1.   HIGH TIDES and winds combined to bring chaos to the English east coast yesterday, causing extensive flooding in many areas.

2.   Budget austerity and a spreading antipathy toward welfare for businesses and the well-off have combined to bring farm reform bills to the House and Senate floors.

3.   Farther south, sunshine and winds from the south will combine to bring warmer air back to the Plains.

4.   Such factors combined to bring about the failure of Nissan Mutual, the first Japanese life insurance company closed by the government in more than half a century.

5.   Three automotive trends have combined to bring this about.

6.   Secretary for Economic Services Stephen Ip Shu-kwan said on Wednesday three factors combined to bring about the tourism slump last month.

7.   Tension and sweltering heat had combined to bring the atmosphere in Italy during the game to near boiling.

8.   Increased supply of educated and skilled labour and structural action to facilitate business sector growth should combine to bring higher reak incomes, the OECD said.