Example sentences of "event which lead to the " in BNC.

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1 As in Handsworth , the event which led to the rioting involved police-officers and a black person .
2 Annie recalls , in fictional form , the event which led to the rift in their friendship , apparently referring to herself in the third person .
3 MPs today begin investigating the events which led to the Government dropping its golden share in Jaguar and the subsequent deal to sell the company to Ford .
4 Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition .
5 The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest .
6 An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 .
7 At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion .
8 The events which led to the loss of HMS Impregnable make interesting reading and through research , we have been able to obtain a transcript of the court-martial .
9 Chamorro , 60 , was the widow of Pedro JoaquĆ­n Chamorro , whose murder in 1978 had sparked off events which led to the Sandinista revolution and the overthrow of the Somoza regime in July 1979 .
10 First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] .
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