Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fierce anti-Common Market views led to a challenge to his candidacy for the South Edinburgh seat in 1973 which he successfully fought off . |
| 2 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Thus , after two days in which a negotiated settlement to the original squabble seemed possible , an ultimatum to the Vietminh to clear out of Haiphong in two hours led to a bombardment which must have killed at least 1,000 people , many if not most of whom would be described as innocent civilians . |
| 4 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 5 | Berle offered the American objections to international control , insisting that the British proposals amounted to a 50–50 division of traffic on the North Atlantic route . |
| 6 | Dr Linebaugh has discovered that around 40 per cent of those hanged at Tyburn in the middle years of the eighteenth century had completed apprenticeships and a further 20 per cent had at least begun one ( see pp. 230 – 1 ) Even in London , the greatest centre of artisan manufacture , not all apprenticeships led to a skilled trade — the unfortunate climbing chimney boys for example — but it would seem reasonable to suggest that around half of the working men of the capital were to some degree skilled , in the sense of selling specialised labour . |
| 7 | In contrast , mergers led to a significant increase in industrial concentration and monopoly power in the UK . |
| 8 | Naval surveying ships pioneered the way , taking soundings along the proposed routes and sampling the seabed : these activities led to a surge of interest in the scientific exploration of the sea . |
| 9 | The Board 's discussions led to a conclusion that in order to improve profitability and obtain the benefits of economy of scale , it is desirable to merge the subsidiaries into the parent company , thereby creating a single company . |
| 10 | A FEAR of handbag-snatching pedal cyclists led to a Stockton borough councillor trying to halt a proposed cycle route through the town centre . |
| 11 | Apart from these , only four other PJC-2s were ordered by private pilots and together with the prototype , eleven were sold when the need to build-up America 's defences led to a curb on the use of strategic materials and production ceased . |
| 12 | Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament . |
| 13 | The absence of student groups led to a relatively small growth in WEA activity in most villages during the three-year period and the scheme suffered , perhaps inevitably and unfairly , in comparison with the earlier success achieved in Bedfordshire . |
| 14 | Decreasing COHb values led to a slight increase of SpO , as would be expected by the formula SpO= ( OHb+0.9COHb ) /total Hb100% , according to Tremper and Barker . |
| 15 | The manor did not disappear when the Middle Ages drew to a close , nor when the Tudors made the parish the administrative unit that was responsible for maintaining the poor and the highways and for petty law and order . |
| 16 | The catalogue raisonné is destined to become one of the finest projects devoted to a modern artist and will be the invaluable source of reference for scholarship and the trade alike . |
| 17 | A campaign by hockey fans led to a bid from a local consortium … now the Bladerunner Arena is being run as a charitable trust , with all sides crossing their fingers for success . |
| 18 | Murchison acted upon the recommendation quickly and the resulting influx of recruits led to a radical change in the organisation of the Survey in Scotland . |
| 19 | At each end of the bay , the steps led to a half-glass panelled front door . |
| 20 | At first they met fierce opposition , but the formation of the Republic and the immigration of many new peoples led to a wide open door for evangelical missionary activity . |
| 21 | The fact that Einstein 's general theory of relativity turned out to predict singularities led to a crisis in physics . |
| 22 | The division of the provinces led to a great increase in extent of the boundaries between them and the imposition of duties on goods passing through them . |
| 23 | But Mr Lyall 's words led to a more purposeful approach from the home side after the interval , with Dutchman Zondervan more influential in midfield and Thompson pushing forward adventureously from left-back . |
| 24 | Grammatical gender developed , therefore , when speakers passed to a higher level of reasoning in terms of general principles . |
| 25 | The opening of East European borders led to a massive influx of those seeking work and political asylum and to the introduction in March 1990 of visa requirements for Romanians , Bulgarians and Turks [ see also p. 37969 ] . |
| 26 | Measures taken by the authorities against the itinerant traders led to a crisis in the city government , as a result of which the Socialist mayor , Giorgio Morales , was forced to resign . |
| 27 | Has social and economic change over the past two centuries led to a reduction in the actual support which kin give to each other ? |
| 28 | And just as the growing dependence of European art music on written scores in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led to a differential development of certain elements of musical language , so the replacement of popular song scores by recordings has increased the importance of performance , and with it different elements . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1986 , the legacy of Westland and local-government losses led to a relatively low point for the government . |
| 30 | During the 1920s the discovery of hormones led to a new variant in the theory of sexual difference based on emotional instability . |