Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisation housed on the corner of Old Broad Street and Throgmorton Street has mercifully reverted to a name which accurately describes where it is and what it does . |
| 2 | Toxic-shock syndrome reached a peak in 1980 but has since declined to a stable level of about 25 a month . |
| 3 | This has made it difficult for Britain to compete on the world market , and this in turn has eventually led to a worse slump and level of unemployment than would otherwise have been the case had there been no political intervention in the working of the naturally self-regulating free economy of the market . |
| 4 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 5 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 6 | Britain has only agreed to a package of £65 billion a year . |
| 7 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 8 | I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs . |
| 9 | This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained . |
| 10 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) has concluded that the withdrawal of market participants has not led to a reduction in the quality of service or reduced liquidity or competitiveness in the market . |
| 11 | Does the Minister understand that the arrogance and insensitivity of his hon. Friend , who has not agreed to a meeting for about four months now , has been noted not just by Mr. Johnston but by every farmer in the north-east of Scotland ? |
| 12 | This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence . |
| 13 | The latest security report says installing cameras has finally led to a fall in car theft , but overall hospital crime rose 12.5% last year . |
| 14 | The answer seems to lie in facing up to the fact that one particular cycle or era has finally come to a close and therefore both personally and professionally it would be wiser to channel your energies into something new . |
| 15 | The company is currently operating eight sites and has just moved to a new office in South Normanton , Derbyshire . |
| 16 | The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox . |
| 17 | ANOTHER rugby season has just drawn to a close and many followers of the game in Ulster are asking questions about the future . |
| 18 | This has already contributed to a fall in households ' income gearing , which stood at 11.4 per cent in the second quarter compared with a peak of 12.9 per cent in the second quarter of last year . |
| 19 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 20 | By the time the train has reached them , it has already slowed to a crawl allowing a team of five officers to be at the trackside before the offenders know what has happened . |
| 21 | Whatever side is taken in this ongoing debate , however , it appears that knowledge of the ill effects of tobacco has already led to a modification in smoking behaviour among older men , particularly those in non-manual employment . |
| 22 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 23 | Woman to Woman was produced as both an exhibition and a book , it has already toured to a number of venue throughout the UK and is still available for hire through The Royal Photographic Society in Bath . |
| 24 | Monotype has already agreed to a 150p-a-share offer made by the US-based Pointplus . |
| 25 | A western management consultancy reports that one of its employees has already defected to a Hungarian company . |
| 26 | Erm , I am not aware , as I say , I 'm not aware that anybody in Tarmac has ever switched to a one , but I , I 'm , which I find quite remarkable , erm , but you can do it if you , if you feel the need to . |
| 27 | Clough has always marched to a different tune , but this time his perversity may finally be his undoing . |
| 28 | The increasing productivity of agriculture through the use of modern industrial methods has also led to a decline in traditional job opportunities in the countryside , and the government is keen to encourage more general diversification in the rural economy . |
| 29 | The project has also led to a small midwifery team being established at Wythenshawe Hospital to care for deaf parents . |
| 30 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |