Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Tories plan to reduce manpower by an average of 20pc across the three services they remain committed to several important new orders . |
| 2 | A review of offshore banks was also started and was expected to lead to several banks losing their licences to operate . |
| 3 | The company has written to several hundred people living near its acrylics production area informing them of the possibility . |
| 4 | From its original base in Woolwich , it has expanded to several locations in south east London , each offering a wide range of teaching and recreational facilities in attractive surroundings . |
| 5 | A LEADING environmental scientist — who has contributed to several television documentaries on green issues — today called on the Department of Marine in Dublin to investigate the mysterious deaths of a number of swans at Mulroy Bay in Co Donegal . |
| 6 | The example of the installation at Edinburgh has led to several million dollars ' worth of business which , according to Meiko , would have been much harder to obtain without a such a proof of cost-effectiveness . |
| 7 | This is a very real cause of accidents and has led to several fatalities in recent times . |
| 8 | In the UK there is no equivalent , though the spate of disasters in the past 4 years ( involving over 1000 lives lost ) has led to several calls for such a national body to be established . |
| 9 | This conflict has led to several recent wars . |
| 10 | This has led to several misjudgements as to cause and effect . |
| 11 | Growing publicity over ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 12 | Growing publicity over the subject of Durham Ambulance response times to the area has led to several people contacting Teesdale councillors with their own stories of delays . |
| 13 | For all the first-glance goriness that has led to several bans , Jim Rose 's surreal sideshow is too fantastical and funny to be taken seriously , says Craig McLean |
| 14 | In 1969 the first world conference of Ayrshire breeders was held in Toronto , and today the breed has spread to several African countries , Malta , Iran , Sri Lanka and Burma as well as North and South America and a dozen European countries . |
| 15 | The temperance movement has spread to several other states . |
| 16 | Violence has spread to several other US cities . |
| 17 | I have had to minister to several who have felt oppressed by their connection with freemasonry . |
| 18 | For most people , a love of animals tends to extend to several pets , the odd donation and perhaps a rally . |
| 19 | The woman took the money — understood to amount to several thousand pounds — to a pre-arranged drop-off point and handed it over to a member of the gang . |
| 20 | I am not sure how the law-breaking campaign is working or whether other companies would have joined B & Q , but the chief executive of my council felt that he was not in a position to commit the poll tax payers of Hull to what could have amounted to several million pounds , and a deal was finally struck that Hull city council would refrain from taking out an injunction and the cross-undertaking was therefore withdrawn . |
| 21 | Almost everyone there was a member of a guild , and since the population can hardly have exceeded 1,000 some people must have belonged to several . |
| 22 | Moreover , cost-push writers tend to subscribe to several versions of the same basic hypothesis at one and the same time . |
| 23 | This reluctance to share information is alleged to have led to several disasters where information was not passed to the right people in time , and where one organisation arrested the informants of another by accident . |
| 24 | They had also confirmed that the affair with David Parkin had been a public secret on the programme for several months , and that Nicola had whispered to several people that she had been promised Jane Pargeter 's job by Blufton . |
| 25 | As the appointed time approached , the company which had assembled under the clear blue sky had risen to several hundred strong , and was now deployed in five neat rows on the warm tarmac . |
| 26 | I 've spoken to several of the barmen , explaining our dilemma , and elicited a promise that if a couple answering to the description of Svend and your sister put in an appearance and are conversing in English the man shall be discreetly asked if he is Svend Eriksen and , if so , requested to get in touch with me . |
| 27 | And from the way the staff greeted her she was obviously a regular there ; she had to chat to several before taking a glass of wine to a booth towards the front out of Maxim 's sight . |
| 28 | In the ensuing raid by our officers , who had been tipped off about the smuggling run , a pitched battle between our men and the smugglers had led to several amusing incidents , related to us by local officers . |
| 29 | The most important point at issue was the tactic of infiltration which had led to several splits in the American Socialist Workers ' Party , the dominant group in Trotsky 's Fourth International . |
| 30 | A mutiny over pay arrears had spread to several sections of the armed forces by the end of July , sparked off by troops of the Nyanga Battalion who erected road-blocks in the Manhica area . |