Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The freedom to experiment , to organise classrooms in a way which supported and encouraged children 's learning , and which incidentally ( though not haphazardly ) covered the key areas of the curriculum led to many innovations . |
| 2 | So the struggle became to some extent a contest between the German bishops and the pope , and the position of the German bishops in extending the conflict can only be understood if we understand their relationships with the political parties and the rival claimants . |
| 3 | This judgement was made by comparing the percentage of the regional budget devoted to this service with the corresponding percentages in other regions . |
| 4 | As for the reform of the National Health Service , it is already well established that every hour devoted to this subject plays into Labour 's hands . |
| 5 | Inside the plant , levels of radiation in the abandoned reactor building rose to many times the lethal level . |
| 6 | Erm , members will be aware of the at the bottom of Abbey Foregate , opposite the Abbey which work is currently under way on , erm initial discussions with County Council officers from E E D department led to some suggestions being made . |
| 7 | The mayor appealed to both sides to spare the city 's Turkish-era centre as terrified residents prepared for a long night in cellar shelters . |
| 8 | It has no emotional effect upon the reader because it does n't show how the poet came to these conclusions . |
| 9 | The ‘ winter of discontent ’ and the subsequent return of the Conservatives for what proved to be a very lengthy period of rule seemed to most observers to mark a profound watershed . |
| 10 | The State Department reacted to this hint of interference with peaceful navigation by expressing the US administration 's ‘ grave concern ’ . |
| 11 | New demands on management led to some confusion as to whether there were in existence models which were still of value . |
| 12 | Stairs led up ; the wood-panelled hall led to another set of stairs going down . |
| 13 | A tee shot hit slightly fat into a steep-faced bunker at the front of the green led to several bunker shots hit even fatter , a score approaching double figures and an instant bout of depression . |
| 14 | Now the management agreed to that policy er and subsequently erm the , the main machine shop was the first er er department to go on to it . |
| 15 | From our study , however , there was no evidence that supplemental oxygen led to any reduction of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias in patients over 60 . |
| 16 | From a hefty £685 million in 1979 , their combined share wealth rose to some £6.7 billion when Mrs Thatcher left office , a ten-fold increase easily beating the 240% increase in the cost of living . |
| 17 | After hearing argument the trial judge acceded to those submissions and ordered a stay of proceedings . |
| 18 | The Queen emerged to more protests but finally forced a smile before she was driven away . |
| 19 | The clerk to the committee wrote to both parents on the same day giving the committee 's grounds for rejecting the appeals . |
| 20 | Adult education classes can increase skills in subjects like photograph , badminton , or a language , often leading to joining a club or group devoted to that interest . |
| 21 | The airmen and women 's families turned out in force to watch , and top billing at the biggest farewell bash in town went to those masters of precision flying , The Red Arrows . |
| 22 | Given that co-operation and consultation in more normal times was virtually unknown on this lateral basis , inexperience led to many defects . |
| 23 | For example timesheets , they were finally discarded and replaced by er a schedule which was a work study schedule applied to each job . |
| 24 | And even fewer realise how close invasion came to this part of the world . |
| 25 | Maybe this new restraint appealed to most people , perhaps everyone felt more comfortable with prudishness . |
| 26 | When the right hon. Gentleman came to that office , he had the opportunity to grasp the nettle of prison reform . |
| 27 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 28 | Argan believed that art belonged to all men , which is why he battled in defence of the cultural heritage from the dark days of Fascism — to the last days of his life , proof of his commitment to criticism as an instrument of conscience . |
| 29 | For example , a woman who over the phone sounded to one policeman as ‘ dead on ’ still had a complaint against her noisy dogs investigated because the complainant appeared to another policeman not to be ‘ spinning a yarn ’ ( FN 19/9/87 , p. 29 ) . |
| 30 | In Trinidad meanwhile , Eric Williams ' fears about the West Indies succumbing to American imperialism had to some extent been realised . |