Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] led [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 2 | Near him was a door which presumably led to a room beyond . |
| 3 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
| 4 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 5 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 6 | The Witcombe reservoirs ( where the Horsebere originates ) opened around 1860 and were responsible for depleting the water supply to the mill , which eventually led to its downfall . |
| 7 | In the team 's acclimatisation tour of Latin America , he kicked his way into the public 's imagination and sowed the seeds of notoriety which eventually led to his life ban . |
| 8 | Thus began the process which eventually led to the peasants ceasing to sow grain and ultimately to the New Economic Policy . |
| 9 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 10 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 11 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
| 12 | First , although it was a serious issue which eventually led to the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , such violence was only a pale reflection of the conflict which led to the growth of fascism in Italy and Germany in the inter-war period . |
| 13 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 14 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 15 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 16 | Her husband Reggie was not a strong believer , and it was only at his persistent insistence that Joyce sought medical advice on the eye cancer which eventually led to her death . |
| 17 | It was in this capacity that Le Duc Tho conducted secret negotiations in the early 1970s with Henry Kissinger , US President Nixon 's National Security Adviser , which eventually led to the signing of the 1973 Paris agreements . |
| 18 | Accusations of corruption made against Alfonso Guerra which eventually led to his resignation as Deputy Prime Minister in January 1991 [ see pp. 37263 ; 37968 ] . |
| 19 | The failure of this ‘ mechanical speech ’ approach ( which eventually led to the development of speech synthesis by rule ) has many lessons to teach us about pronunciation teaching and learning , and it will be useful , in looking at connected speech , to bear in mind the difference between the way humans speak and what would be found in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |
| 20 | These were based on different understandings of racism which apparently led to radically divergent programmes of educational reform . |
| 21 | Webster 's resignation came only a month after a fire in the US embassy in Moscow , which apparently led to the loss of computer disks and other sensitive material when Soviet firefighters , possibly including State Security ( KGB ) agents , were allowed to move unescorted through parts of the building . |
| 22 | Associated with the growth of the proletariat in the towns of feudal times were other processes which together led to the concentration of the means of production in ever-fewer hands , a process which ultimately led to the capitalism of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 24 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
| 25 | The Left-wing bias of the Cabinet had enabled Mr Major to ‘ railroad through ’ his proposals on Maastricht which nearly led to the Government 's defeat . |
| 26 | Also , expense was spared by the adoption of a simple square-headed shape in contrast to the original arched profile , and it was the cost consideration which similarly led to the new window sills , mullions and lintels being manufactured in reconstructed stone to match the existing dressings , rather than the natural material . |
| 27 | Once the bickering and backbiting , which also led to Terry Vaux and Gwilym Treharne standing down from their posts as the Welsh representatives on the International Rugby Board , had died down , the general committee resolved to consult the clubs again over links with the Republic . |
| 28 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
| 29 | Thus in the Mediterranean basin the evolution of valleys ( Vita-Finzi , 1969 ) could only be understood by reference to human activity and , more biogeographically , the significance of cultural biogeography was exemplified by the work of Professor D.R. Harris , which was initially in the field of historical ecology but proceeded to embrace the domestication of plants and animals ( e.g. Harris , 1968 ) and which later led to greater contacts with archaeology and to his appointment as Professor of Archaeology in the University of London in 1979 . |
| 30 | One of these which originally led to the nonprofessional but nationally-recognized Certificate of Social Service ( CCETSW , 1975 ) , has now been incorporated into a new and alternative route to a full professional social work qualification for some of the kinds of social service personnel we have referred to as paraprofessionals ( CCETSW , 1989 ) . |