Example sentences of "[conj] led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 2 | At Paternoster Square , Lipton was involved in the competition that led to the appointment of Arup Associates , whose scheme was promptly criticised by Prince Charles . |
| 3 | There are some very good photographs and some intriguing snippets of information — Michael Bowyer tells how the Operational Requirement that led to the Hampden and Wellington specified that the aircraft should have folding wings for hangar storage ! |
| 4 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |
| 5 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 6 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 7 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 8 | A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate . |
| 9 | When he passed the entry that led to the bathrooms and toilets , he became more circumspect . |
| 10 | Together with the agreement that led to the lifting of the Ad Valorem duties , which required US companies to invest a certain proportion of their earnings in Britain , Eady led to a considerable increase in British-based American production . |
| 11 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 12 | 1957 : Duncan Sandys ' ‘ Big Bang ’ philosophy , that led to the end of National Service ; 1965 : Denis Healey 's rolling Defence reviews , ending in the withdrawal from East of Suez ; 1974 : Roy Mason 's concentration of resources on Western European Defence , taking the withdrawal from empire to its logical conclusion ; 1981 : John Nott 's intended sacrifice of Maritime in favour of Continental capability , that was aborted by the Falklands Campaign . |
| 13 | His energetic , though convoluted , diplomacy gave reality to ‘ containment ’ with the formation of SEATO in May 1954 ; the extension of the Brussels Treaty in 1954 to include the rearmament of West Germany and the British pledge to keep four divisions on the Continent ; and the signing of the Baghdad Pact in February 1955 that led to the formation of CENTO in 1957 . |
| 14 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |
| 15 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 16 | They walked together up the slope from the gate , passing the long high wall of Brooke Parker 's chemical works and the wide opening that led to the top of Thorpe Street . |
| 17 | Eve , picking up on some of Ari 's melancholy without understanding the cause , hugged her as they thundered along the straight , smooth road that led to the city . |
| 18 | A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush . |
| 19 | It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 . |
| 20 | Slowly she dragged herself along one of the paths that led to the house . |
| 21 | Among the material contained in the KGB files are the Soviet version of the attempted CIA assassination of Fidel Castro ; the biography of a high-level Soviet scientist known as Tolkachov whose spying on behalf of the CIA during the 1980s led to a devastating penetration of the Soviet radar defence system and , in 1987 , Tolkachov 's execution ; and the revelation of joint CIA–KGB operations during the Gulf war that led to the pre-emptive destruction of much of Saddam Hussein 's offensive missile power . |
| 22 | The accord , signed 10 days ago , is aimed at preventing the sort of conflicts that led to the break-up of the Soviet Union from being repeated within Russia . |
| 23 | Having consolidated his base , he launched an aggressive drive that led to the take-over of Newcastle Breweries and several smaller Edinburgh companies to form Scottish & Newcastle , which by the time he retired as chairman in 1969 was supplying about 10 per cent of British beer sales . |
| 24 | We went through the door and into a hallway that led to the dressing rooms … . |
| 25 | He held up the tent-flap that led to the theatre . |
| 26 | By the second half Scotland was fighting for her life , and a missed tackle gave the opening that led to the home team 's great goal . |
| 27 | That led to the Hundred Years War , and in the summer of 1346 , Edward III landed in Normandy and that led to the battle of Crecy on 26th . |
| 28 | In October 1889 , the British Government became determined not to allow any threat to the British strategical supremacy in South Africa , and that led to the outbreak of another Boer War , which included some humiliating defeats in the initial stages and the two great sieges at Ladysmith and Mafeking which were finally relieved in 1900 . |
| 29 | Trade Unions had become united in the Trades Unions Congress and at a meeting in 1899 , it was agreed to call a special conference on political representation of Labour , and that led to the foundation of the labour political party at the turn of the century . |
| 30 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |