Example sentences of "led [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 2 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
| 3 | ‘ Graham led from the first lap to the 97th at Monaco , and then ran out of oil . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |
| 6 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 7 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 8 | The quest for louder reproduction led to the first ‘ amplifying gramophones ’ . |
| 9 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 10 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ By 1976 , the Government decided it had to act and that led to the first TV campaign with the line ‘ Do n't take your car for a drink ’ . ’ |
| 13 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 14 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 15 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 16 | There was one last wave as they crossed the stone bridge before swinging away right , up the long gentle pull which led to the first draw . |
| 17 | McCord 's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon 's officials . |
| 18 | A quarrel between Corcyra , a daughter-city of Corinth , and Epidamnos , a daughter-city of Corcyra herself , led to the first open clash , the battle of Sybota , between Athenian and Peloponnesian League ships ( 433 ) : Epidamnos had appealed over the head of Corcyra to the ‘ grandmother ’ Corinth , while Corcyra asked for , and got , help from Athens . |
| 19 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 20 | Unfavourable reaction to the Commission 's Report led to the first ever national conference in Great Britain of Adult Deaf and Dumb Missions and Associations , which at that time numbered upwards of thirty-six . |
| 21 | Her enterprise " led to the first Deaf Choir Festival which was held in St. Barnabas Church , Oxford , in 1976 . |
| 22 | Appointed principal of the Calcutta School of Art and keeper of the Government Art Gallery in 1896 , a post he held until 1906 , he was responsible for momentous changes in the art-school curriculum which led to the first Indian nationalist art movement , the Bengal School of Painting , under the artist Abanindranath Tagore . |
| 23 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 24 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 25 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 26 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 27 | The talks which led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( SALT I ) were confined to the Russians and Americans . |
| 28 | In the second half it was pretty much a similar story , Leeds pressing from the start , then a Soton injury , then a lovely classy move which led to the first goal . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |