Example sentences of "[Wh pn] led " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman alleged to have sewn the flag was sentenced to eight years in prison and her husband , who led the ceremony , to 20 years . |
| 2 | One of Lyon 's responsibilities was to ensure that the cantor , who led the singing on behalf of the congregation , was fit for the job . |
| 3 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |
| 4 | Thabo Mbeki , the ANC 's external relations director , who led the movement 's delegation , said in Washington yesterday that the talks were informal . |
| 5 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |
| 6 | A detailed exploration of the area has succeeded in locating the headquarters of the rebel leader who led the revolt of 66-70AD and who fought alongside the Masada rebels for several years . |
| 7 | The only other black to be a head coach in the NFL was Fritz Pollard , who led the now-defunct Hammond Pros from 1923 to 1925 . |
| 8 | MOST OF the rebel officers who led this week 's abortive coup in Panama were shot after their rebellion failed , not killed during the fighting , as the military contends , according to a senior source who was permitted to see the bodies . |
| 9 | More than 160 officers who rebelled against President Menem 's predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , were also pardoned , notably Lieutenant-Colonel Aldo Rico and Colonel Mohamed Ali Seineldin , who led revolts in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 10 | Diego Maradona , who has twice missed penalties this season , scored from the spot ( 55 ) to earn leaders Napoli a draw at Roma , who led through Antonio Comi ( 11 ) . |
| 11 | Moon , who led by two strokes half-way through the third round of the Italian Open , made birdies at all five of the long holes . |
| 12 | Hence sociologists of the police ( and of crime and deviance generally ) were first among those researchers who led the revision of the concept of bureaucracy ( beginning with Bittner 1965 ) . |
| 13 | But there still remained immensely powerful ministers who led the fight for increased public investment and spending measures to cut unemployment . |
| 14 | Thus , men like Derek Hatton , the leader of Merseyside , and Ken Livingstone , who led the Greater London Council ( after a brutal coup which removed the previous Labour leader , Andrew McIntosh ) became symbols of ideological extremism and financial extravagance at one and the same time . |
| 15 | This second charge came because Ramsey had written an article in the Bishoprick which criticized the evangelistic work of Billy Graham , who led a mission in England a few months before . |
| 16 | It is also the meeting of the cultured city dweller , who led Odysseus from undergrowth to city palace , with the savage Cyclops who wished to eat the hero in a cave . |
| 17 | In other words , she could be a girl who led a somewhat itinerant life in the habit of taking jobs in various parts of the country or moving about to live with different men . |
| 18 | Its most famous leader , according to the only available account , was a Buddhist nun who led more than 1,000 people in an attack on government offices in the western suburbs of Lhasa . |
| 19 | Tom Hodgson , who led out Luton on their first Wembley appearance in the 1959 FA Cup final , has died in retirement in Hampshire . |
| 20 | Tom Hodgson , who led out Luton on their first Wembley appearance in the 1959 FA Cup final , has died in retirement in Hampshire . |
| 21 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 22 | The team doctor , Daniel Rodriguez , gets a life ban for submitting a fraudulent medical certificate detailing Rojas 's ‘ injury ’ ; and Fernando Astengo , Chile 's vice-captain who led the players off the pitch in the Maracana , has been suspended for five years . |
| 23 | Still at large were several of the top men , including cashiered Colonel Gregorio Gringo Honasan , leader of a coup attempt against Ms Aquino in August 1987 , and Lieutenant-Colonel Rafael Galvez , who led a siege of Manila 's business district . |
| 24 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 25 | An interesting parallel for this is provided by an exhibition that has just opened in East Berlin , commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Muntzer , the theologian and Protestant reformer , who led the 16th-century Peasants ' Revolt . |
| 26 | Finlay Calder , the Scottish player who led the Lions to victory in Australia , and is now in his final season at the age of 32 , receives the OBE. |
| 27 | Aneurin Bevan , who led the revolt against the charges , portrayed them as the direct result of the financial strains caused by the rearmament programme . |
| 28 | By sad contrast , the people who led the bloodless revolution last autumn — many of them artists , writers , musicians and teachers — were eclipsed at the polls . |
| 29 | Janos Kadar , who led Hungary from then till 1988 , offered some cultural and economic freedom in return for obedience to Moscow . |
| 30 | In America , whether in or out of court , the managers who led the firm into the ditch often remain at the controls while it is pulled out . |