Example sentences of "this [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This goes to some trouble to refute the idea that population growth is desirable and will not cause ecological damage . |
| 2 | In a national Sunday paper market of around 20 million , this amounted to 1.1 million ‘ certain' sales every week . |
| 3 | This amounted to 1.3 per cent of the RHA 's annual revenue in 1981–2 , and ‘ about seventeen months of its [ then ] current capital expenditure ’ . |
| 4 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 5 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 6 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 7 | Since he was practising alternative medicine under the guise of orthodox medicine the committee believed that he had misled his patients and that this amounted to professional misconduct . |
| 8 | The Court held that this amounted to good service in accordance with the Convention ( read with a Belgium-Luxembourg agreement made under the 1954 Hague Convention ) but also that service of the notice of appeal was validly completed by the posting of the notice as required by internal Luxembourg law . |
| 9 | This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 . |
| 10 | This amounted to 10.9 per cent of Israel 's overall export of goods . |
| 11 | This led to increasing criticism of the ineffectiveness of crime prevention and of the accepted forms of penal treatment as well as of the philosophy underlying them . |
| 12 | This led to frenzied buying orders . |
| 13 | This led to young players being drafted into top-class soccer before their abilities had had time to mature . |
| 14 | During the Twenties , following the neglect of the First World War period , three-quarters of the Blackpool tram track had to be relaid , and this led to extensive disruption of services and vocal criticisms of the Tramway Department . |
| 15 | The rise in English textile manufacturing was accompanied by changes in its location , and this led to major alterations in the geographical distribution of wealth within the country . |
| 16 | This led to complex debate between the USA and the Soviet Union about what the terms of the treaty really meant , and to acrimonious dispute between the US Congress and the President over the meaning of various key phrases . |
| 17 | This led to serious confrontations in steel , coal and the railways , on which the government had a major influence . |
| 18 | Moreover there was no infallible way of telling how long ago the hardener had hen put in ; With the usual frailty of human nature this led to all sorts of mistakes . |
| 19 | This led to Unionist accusations that the SDLP was boycotting the process ; however , the Ulster Unionist Party announced on May 29 that it was also withdrawing until Brooke cleared up the procedural issues . |
| 20 | This led to forced feedings of turkeys , and , after being voided , resultant germination of seeds of the tree which was on the verge of extinction , though this may have been exacerbated by the depredations of introduced monkeys , which take unripe fruits . |
| 21 | This led to two main developments . |
| 22 | This led to two problems : is there then any space from which a critique can be established ? and how does Foucault reformulate the relation of writing to history ? |
| 23 | This led to two one act operas to texts written by David Pountney with piano accompaniment for Scottish Opera 's school tours . |
| 24 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 25 | This led to sharp antagonism towards the full launch of assessment at 7 in 1991 . |
| 26 | This led to careful study of the school 's management structure and its labelling as the ‘ collaborative school management cycle ’ . |
| 27 | He had accepted membership of the royal commission on contagious diseases — the first working man ever to be appointed in this capacity — but this led to fierce opposition from within the union 's executive , and Applegarth resigned in April 1871 . |
| 28 | This led to fundamental inadequacies in the Comintern approach , which were graphically demonstrated by its relationship with the nationalist leader Sandino of Nicaragua , who fought against a US occupation force from 1927 to 1934 . |
| 29 | This led to intense interdepartmental rivalry and antagonism , most clearly visible in repeated clashes between the Ministry of finance and the Ministry of the Interior . |
| 30 | Although this led to Greek mathematics being dominated by geometry , time was no less an important element in early Pythagorean thought . |