Example sentences of "[adj] led to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That led to TV appearances on Carrott 's Lib and Saturday Night Live , but her career took an unexpected turn when she spent 16 months with Robert Lindsay in the West End musical , Me And My Girl . |
| 2 | That led to Africa and to Kitchener 's campaigns . |
| 3 | that led to Hela 's drear abode . |
| 4 | Aquib shrugged off the flashpoint at Lord 's that led to Allan Lamb exposing Pakistan as cheats . |
| 5 | That led to warfare for about three months in our house . |
| 6 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 7 | This led to redundancy charges of £400,000 , or half the 1991 figure . |
| 8 | It wanted newspapers and the radio to be able to report where things went wrong , especially if this led to matters being put right . |
| 9 | This led to fears in some quarters that the polytechnics as tough , pragmatic and workaday institutions were unlikely to create a climate in which art and design could grow and flourish . |
| 10 | It was perhaps unfortunate that potatoes could be grown on land which would not support other crops because this led to countries with poor rural economies turning more and more towards potatoes as their sole means of sustenance . |
| 11 | This led to companies like Dupont axing 189,000 jobs on a global basis . |
| 12 | This led to tensions , uneasily held in check and would eventually , though not until after the 1872 strike , bring about a split within the Edinburgh branch . |
| 13 | This led to incidents where US ships were stopped and searched . |
| 14 | This led to involvement in a wide range of speculative projects throughout Europe , North America , and the West Indies , and the huge resources at his disposal enabled him to embark on a vigorous attempt to secure control over the affairs of the East India Company . |
| 15 | Inevitably this led to sieges . |
| 16 | This led to imprisonment after which he sought greater freedom in America . |
| 17 | Changes in the official interest rate once again took on a high political profile and this led to problems with the conduct of monetary policy . |
| 18 | Because official sanctioning of a rise in interest rates could be slow , a " funding pause " could result : this led to problems with controlling broad money , which in turn could reinforce expectations of a rise in interest rates . |
| 19 | This led to calls for the resignation of the president of the University of Utah , and suggestions of unethical behaviour . |
| 20 | This led to calls for the reassertion of the values and practices of the Tokugawa period , or rather of those that the ruling élite regarded as according to the needs of post-1868 Japan . |
| 21 | The lower limit of TL dating of sediment is closely linked with uncertainty about how far the sediment was bleached in antiquity , and this led to development of the optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL ) technique . |
| 22 | At the end of 1989 joint military exercises were held with Singapore ( in Indonesia ) , and this led to speculation that Singapore might wish to negotiate military training facilities in the country to replace those which it currently used in Taiwan . |
| 23 | This led to developments in both music and the Liturgy which were probably more far-reaching than the Council Fathers anticipated . |
| 24 | All of this led to Khrushchev 's best-remembered comment of the tour : ‘ Man 's face , ’ he said , ‘ is more beautiful than his backside . ’ |
| 25 | To soften his feelings , however , we learned that the Professor from time to time gave him a fee which far exceeded the amount of the toll … just by the Bridge , turnstiles admitted foot-passengers to pass by different paths , intersecting the large extent of open ground , some of this led to Somers Town , Red Lion Street , etc … here and there , especially at the lower portion of the [ College ] ground , walls were standing , some of them being eight or ten feet high . ’ |
| 26 | In arts and social science particularly , this led to appointments made for political rather than academic reasons . |
| 27 | Commercially , this led to disaster . |
| 28 | This led to Gibson being seconded in 1928 to work with Michels on the properties of gases at high pressures , and to ICI becoming interested in the chemical effects of high pressures , the theme of Gibson 's work on his return to Winnington in 1931 . |
| 29 | This led to elections for a new Constituent Assembly in which the Christian Democrats emerged as the strongest party , had one of their leaders — Georges Bidault — made premier , and were then able to draw up a constitution better suited to their tastes . |
| 30 | This led to skinheads being both hated and feared . |