Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] to some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has come to some tentative conclusions about the relationship between the quality of argument and computer software . |
| 2 | The possibility offered by rapid electronic communication across networks has led to some other new ways of collaborating in science , through bulletin boards and other e-mail techniques , some of which are direct analogues of personal communication and others resemble publication pathways . |
| 3 | This emphasis was clearly crucial to the emerging discipline of linguistics , but has led to some strange distortions . |
| 4 | One might conclude that while the removal of mandatory fees has led to some short-term reduction in charges and a decline in unemployment amongst architects , the continuing controls over training places may result in shortages and fees rising again . |
| 5 | Present-day computer or digital organs incorporate new and complex technology , and this has led to some impressive developments . |
| 6 | It 's an important issue , and has led to some serious misunderstandings about the teaching of drama . |
| 7 | Travelling the celebrity circuit has led to some fascinating encounters with certain household names including two sessions with the top talk-show man of his time , Terry Wogan . |
| 8 | The different police forces share their information and that has led to some proposed gatherings being stopped . |
| 9 | This has led to some unlikely liaisons . |
| 10 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 11 | Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had . |
| 12 | The attention focussed on the to infinitive has led to some important generalizations . |
| 13 | It has led to some funny situations , with irate daughters saying ‘ my mother would n't do a thing like that ! ’ . ’ |
| 14 | When ‘ PURPLE ’ has yielded to some new variation on Silk Cut 's eternal thematics , and when the airline traveller with egg on his face has faded from the public consciousness on which it will have so briefly impinged , Magritte 's images will still be there , mysterious and self-sufficient . |
| 15 | The landscape seems to belong to some bare planet closer to the sun than earth , and the passions of its people match that glaring heat . |
| 16 | When the campanile is seen from a distance , it seems to belong to some strange Expressionist church one has not noticed before . |
| 17 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 18 | And where a work appears to refer to some external reality ( where the flowers seem , as it were , to be present ) the Formalists would regard this as a mere side-effect of the aesthetic function . |
| 19 | It 's a possibility that it 's related to some existing thought you 'd had . |