Example sentences of "and [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the fish are well on feed I will put one rod away and change to a butt-indicator which allows me to fish more quickly and efficiently . |
| 2 | But the commission accepts that since the simple offence would cover deliberate foolishness which caused cost and inconvenience but which did not damage property or seek dishonest gain , the penalty should be modest and limited to a maximum of three months ' imprisonment . |
| 3 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | An executive President would be head of state ; holders of this office would in future be elected directly for a maximum term of five years and limited to a maximum of two such terms . |
| 6 | The head of state is the executive President , elected directly for a maximum term of five years and limited to a maximum of two such terms . |
| 7 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 8 | The decree prompted the cartels to declare ‘ total war ’ on the Colombian government and led to a wave of bombings throughout the country . |
| 9 | In Oxfordshire , smoke from burning staw obscured roads and led to a pile-up . |
| 10 | Veterinary examination revealed the true identity of the horse and led to a spell in Maidstone jail for Willett . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Soviet figure was 10 per cent higher than the previous calculation — much more than expected — and led to a flurry of checks on the accuracy of similar calculations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This impaired breeding activity and led to a complete ban on artificial feeding . |
| 16 | In fact this exercise was undertaken for the whole school , and led to a number of improvements to the programme in all year groups . |
| 17 | A sharp rise in 1898 — 9 resulted in increases in the wages offered miners , and led to a general , if temporary , wave of prosperity for Sinhalese labourers , for other employers were obliged to follow suit . |
| 18 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 19 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 20 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 21 | With Windows NT still a gleam in Bill Gates ' eye , OS/2 2.0 can lay claim to the goodness high ground , and it is difficult to see what more IBM could have done to make it electable — its erstwhile friends would say that it has cynically ditched all its principles — of closed systems , tight central control , the whole ‘ nanny knows best and you 'd better believe it ’ ethos that served the company so well for so long , and led to a string of successes at the ballot box in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 22 | Roosevelt 's New Deal programme was an exercise in regulatory government and led to a major growth in regulation by administrative agencies . |
| 23 | While her letter galvanized sixty Members of Parliament to draft a motion ‘ deploring the manner in which Lady Diana Spencer is being treated by the media ’ and led to a meeting between editors and the Press Council , the siege of Coleherne Court continued . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After two years designing murals for Wimpey , the construction company , he took a teaching post that enticed him back into the photography world , and led to a post-graduate degree at the Royal College . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lady Grubb 's invitations to them were always by letter , and led to a file of correspondence because she enjoyed making microscopic changes of plan . |
| 28 | In the event , the coup discredited the draft treaty and led to a series of declarations of republican independence which , by the end of the year , had brought about the demise of the USSR as such . |
| 29 | Two major disasters , costing ninety-four lives , provoked an unprecedented public outcry and led to a series of punitive measures against British clubs and their supporters . |
| 30 | At the economic level , prices of strategic raw materials soared and led to a rise in cash earnings : in Africa and Asia , large numbers of people acquired a certain purchasing power and savings . |