Example sentences of "which led to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was one of these translating jobs which led to the Encyclopedie . |
| 32 | The site for the new garden had a river frontage to the south , was bounded on the east by Swan Lane , which led to the tavern of that name and on the north by Cox 's Close . |
| 33 | Captain Cook discovered New South Wales in 1770 and in that same year , hack in Britain , Lord North became Prime Minister but strong opposition by Colonialists in America to the imposition of tea-tax , developed in 1773 , which led to the Boston Harbour incident in the following year , and eventually to the American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1782 . |
| 34 | The sixth Duke never married , but he was a great horticulturist , and it is believed it was his interest and influence which led to the establishment of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick . |
| 35 | Within the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick there existed Boston House in the Manor of Boston , with a varied history over many hundreds of years ; also Gunnersbury House — the name Gunnersbury is believed to be derived from Gunilda or Gunyld , a niece of King Canute , who had a house or castle there — which led to the Manor of that area being called ‘ Gunnersbury ’ by the seventeenth century . |
| 36 | The end of British Imperialism could be traced as having occurred with the Suez Canal affair which led to the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister . |
| 37 | One of his main claims was that MI5 had been fully penetrated by Russian intelligence which led to the allegations that Roger Hollis was himself a Russian mole . |
| 38 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |
| 39 | She left them and went up the stairs which led to the bedroom she shared with Pet . |
| 40 | As we shall see , it was one of the factors which led to the US nuclear industry 's virtual demise . |
| 41 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 42 | Whatever one 's view of the tendency which led to the attempt , the attempt was doomed . |
| 43 | It was this early exposure to wheat protein which led to the allergy . |
| 44 | As a result of Napoleon III 's grave error of judgement , the affair of the Holy places became so inflamed that it set the powers on a collision course which led to the Crimean War . |
| 45 | The 1930s also saw a vigorous campaign for better pensions for women , which led to the introduction of a state pension for women at the age of sixty in 1940 . |
| 46 | From our mooring at the pier , panting in the heat , we walked up a long steep , straight track , which led to the main village where accommodation in private houses was to be allocated ; there were no hotels or pensiones . |
| 47 | The circumstances which led to the inconclusive ballot result lend some credence to this . |
| 48 | Since a number of different initiatives on the issue of civil rights took place between 1962 and 1966 , it was probably fortuitous that the one which led to the creation of an organisation was the Wolfe Tone Societies conference , and even without their intervention , something very like NICRA would probably have emerged in any case . |
| 49 | In the first century BC Rome underwent a political revolution , which led to the collapse of the Republic and the establishment of an empire . |
| 50 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 51 | They secured a debate , which led to the adoption on 21 January 1965 of a Resolution noting ‘ with approval the efforts of local authorities to reorganise secondary education on comprehensive lines which will preserve all that is valuable in grammar school education for those children who now receive it and make it available to more children ’ . |
| 52 | The reasoning which led to the discovery of the antimalarial pyrimethamine was applied equally fruitfully 15 years later , to the drug trimethoprim , which was as specific for certain bacteria as pyrimethamine was for malaria parasites . |
| 53 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 54 | As in Handsworth , the event which led to the rioting involved police-officers and a black person . |
| 55 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 56 | It was the refusal to alter the birth certificate which led to the decision against Belgium in the Van Oosterwijk case . |
| 57 | The basis for all these conclusions seems to be that because there are bad comprehensive schools the system must be abandoned ( and if this is not the intention it is likely to be the secondary education for all , which led to the establishment of comprehensive schools in the first place , has , it seems , to be given up in favour of ‘ good ’ education for some and ‘ bad ’ for others , the ‘ good ’ now being variously identified with the rigorous , the vocational , and the wealth-producing . |
| 58 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 59 | We 're lucky , outsiders like me , in that we 've got the Franks Report on the origins of the war , which covers the seventeen-year build-up , the era of non-decision-taking almost , which led to the Argentine invasion of 1982 . |
| 60 | The Dutch types were overwhelmingly preferred during the 1940s , when there was a general boom for dual-purpose breeds in Britain , but a few Canadian animals were preserved , bolstered by Canadian gifts of heifers to promote the Holstein in Britain which led to the formation of the separate British Holstein Society in 1947 . |