Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure of the index items was described in terms of the type of search facility required to support the work of branch and other clerks , for example , on the basis of title , keywords , or links to geographic map references . |
| 2 | Of the other dimensions , purity , in Bentham 's special sense , means the chance of a pleasure not leading to pains , or a pain not leading to pleasures , while the fecundity is the extent to which a pleasure breeds or leads to other pleasures or a pain to other pains . |
| 3 | More often diagnosis reveals untreatable disease or leads to misplaced attempts at therapy . |
| 4 | The first describes the forms of English , spoken and written , at various levels from individual letters or sounds to connected discourse . |
| 5 | For them there is frequently a cycle of desperate and under-capitalised farming followed by failure through drought or poverty-induced disease and malnutrition , with another enforced move to take more land into cultivation , while the land under previous cultivation erodes , or reverts to unproductive grazing land ( Gilbert 1974 , Deutsch 1977 : 343 f. ; Johnson 1978 ; Grainger 1980 : 16 ) . |
| 6 | One type adopts and aspires to dominant middle class values and priorities . |
| 7 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 8 | Could it not buy up businesses abroad ( $45 billion over the whole period 1950–67 ) , make loans and grants to foreign governments ( $50 billion ) or finance military expenditure abroad ( $44 billion ) simply by printing money ? |
| 9 | TRANSAID has helped SCF to secure an aircraft to fly relief workers and supplies to famine-stricken areas of Somalia , where continued fighting and looting make overland travel dangerous . |
| 10 | Nuclear power will help to save oil — the most vital of the USSR 's energy resources , yet a great deal more will need to be done to change Soviet energy structures if domestic oil supplies and supplies to other Communist countries are not to come under extreme pressure in the late 1980s and 1990s. there will still have to be a reduction in supplies to the Communist bloc and a considerable reduction in the proportion of Soviet energy demand which is met by oil . |
| 11 | BRITISH planes could take part in an emergency mercy mission to parachute food and supplies to besieged Bosians in the east of the war-torn country . |
| 12 | Export credit agencies provide insurance against certain defaults to the exporter and guarantees to specified banks against which the banks advance the appropriate currency at a preferential interest rate . |
| 13 | But elsewhere in Europe it lives on and refers to new ways of working with groups , especially those on the margins . |
| 14 | This may be found in most editions of the Dictionary and Kalendar , and refers to Monthly [ Autumn Damask ] Roses . |
| 15 | Clearly , Simon Winchester feels it — and goes to elegant , erudite and amusing lengths to persuade his readers to feel it , too . |
| 16 | Amalia Cardos de Mendez in the Art of Ancient Mexico sets out a simple plan for the language and goes to great length to explain the Maya calendar . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher takes these sessions seriously and goes to enormous lengths to prepare for them . |
| 18 | She 's decided she wants a cat , and goes to enormous lengths to persuade her reluctant parents to buy her one . |
| 19 | Whether we use this energy directly , as with gas , or indirectly , as electricity , it involves burning fuel , which emits carbon dioxide , which in turn destroys the ozone layer and contributes to global warming . |
| 20 | Certainly for advocates of market allocation , government is a major source of imperfect competition which unjustifiably impedes voluntary exchanges between individuals and contributes to social inefficiency . |
| 21 | More importantly , much of the investment that is taking place simply replicates facilities at other ports and adds to excess capacity in the industry . |
| 22 | However , if you are in a program , the commands queued to the CLI will not be actioned until the program pauses for input , or ends and exits to immediate mode . |
| 23 | Based on a long-term research project that has generated data on paraprofessional social service personnel in fourteen developed and developing countries , this paper presents some findings that , if acted upon , could strengthen the contribution of both professionals and paraprofessionals to social service and social development goals . |
| 24 | Based on research carried out on paraprofessional social service personnel in fourteen developed and developing countries — Australia , Britain , Canada , Denmark , India , Indonesia , Israel , Japan , The Philippines , South Africa , Spain , Uganda , the US , and West Germany — over the last seven years , this paper presents some findings that , if acted upon by social service organizations , social work education programmes , and paraprofessional training programmes , could strengthen the contribution of both professionals and paraprofessionals to social service and social development goals . |
| 25 | The problem with states of this kind is not that they exclude all organised groups , as the doctrine of Napoleonic administration says they should , but that they exclude unequally and grant access and favours to certain privileged groups . |
| 26 | But a more complete understanding of the operation of and limits to parental rights in education requires a wider examination , of how the law deals with other areas where the interests of children , parents and the state are all in particularly sharp focus . |
| 27 | This requirement increases the listener 's processing load , and leads to increased response latencies on the localisation task . |
| 28 | Significant involvement of third parties , which increases the potential for errors , reduces security , and leads to increased costs . |
| 29 | Finding three of these items is very interesting and leads to various questions . |
| 30 | This needs to be dealt with firmly however , before it escalates and leads to serious injury . |