Example sentences of "[pers pn] led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 2 | More importantly , they led to the establishment of a German confederation of 39 states which retained the bulk of sovereign power . |
| 3 | Inevitably they led to the totally unnecessary deaths of many pet cats , as jittery owners took emergency steps to protect themselves from the dreaded twentieth-century plague . |
| 4 | True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night . |
| 5 | He led to the final 250 metres , before falling back to last . |
| 6 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 7 | It led to the creation in Moscow in May 1989 of the World Association of Nuclear Operators . |
| 8 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 9 | Indeed , it led to the so-called Euro-communism of the 1970s , when communist parties with quite substantial support , as in Spain , Portugal and Italy , began to distance themselves from the policies of the Soviet Union and its satellites . |
| 10 | It led to the Parliament Bill which proposed to restrict the power of the Lords , also introducing a limit of five years for the life of any Parliament , and strengthened the position of Mr. Asquith as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 12 | In the Christian case , it led to the periodization of history , a chronological method that we still use , although nowadays we approach history from a purely secular point of view . |
| 13 | An important consequence of the introduction of mechanical clocks was that in much of western Europe it led to the adoption of the uniform hour of sixty minutes . |
| 14 | First , it kept the school-leaver within the realms of dependence , emphasizing the need for guidance and employment advice ; and , secondly , it led to the eruption of a lively dispute between the Board of Education and the Board of Trade over which department should have final authority for adolescent workers in the administration of the Labour Exchanges Act 1909 . |
| 15 | Among other things , it led to the extinction of a distinctive species of Sicilian vulture . |
| 16 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 17 | It led to the condition of which William Cowper wrote in The Winter Evening : |
| 18 | The Gay News Defence Campaign may not have won the case for the paper , but it helped the community maintain a sense of strength and it led to the setting up of the Gay Activists Alliance . |
| 19 | If so , it was inspired lunacy , for it led to the creation of such classics from the Big Four in UA 's first decade as Griffith 's Way Down East , Fairbanks 's The Thief of Baghdad , Pickford 's Little Lord Fauntleroy , and Chaplin 's The Gold Rush . |
| 20 | In fact it led to the opposite . |
| 21 | In Rochdale and in Nottingham it led to the removal of many children . |
| 22 | ( It led to the partial withdrawal of the present writer from my political party and was a factor in my decision in the following year to join with others in setting up a new political party , the British Ulster Dominion Party . ) |
| 23 | It led to the publication in 1936 of The General Theory of Interest , Employment and Money by J.M. Keynes , a Cambridge don , which revolutionised conventional economics and which resulted in a new approach to the conduct of economic policy . |
| 24 | In an internal memorandum leaked this week , some suggested stressing the strategic and political danger that Palestinian self-government would cause if it led to the creation of an independent Palestinian state . |
| 25 | In practice it led to the ‘ carve-up ’ ( described in more detail in chapter 6 ) , whereby the four big companies ( five , from 1968 ) were guaranteed national access for agreed amounts of their programmes , with the ITA/IBA controlling certain ‘ quality ’ aspects of content and the proportions of programme types ( news , drama , and so on ) . |
| 26 | The rapid growth of the BUF and the increased problems of public order associated with it led to the government showing an interest in BUF activities . |
| 27 | The expedition was a military failure , but it led to the treaty of Brétigny of May 1360 , which gave Edward the lands ceded to him in 1358 with a ransom reduced to 3,000,000 gold crowns . |
| 28 | It led to the famous ‘ software lock-in ’ , which meant that IBM 's customers had massive financial incentives to remain IBM customers . |
| 29 | Just as the 1972 Conference on the Environment and Development in Stockholm is said to have ushered in a new era of international cooperation ( at the very least , it led to the creation of the United National Environment Programme ) , so its 1992 successor could just provide all world leaders with some kind of working map for the future . |
| 30 | It led to the discovery of the ability of a Leyden jar to store electricity and to Cavendish 's discovery of the inverse square law of attraction or repulsion between charged bodies . |