Example sentences of "led [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afraid Julius might be coming after her , she ran down the steps and into the garden , following the paths that led between wide beds of herbaceous flowers , many of them still blooming happily in the warmth of the long , sunny autumn . |
| 2 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 3 | When the Prince of Asturias put a candle in his window to start a riot against his father , he called into existence a process which led through constitutional monarchy to a democratic republic . |
| 4 | Little Lough Shean led into middle-sized Lough Meenagh , until finally we faced an inland sea , Lough Allen , one of the bigger bulges in the River Shannon . |
| 5 | In the long darker evenings , school and home life brought together ( however unwillingly at first ) the complementary joys of reading and the learning of languages , which led in late adolescence to a much-praised gift for descriptive writing based on his explorations and observations of the natural world . |
| 6 | Typically , the changes discussed include such examples as the lengthening and backing process that led to ‘ broad ’ [ a ] in the RP class of dance , path and the rounding after [ w ] that led in mainstream accents to present-day wasp , swan ( many British English dialects do not have either the ‘ broad ’ [ a ] or rounding after [ w ] ) . |
| 7 | This led in due course to the enactment of a new code which was substituted for the relevant sections of the Act of 1972 by the Transport Act 1981 and is now found , without material alteration , in the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 8 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 9 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 10 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 11 | Cholera reduced heartbeat and caused muscular spasm similar to rigor mortis ; anxiety to dispose quickly of the victims ’ bodies led to gruesome errors . |
| 12 | The negotiations also had some typical Brussels features ; the talks came to a climax as everyone in Brussels was due to depart on August vacations — and the late-night negotiations led to final announcements on 2 August 1984 . |
| 13 | Tunnels branched off to right and left : these led to other pill-boxes . |
| 14 | Every corridor led to other corridors , or to stairs . |
| 15 | This led to forced feedings of turkeys , and , after being voided , resultant germination of seeds of the tree which was on the verge of extinction , though this may have been exacerbated by the depredations of introduced monkeys , which take unripe fruits . |
| 16 | These and other factors led to world-wide steps being taken in the 1970s to reduce the discharge of all mercury compounds to the aquatic environment . |
| 17 | Excellent Adventure went belly-up in auditoriums but was reanimated in a healthy video afterlife which led to Bogus Journey , the some-would-say superior sequel achieving respectable box office figures . |
| 18 | Arbitration not only led to centralised wage-fixing and a high degree of centralised decision-making by both employers and unions , as well as inhibiting the development of a strong shop steward movement , it also fostered a fragmented union movement ( Lansbury , 1978a ) . |
| 19 | The accident at the graphite moderated , light-water-cooled pressure tube reactor at Chernobyl occurred on 26 April 1986 when an explosion produced an uncontrollable fire which lasted several days and led to vast quantities of radionuclides being lifted high into the atmosphere . |
| 20 | In the District , many of these One-Year courses stemmed directly from earlier Terminal courses and some , in turn , led to three-year Tutorial Classes . |
| 21 | It happened less than 72 hours after Sampras had paid warm tribute in Frankfurt to the veteran coach he said had helped him so much in a year which began disastrously without him but then led to outstanding success in the second half of the year , culminating in the ATP Tour Championships title . |
| 22 | This led to sharp antagonism towards the full launch of assessment at 7 in 1991 . |
| 23 | A February 1991 decision to devalue the Guyanan dollar by 56 per cent ( from G$45 to G$101.75 to the US dollar ) led to sharp increases in food , fuel and transport costs . |
| 24 | or : No , long-term economic and social changes led to Liberal decline and Labour 's rise . |
| 25 | This was one cause of the severe financial problems of the railways in later years which led to increasing state intervention even before nationalization . |
| 26 | Increasing concentrations of 5ASA , 4ASA , their N-acetylated metabolites and olsalazine led to increasing inhibition of 1 2 5 I-IFN γ binding . |
| 27 | This led to increasing criticism of the ineffectiveness of crime prevention and of the accepted forms of penal treatment as well as of the philosophy underlying them . |
| 28 | Widespread allegations of corruption led to increasing factionalism within his government and party . |
| 29 | Third , markets also became increasingly fragmented as rising affluence led to increasing demands for differentiated products from discriminating purchasers . |
| 30 | Over time , however , detailed analysis of the nation 's prospects led to increasing appreciation of the width of the gap between ends and means . |