Example sentences of "lead to the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By remembering that , application of these criteria for equilibrium to equation ( 8.33 ) leads to the first derivative of that equation while the second derivative is where the subscript c denotes critical conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 3 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 4 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 5 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 6 | McCord 's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon 's officials . |
| 7 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 8 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |