Example sentences of "led to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miranda lay half asleep on a sofa in front of her sitting-room window , which looked down on the Place de la République ; from there , the road led to the distant perfume factory which Miranda wanted to buy . |
| 2 | A similar willingness to perform radical treatment for breast cancer in the absence of evidence from randomised trials led to the misguided mutilation of thousands of women by radical mastectomy . |
| 3 | Point Three , the main bone of contention between the two sides , led to the total demilitarization of the Black Sea . |
| 4 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 5 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
| 6 | She followed a makeshift , stepping-stone path , through a rapidly deepening quagmire of mud which led to the front door , and knocked loud and firm upon the solid oak panels . |
| 7 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 8 | ‘ This way , ’ he was instructing , leading her on brisk strides up the double stone staircase that led to the front door . |
| 9 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 10 | An ancient staircase led to the upper floors of the building , and beyond that , the long hall opened into a large , well-lit room . |
| 11 | The references to professors and their books led to the predictable conclusion : ‘ On the Black issue our verdict is based on the facts , we have judged the case on the evidence , fairly , and come to the only just conclusions . ’ |
| 12 | We 're lucky , outsiders like me , in that we 've got the Franks Report on the origins of the war , which covers the seventeen-year build-up , the era of non-decision-taking almost , which led to the Argentine invasion of 1982 . |
| 13 | Difficulties in negotiating wage rates led to the controversial recruitment of labourers from St Vincent to work during the harvest . |
| 14 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 15 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 16 | This background led to the present study . |
| 17 | The team also found that long term potentiation led to the persistent elevation of cAMP in the cells , while short term potentiation was associated with only a transient elevation of cAMP . |
| 18 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 19 | It may have been this subjective judicial approach which led to the strange result in Attwood . |
| 20 | In 1969 a doping scandal at FC Bologna in Italy led to the entire team being found guilty ; in Uruguay the following year two internationalists admitted using an exotic African drug and in the World Cup prior to Argentina , FIFA banned the Haitian internationalist Ernst Joseph for taking the proscribed drug phenlmetrazin . |
| 21 | Shortage of timber led to the increased planting of fast growing conifers such as Norway spruce . |
| 22 | After wandering about for a while she finally got her bearings and found the splendid staircase that led to the grand hall and the main entrance . |
| 23 | Charles I and his Parliament quarrelled , and this led to the Civil War of the 1640s which ended with the defeat and execution of the King and , in 1649 , the establishment of a republic . |
| 24 | The reasons which led to the Civil War of 1642 – 48 are explained , and the parts Chepstow and its lord played in it are outlined . |
| 25 | From there , a quiet backstreet led to the rear entrance of her apartment block . |
| 26 | A stable-type door led to the rear garden . |
| 27 | This complex of supply and demand factors led to the current ‘ epidemic ’ in Wirral , and its spread to the majority of Wirral 's townships . |
| 28 | The first is that , with the consumer being the main culprit in the spending boom which led to the current difficulties , there is a case for shifting the tax burden from industry to individuals . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |