Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The medical and sociological advances of the twentieth-century have led to many infectious diseases being eliminated or rendered relatively harmless . |
| 2 | The latter has led to serious distortions in the administration of justice which are argued at some length in Chapters 7 and 9 . |
| 3 | His own break with Rome in the 1530s had led to strenuous efforts to persuade his nephew James V to do likewise , and to desert France for England . |
| 4 | The same has happened to American pears . |
| 5 | At the same time , the effects of inflation , the recession and financial cutbacks in other services in the 1980s have led to increased poverty amongst this vulnerable group in society . |