of confidence and led to a questioning frame of mind , which was ready for the idiosyncratic and difficult to interpret images made by Friedlander and his contemporaries . |
| 12 | AS Raith Rovers and Dunfermline confirmed their status as promotion favourites , St Mirren yesterday were still upset at a refereeing decision which virtually ended their hopes and led to a 2-1 defeat by Dumbarton . |
| 13 | The proximity of Tribschen to Basle obviously made contact easier , but it was undoubtedly Nietzsche 's new professional eminence that made it particularly welcome to Wagner and led to a rapid development of the relationship between the two . |
| 14 | Successful high-profile appeals of the Guildford Four , Birmingham Six , the Maguire family and the Tottenham Three have traumatised the criminal justice system and led to a Royal Commission , but they have not stopped the complaints . |
| 15 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 16 | She said action had already been taken under the new chief executive , Martin Gorham , which had dramatically improved call ringing times and led to a steady improvement in ambulance response times . |
| 17 | It sharpened body swerve , movement and anticipation , and led to an immediate improvement in results . |
| 18 | This marked the only occasion when a sequel won a Best Picture Academy Award and led to an ill-advised third instalment in 1991 . |
| 19 | Though in the statement it was mentioned that statistics from other countries were too unreliable to say that pro-divorce legislation increased the instability of marriages and led to an ever-increasing number of breakdowns , Archbishop McNamara was already preaching by 6 May that divorce ‘ makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for everyone ’ ( Irish Times , 7 May 1986 ) . |
| 20 | The case had received massive publicity and became symbolic of the institutionalized racism and brutality alleged by many to exist within the LAPD [ see pp. 38091 ; 38139 ] , and led to an independent commission of inquiry [ see pp. 38329-30 ] . |
| 21 | These deposits on the Barrier and Korosi volcanoes were contemporaneous with very high lake levels that occurred throughout the Kenya rift between about 12kyr and 7kyr ago , and correspond to a humid climate associated with the latest glacial-to-interglacial transition of stages 2 to 1 in the marine 18 O record . |
| 22 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 23 | Isolated cells were washed three times in Hank 's buffered salt solution ( Flow Laboratories , Irvine , Scotland ) , then suspended in culture medium and adjusted to a final concentration of 2×10 cells/ml . |
| 24 | McCredie and Horrox ( 1985 ) illustrated how children , who had lost one parent through divorce and adjusted to a lone-parent family , expressed anxiety and often outright resistance to any further changes , particularly remarriage of their parent/s . |
| 25 | Play eventually restarted , after what seemed like an age , and meandered to an early finish , but the freak accident served to relegate other matters — the remaining overs , a protracted row involving the England players and team manager and a cameraman attempting to capture the stretcher scene on film , and even the imminence of both countries announcing their World Cup squads — to items of secondary importance . |
| 26 | The upheaval in China 's 3m-strong People 's Liberation Army ( the PLA confusingly includes China 's air force and navy , too ) started in October , at the Communist Party 's 14th congress , and amounted to a political purge of the senior ranks . |
| 27 | Some of the information was unreliable and amounted to a considerable wastage in air dropped ordnance and flying hours by launching bombing and strafing missions over ‘ dead ’ jungle . |
| 28 | The following evidence was printed in summer 1800 , and refers to a public letter by Devismes which has not yet been traced : |
| 29 | Thus H-YRDN ( which is translated throughout the Bible as Jordan ) is not the name of a river but means the ‘ Ridge ’ and refers to a huge escarpment which dominates Asir and explains , says Salibi , why the Old Testament nowhere makes reference to the Jordan as a river . |
| 30 | Your call is free and goes to a central advisory unit rather than to your local Social Security office . |