Example sentences of "and [verb] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sharpened body swerve , movement and anticipation , and led to an immediate improvement in results . |
| 2 | This marked the only occasion when a sequel won a Best Picture Academy Award and led to an ill-advised third instalment in 1991 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 7 | All files which did not concern terrorism , espionage or organized crime would be removed from police hands and given to an independent body , and people would be able to obtain photocopies of their files ( and by the deadline of March 31 , 350,000 people had applied ) . |
| 8 | Subjects not studied at school can be taken up and pursued to an advanced level . |
| 9 | But they are currently going through one of the worst spells in their history and slumped to an all-time low last Sunday , losing 3–0 at home to fellow relegation strugglers Drogheda United . |
| 10 | But Prince has floated free of grassroots or use value , and ascended to an aristocratic , aerial domain of licence and luxury — where he 's instigated a promiscuous chaos of stylistic miscegenation . |
| 11 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 12 | They went up a long hill and came to an imposing arched entrance . |
| 13 | Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden . |
| 14 | As all the alarming possibilities ran through her head , she gave a loud gulp and came to an abrupt halt . |
| 15 | The car ahead of them squealed to a halt , crashed backwards across the road into a stone wall , and came to an abrupt stop . |
| 16 | She carried the glass back to the sitting-room , and came to an abrupt stop when she saw Luke standing by the window , reading the paper , which she 'd left open at the horoscopes . |
| 17 | If the pulses marked with arrows in Fig. 7 are isolated from the others and applied to an appropriate low pass filter , the output is a DC or slowly varying voltage whose magnitude and polarity model the external field . |
| 18 | This requires the completion of a substantial piece of work which can be of either a practical or research nature , prepared within a strict timetable and documented and presented to an appropriate professional standard . |
| 19 | One local politician in London ( Taylor , 1973 ) was driven to reflect on the need to preserve identity and to design to an intimate human scale . |
| 20 | The process is expected to make paper continuously available and to lead to an annual $5 million saving in hard currency . |
| 21 | This was performed by radiolabelling the food and monitoring its reflux with a small directional gamma detector , which was placed externally over the oesophagus , and connected to an ambulatory data recorder . |
| 22 | When the caravan stopped they were dragged out and transferred to an open truck . |
| 23 | The court heard earlier about the collapse of 14-month-old Kayley Desmond , who was successfully revived and transferred to an intensive care unit in Nottingham . |
| 24 | The 12 points may be identified and copied to an adjoining layer ( to aid clarity ) or operated directly in the original view . |
| 25 | The increased ionisation along the earth 's lines of magnetic force make them more conductive and leads to an increased current flow with consequent rise in magnetic flux levels . |
| 26 | The original geological maps , which will be described in more detail below , were prepared only as single-copy manuscripts , making access for researchers outside Edinburgh more difficult , and leading to an unintentional positive discrimination in favour of locally-based students . |
| 27 | ‘ My bank manager said ‘ This is the best cash flow presentation I 've seen ’ and agreed to an extra £50,000 on my overdraft ’ ( S J Franklin , Cheltenham ) |
| 28 | Cover the entire surface with your chosen filling and transfer to an oiled baking sheet . |
| 29 | Nutty arrived on time , thudding out of the dusk and pulling to an abrupt halt . |
| 30 | But I did n't because I quickly discovered that I was even more fundamentally opposed to unnecessary pain — and resorted to an epidural anaesthetic . |