Example sentences of "which led to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 IBM Corp 's fall from grace , which led to Standard & Poor 's Corp downgrading its senior ratings to double-A-minus from triple-A , has not affected the triple-A asset-backed certificate ratings of IBM 1990 , 1991 and 1992 Tax-Exempt Grantor Trusts , the rating agency said after reviewing the situation .
2 MISGUIDED EDITOR , BADLY MISLED BY MISINFORMED JOURNALIST , DID NOT REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDING BAIE SEMINAR AT DUNDAS AND WILSON ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , AND LOSES JOB IN CONSEQUENCE OF IGNORANCE WHICH LED TO LITIGATION AGAINST HIS EMPLOYERS , THE JOURNALIST & HIMSELF …
3 Decisive battles , the death of kings in battle or the life imprisonment of great men were rare events ; and against the very exceptional , decisive outcome of the battles of 1066 and 1106 we must set the endless , indecisive campaigns of William I and Henry I on the borders of their French domains ; the indecisive warfare of Stephen 's reign which led to anarchy in England .
4 Other areas covered , plus Who 's Who , records , and report on the tangle over Raman Lambda 's registration , which led to court action .
5 Those tears , which led to dismissal , could have been seen as a source of energy and redirected by an understanding supervisor to a powerful commitment to doing the work well .
6 In this new arena , it has to be businesslike — late startups for some government contracts have meant cost cutting at the end this financial year , which led to newspaper reports of a ‘ crisis ’ at WSL .
7 This requires us to reverse the steps which led to eqn ( 7.9 ) .
8 In general , this was nut normally part of a shopping-around process which led to selection of a particularly advantageous form of credit .
9 Now you get the health problems caused by over tight corseting , which led to constriction of lungs , of ribs , in some cases , punctured lungs , a lot of cases of T B in the eighteen forties were in fact where the corset had compressed the ribs so tightly , that they 'd actually punctured the lung .
10 Chapter 1 has already mentioned the impetus given to the debate by Jim Callaghan 's Ruskin speech , and discussed some of the factors which led to accountability pressures .
11 Following the debates Bush appeared to step back from further character attacks on Clinton , a development which led to speculation that he had already privately accepted the inevitability of his defeat and was seeking to preserve a degree of presidential dignity .
12 The change , which could come in this autumn , follows the scrapping of the controversial unit fines system , which led to public outrage after a number of cases where huge fines were imposed for trivial offences .
13 Over the ensuing days traffic and commuters in London were seriously disrupted by hoax bomb warning calls which led to station closures .
14 Many people consider that the failure adequately to protest at the rise of European Fascism in the 1920s and 1930s was a failure of moral duty , whilst others point out that protesting was a highly dangerous business which led to imprisonment , to torture , and to death .
15 He also sees that the Western-led coalition can not ensure peace or a new order because it ‘ is not willing to address ’ the very factors such as dictatorship and maldistribution of wealth and power which led to war in the first place .
16 However , when they were discussing the historical development which led to capitalism , as they do in The German Ideology and Formen , they stress , by contrast , the continuity in structure between different stages and the universality of the historical process .
17 The third National Government was not a power-sharing coalition , but a coalition which led to party fusion .
18 Despite a programme of Russification ( including a ban on the use of Ukrainian in schools and publications ) , a strongly nationalist movement emerged in the late nineteenth century which led to pressure for greater autonomy and a brief period of independence immediately after the October revolution .
19 Brezhnev , with the co-operation of Kosygin , endeavoured to rehabilitate Stalinism in the Soviet Union , which led to opposition and the need to institute oppression of dissidents and the increasing use of the notorious labour camps .
20 It was their wage-reducing attempts to cut costs which led to Luddism .
21 They felt that they were now able to be more flexible and to make decisions which led to action .
22 But as the policy of giving a great deal of attention to politicians had become established , complaints were inevitable : certain individual politicians were given more publicity than others , which led to jealousy .
23 At the same time three key ministers and a prominent MNSD official were dismissed because of their responsibility for austerity plans which led to student protests and the killing of a number of students at a demonstration [ see p. 37308 ] .
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