Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 2 | Although this led to Greek mathematics being dominated by geometry , time was no less an important element in early Pythagorean thought . |
| 3 | As all these procedures were carried out by two endoscopists ( IRS and SGB ) we do not consider that this led to significant bias . |
| 4 | Several noted that policy makers were far away from the frontier in their organisations and that this led to obvious difficulties in making effective policies for work with young people at risk . |
| 5 | Ernest Protheroe in his Railways of the World , published in 1914 , reported that this led to considerable language difficulties : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In claims that one tradition rather than another led to scientific innovation , one often detects an apologetic intention . |
| 9 | Drudy and Drudy ( 1979 ) , in a study of north Norfolk , found that 31 per cent of their survey group aspired to professional and intermediate non-manual jobs and that a further 31 per cent aspired to other non-manual jobs , so that little more than one-third aspired to manual work . |
| 10 | Kenyatta and Ahidjo were nationalists first , and localists second although both went to great lengths to secure their political base amongst their own ethnic group . |
| 11 | One of the consequences of the difficult situation in schools and the low pay was that many teachers left the profession , even to work in the informal labour sector , and some moved to other countries . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The teacher demonstrated shadow animals using hands , and this led to further experiment with shadows . |
| 15 | In 1672 Haines obtained a patent for a new method of cleaning trefoil so as to improve the seed , and this led to public controversy with Caffyn , who was himself a local farmer , jealous of Haines 's influence with local notables , and convinced that patents were unchristian and patentees covetous . |
| 16 | This strange rare and peculiar led to Nitric Acid which covered everything , I gave the 6c potency since again I did n't have the LM and after 4 weeks she reported improvement of the anal discomfort and a return of the old stomach symptoms . |
| 17 | He has worked for South African companies and first came to this country on a De Beers scholarship to Oxford . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 20 | If you are unfortunate enough to be faced with such a situation then the only responsible advice I can suggest is the same as that offered to nursing students . |
| 21 | All three were anonymous in shiny protective clothing of the same pattern as that issued to Russian NBC battalions on the Western front . |