Example sentences of "led [prep] a [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PSOE 's restructuring programme in the steel , shipbuilding , mining , vehicles and capital goods industries led to a reduction in public enterprise employment and the sale of a number of major companies ( notably the INI-owned car firm SEAT ) to the private sector . |
| 2 | The move , which the Germans refused to discuss , reversed the outflow of funds and led to a fall in Finnish interest rates as the market opened yesterday . |
| 3 | This generated bottlenecks which in turn led to a fall in industrial production . |
| 4 | Despite the use of fiscal deflation in the attempt to maintain the exchange rate of the pound , and the difficulties experienced by the new National Board for Prices and Incomes in controlling inflation , which led to a slump in Labour support in mid-1965 , Labour 's electoral support had increased markedly by 1966 . |
| 5 | He has argued that differences between British and Indian legal norms inevitably led to a divorce in Indian minds between justice and the colonial courts . |
| 6 | Moreover , political supremacy and the absence of a strong Tory challenge led to a breakdown in Whig unity ; as a result , many of the Parliamentary struggles under the first two Georges saw Court Whigs being opposed by a combination of out-of-office Whigs , Country Whigs , and Tories , to an extent that had never been the norm during the rage of party under the later Stuarts . |
| 7 | During the 1950s the housing shortage led to a boom in unauthorised caravan sites . |
| 8 | It can , however , be claimed that though the expansion of employment in the public sector was not directly responsible for the decline in the number of people employed in the manufacturing sector because it did not use the same labour sources and because there was no labour shortage anyhow , it was , nevertheless , indirectly responsible because it led to a decline in private profit and hence to a shortage of capital for investment in the manufacturing industries . |
| 9 | We looked in vain in Siemens AG 's first half report on Monday for any mention of its Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG computer subsidiary , and with all the dreadful economic news coming out of Germany , it began to assume the air of the dog that did n't bark : Siemens said of its overall business that it did not show any revival in the first half , and that continued economic decline affected domestic business and led to a decline in incoming orders , and there was no recovery in its foreign business ; laying it on with a trowel , Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's leading economic advisor was quoted on Tuesday as saying that German workers failed to recognise the danger of high wages in a time of recession , and that German products were too expensive for world markets as wage increases outpaced growth in productivity , and earlier , Siemens Nixdorf had had to rebut a magazine report that its losses would be even worse this year , saying that it was certain that its results would improve this fiscal year ; the article , in Manager Magazin , also said that Siemens was looking for a replacement for Siemens Nixdorf management board chairman Hans-Dieter Wiedig , and added that plans to reduce the workforce to 41,000 by 1995 from 47,200 at the end of February could well be accelerated . |
| 10 | This rebuff led to a shift in Athenian domestic policies — the ostracism of Kimon — and to a switch to an audaciously anti-Spartan stance in foreign affairs — alliances with Argos and Thessaly and the acceptance of the adhesion of Megara . |
| 11 | The prospect of the widely reviled Khmers Rouges regaining a position of predominance in the country led to a re-orientation in traditional diplomatic policy prosecuted towards Cambodia by some Western states towards accommodation . |
| 12 | In the 1870s a drive for increased milk production led to an increase in Friesian imports and this typical dairy type settled in the southern lowlands of Sweden . |
| 13 | Generally speaking , and in spite of the Great Depression , for the employed inter-war working class , ‘ increased purchasing power led to an increase in total consumer expenditure on commercial leisure forms ’ . |
| 14 | This led to an increase in urban employment opportunities and the expanding workforce gave rise to a greater demand for food . |