Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alone , she reached out and clung to the wooden balustrade . |
| 2 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In effect it was a return to the conditions of mid-Silurian times , with a corresponding decrease in provincialism , but it lasted longer and led to the fantastic flowering of the Frasnian reefs . |
| 17 | Their later work looked at the smoking habits and health of doctors and led to the crucial evidence that those who stopped smoking eventually lost their increased risk of lung cancer . |
| 18 | From AD 312 ‘ indiction cycles ’ of fifteen years ' duration were introduced by the Emperor Constantine for taxation purposes and led to the Byzantine year being reckoned from 1 September , the date on which each year of an indiction cycle began . |
| 19 | Although the requirement of intervention in the nasal oxygen group was halved , the most extreme example of hypoxia occurred in this group and led to the only termination of the procedure . |
| 20 | The Swiss yearning for independence was soon aflame throughout the cantons , and led to the famous Confederation . |
| 21 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 22 | The dollar crisis and the abandonment of the Gold Standard signalled the beginning of the end of the dollar bloc and led to the inevitable American withdrawal from Vietnam . |
| 23 | The collapse of this organisation created a multitude of problems and led to the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union as a unitary superpower . |
| 24 | It sharpened body swerve , movement and anticipation , and led to an immediate improvement in results . |
| 25 | This marked the only occasion when a sequel won a Best Picture Academy Award and led to an ill-advised third instalment in 1991 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |