Example sentences of "to a [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's reform of local authority finance is therefore likely to lead to a deterioration in local authority services , be they health , education or welfare . |
| 2 | Fourth , US juries are able to add an arbitrary amount to a ruling in punitive damages . |
| 3 | The subjects of Nietzsche 's two public lectures were already chosen by the time of his letter to Ritschl , as we can see from a letter to a friend in late September . |
| 4 | The recent case of a consultant convicted of attempted murder for administering a lethal injection of potassium chloride to a patient in intractable pain has highlighted the issue of pain that , contrary to expectation , does not respond to opiates . |
| 5 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 6 | the extent to which devolution had led to a change in personal level of job satisfaction ; |
| 7 | However , the method by which a change in predictable monetary growth leads to a change in aggregate real output is not the familiar one — a higher rate of growth does not fool people into supplying more output . |
| 8 | In order to assess the arguments over the variability of V it is necessary to see just how a change in money supply is transmitted through to a change in aggregate demand . |
| 9 | Due to a change in federal accounting standards , Unisys says , it would have been forced to take $700m in one-time charges against earnings if it did not cut the benefits , and that would wipe out one-third of the still debt-burdened company 's net worth . |
| 10 | It usually starts with short-term memory loss but may move to a change in actual social behaviour . |
| 11 | In general , the tax leads to a change in relative consumer prices ( ) . |
| 12 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 13 | The Spratly Islands were claimed by three ASEAN members — Brunei , Malaysia and the Philippines — and by China , Taiwan and Vietnam ; the dispute had come to a head in early 1992 after China and Vietnam awarded contracts separately to Western companies to drill for oil in the disputed archipelago [ see p. 38768 ] . |
| 14 | A massive industrial crisis came to a head in late 1991 and early 1992 with widespread industrial unrest in some areas as Spain began to restructure its loss-making steel , coal , shipbuilding and other sectors and withdraw subsidies in preparation for the EC single internal market in 1993 . |
| 15 | The strained relationship between prison governors and the Home Office Prison Department was overshadowed by the even more turbulent staff relations between management and prison officers which came to a head in widespread industrial action in 1978 . |
| 16 | He has argued that differences between British and Indian legal norms inevitably led to a divorce in Indian minds between justice and the colonial courts . |
| 17 | Thus , in the Keynesian model , a fall in aggregate demand leads to a fall in real income and reduces employment . |
| 18 | The move , which the Germans refused to discuss , reversed the outflow of funds and led to a fall in Finnish interest rates as the market opened yesterday . |
| 19 | This generated bottlenecks which in turn led to a fall in industrial production . |
| 20 | It says its had fewer visitors , and that in turn has led to a fall in essential income . |
| 21 | The strict out-door relief policy of the 1870s did not lead to a fall in total Poor Law expenditure . |
| 22 | On the other hand they are reluctant to reduce the dividend in response to a fall in distributable earnings . |
| 23 | This was attributed to reduced export demand because of falling output in trading partner countries and the strength of the franc , and to a fall in domestic demand because of the Gulf crisis . |
| 24 | St Andrew 's College is responsible for mounting a distance taught course leading to a Certificate in Religious Education for teachers who wish to teach Catholic children in Scotland . |
| 25 | It will lead to a Certificate in Computer-Mediated Communication Systems . |
| 26 | According to a poll in early 1991 Yel'tsin was already the most important Russian leader of the twentieth century , ahead of Lenin , Bukharin and ( a long way behind but with a similar rating ) Gorbachev and Trotsky . |
| 27 | On his admission to a policeman in civilian life no doubt that person would be convicted of rape . |
| 28 | But is it not necessary sometimes to inflict violence and is not killing the only course open to a man in certain circumstances ? |
| 29 | Arrived at the station , the daily travellers , dressed to a man in dark suits , white , stiff-collared shirts , and bowler or trilby hats , with their tightly furled umbrellas held as elegantly as they were able , would quickly assemble in their respective and habitual positions along the platform , for they knew exactly where ‘ their ’ compartment would come to rest . |
| 30 | We know , for instance , that a Social Class V woman ( or rather a woman married to a Social Class V man ) has less of a chance of having a healthy child who will reach adulthood than a woman who is married to a man in Social Class I. |