Example sentences of "it led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It led to the creation in Moscow in May 1989 of the World Association of Nuclear Operators . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Among other things , it led to the extinction of a distinctive species of Sicilian vulture . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It led to the condition of which William Cowper wrote in The Winter Evening : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In fact it led to the opposite . |
| 16 | In Rochdale and in Nottingham it led to the removal of many children . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It led to the famous ‘ software lock-in ’ , which meant that IBM 's customers had massive financial incentives to remain IBM customers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the one hand it led to the concept of art education rather than craft training , with the professor-student relationship substituted for that of the master-apprentice . |
| 27 | It led to the birth of the jumper a slender iron rod with a chisel-end forged by the mine smiths . |
| 28 | This galvanised the National Agent , R. T. Windle , into making plans for an individual membership campaign early in 1944 ; and it led to the executive summoning a conference of trade union officers so as to encourage them to contribute to a general election fund and to increase the proportion of their contracting-in membership — which was much less than half the total membership they reported to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 29 | This event was of great significance for the development of landscapes on a continental scale because it led to the establishment of new base levels for continental erosion . |
| 30 | The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry . |