Example sentences of "that [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the stresses that led to admission may be encountered again . |
| 2 | It is believed that the sequence of events that led to core damage involved equipment malfunctions , design-related problems , and human errors , all of which contributed in varying degrees to the accident ( US NUREG-0600 , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | A Drysdale could argue that it was the repression of sex that led to insanity . |
| 4 | Similarly , there is no way of knowing whether it was Cumbernauld 's highly segregated traffic arrangements that led to casualty rates some 30 per cent below the national average for built-up areas . |
| 5 | In the early 1960s the king became a major actor in the events that led to independence for his country in 1968 . |
| 6 | On the ceiling a procession of blessed souls ascended the ladder that led to Heaven , on one wall St. George thrust his spear into the belly of a squirming dragon , and on another St. Catherine was being roasted on a wheel . |
| 7 | ‘ The housing market remains depressed and confidence has taken a severe blow from the turmoil in the foreign exchange markets that led to sterling 's suspension from the ERM . ’ |
| 8 | Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript . |
| 9 | Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript . |
| 10 | Pop stars and society hostesses in S and M games that led to death . |
| 11 | The ones that led to death are obviously not with us . |
| 12 | It was not so much Jacobite principle that led to Nonjurism , but rather a sincerely held belief about the inviolable nature of oaths . |
| 13 | the existence of coal , iron ore and a large population assisted the economies , but that large population meant that it was necessary to import from overseas quantities of food at an ever increasing cost , particularly as Europe suffered a succession of bad harvests , at that time , and that led to emigration overseas , mainly to the United States of America . |
| 14 | City fans are still livid over the clash with Bull that led to skipper Steve Walsh 's sending off in the 3-0 defeat at Molineux three weeks ago . |
| 15 | The patient 's partner should be involved in such discussion , if appropriate , but particularly if the main problems that led to referral centre on this relationship . |
| 16 | These two cases are similar : both middle-aged women with long histories of dyspeptic symptoms that led to laparotomy and the finding of granulomatous lymphadenitis , and subsequently they were found to have H pylori-associated chronic gastritis . |
| 17 | Rejecting that conclusion , the Scottish Court of Session said that if the unfavourable treatment included a significant sexual element to which a person of the opposite sex would not have been vulnerable , that amounted to discrimination . |
| 18 | Lorimer was the name that sprung to mind as well as a match for Sterland but then I suppose he was n't a defender . |
| 19 | She said she 'd rather have had some lilac bathsalts , the sort that crumpled to silk in the water . |
| 20 | My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . |
| 21 | Certainly scarcely any of the responses that referred to permeation discussed the difficulties of the concept with any sophistication . |
| 22 | It was not particularly large or splendid , and yet it had a warmth and charm and dignity about it that appealed to Charity immediately . |
| 23 | As Gerald Thomas told me : ‘ Our success appeared to be based on the demise of the British music hall , the slightly lavatorial humour that appealed to father and son alike — and to the fact that people knew what they were getting , like Heinz baked beans or Lux toilet soap . ’ |
| 24 | It was a christening that seemed to hunger for significance . |
| 25 | He had got restlessly to his feet and was leaning over the green wooden railing that came to waist height at the edge of the veranda , but after a suppressed exclamation he wheeled to face his sister again . |
| 26 | It does indeed seem that the taboo on wives working was still operating among the generation that came to maturity at the time of the Great War . |
| 27 | Prior to World War II working class couples made use of judicial separation machinery rather than divorce , but the number of informal separations was undoubtedly larger than the number that came to court . |
| 28 | And while I , I was there last year , erm , there was er , a case that came to court , about a man who 'd installed a ceiling fan in his kitchen . |
| 29 | The latest Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society resolves a question that came to light in the days of Lord Rayleigh , who showed how an idealised object called a black body radiates heat and light energy . |
| 30 | Among the unexpected aspects that came to light was this situation with regard to individual help . |