Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 2 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 3 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 4 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 5 | The government 's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation , rumour and gossip . |
| 6 | During the pre-Campaign Wave , visits by Thatcher to Moscow and Kinnock to Washington naturally led to intense television coverage of defence issues . |
| 7 | These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts . |
| 8 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 9 | And it was a fact that William and Preston together led to more trouble than Preston alone , or Preston and any combination of other boys . |
| 10 | The first of these strands , taken up vigorously by many economic commentators in the press and the City , undermined confidence in the ‘ Keynesian ’ approach to demand management and employment policy by suggesting that in the ‘ long run ’ government deficit-financing merely led to higher inflation and was impotent to control employment . |
| 11 | This uneasy compromise was not a major difficulty during the first few years as the national economic problems of the early thirties , reductions in public expenditure and depressed employment conditions all led to severe restrictions on the development of adult education . |
| 12 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 13 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 14 | An increased flow of water not only led to greater purity of the commodity , but also permitted a rebuilding of the entire sewage system . |
| 15 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |
| 16 | The case lasted 100 days , required the attendance of many witnesses from abroad , and the defendant 's legal costs alone amounted to some £400,000 . |
| 17 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 18 | Also involved with the Hoptons was Philip Bothe of Coddenham ( Suff. ) a second generation emigrant from the north west who suddenly rose to local prominence after 1483 — which seems to imply an earlier connection with Richard . |
| 19 | Another youth patrol fended off neighbouring peasants who constantly tried to fell trees belonging to the colony ( shades of Nikol'skaia volost' ) . |
| 20 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , our weekly bill for provisions alone came to 25 shillings , or half of our total income . |
| 22 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 23 | It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters . |
| 24 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 25 | In order to find examples of such an antithetical state of affairs they naturally turned to primitive society , as they assumed , like many before and after them , that these societies would offer illustrations of systems as totally different to those they knew as could be found anywhere . |
| 26 | Jampa Ngodrup apparently confessed to all charges . |
| 27 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 28 | Nu and Aung San only grew to early manhood in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 29 | Only listened to classical music on the radio or her beloved Chopin on the gramophone . |
| 30 | A measure os Stoddards ' strength in depth was the fact that if their two non-counting scores were added in , their average only fell to 31.3 points . |