Example sentences of "led by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wake of the killings the government led by President Moussa Traoré was overthrown . |
| 2 | An AI mission to Argentina in November 1976 , led by Lord Avebury , was followed everywhere by twenty plainclothes policemen who questioned , intimidated and even detained a number of people whom they meet . |
| 3 | The testimonies in the book were obtained mostly from the underlings of the house , led by sly , supportive Bert , a man who was able to take and to give pleasure — a fine portrait , which is also a self-portrait , of a second father . |
| 4 | Philip Roth 's article refers to this issue in referring to the later book If not now , when ? — Levi 's ‘ Eastern ’ , an adventure story of Jewish partisans during the closing months of the war , led by the Communist fighter-fiddler Gedaleh . |
| 5 | Classes are led by experienced staff , usually by staff at the drama school where the course is held , and at the end of the five weeks groups will present mini-production projects to each other , on which they will be assessed , and they will usually be given a certificate for having attended the course . |
| 6 | The protestant refugees , inhabitants , and garrison of the city , which was built deliberately with a wall lest a catholic rebellion should ever occur , held the city for fifteen weeks against a poorly equipped catholic Irish army led by James II , the exiled king . |
| 7 | The besieged were led by a soldier and a clergyman . |
| 8 | The blind king led by his daughter . |
| 9 | The past 10 years has seen a dramatic improvement in Italy 's wine technology led by the latest generation of gifted wine-makers . |
| 10 | Each session will be led by a panel of participants representing the UK 's film and television industries . |
| 11 | Each seminar is led by guest speakers with a specialist knowledge of the topic . |
| 12 | This will take place at the Midlands Arts Centre at 5pm on Thursday 3 October , and the discussion will be led by Terry Staples , who programmes the childrens films for the London Film Festival , and Lewis Rudd , Controller Young Peoples ' Programmes at Central Television , with other invited educationalists and childrens ' programme makers . |
| 13 | Their present tennis range is led by Caroline , a lightweight , durable shoe for the casual lady player . |
| 14 | Each group was led by a soloist representing the leader of a particular orchestral section so that as the themes were taken up by first one and then another section , the various groups of dancers joined in . |
| 15 | His ideas were taken to Paris by Marie Sallé and the Italian Comedians led by Luigi Riccoboni . |
| 16 | Requiem MacMillan 's modern classicism and use of Blake 's drawings : the Mourners ( The Royal Ballet led by Bryony Brind ) ... |
| 17 | The team , led by Brian Cowie and Bob Wales , were able to buy the brewery from their employers , Brent Walker , after Ipswich council had slapped a planning order on the brewery site , stopping BW 's redevelopment plans . |
| 18 | The move follows the offer by a coalition of larger conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature , to raise £5 million for the estate , for which its billionaire American owner , John Kluge , is asking £10 million . |
| 19 | Individual negotiations are inevitably led by the benefits that they give an individual . ’ |
| 20 | The team , led by Professor Michael Rowan-Robinson of Queen Mary and Westfield College , University of London , includes astronomers from Cambridge , Oxford and Durham Universities as well as QMW , and from Caltech , Pasadena and Charlottesville , Virginia . |
| 21 | But the Dutch airline has had to agree to reduce its $400m investment in NorthWest to about $175m , or about a quarter of the equity involved in the takeover being led by Los Angeles businessman Al Checchi . |
| 22 | The mbo is being led by six senior executives . |
| 23 | The ANC team was led by Thabo Mbeki , the organisation 's chief of information and the man regarded as a likely successor to Oliver Tambo . |
| 24 | He portrayed the Tories as the party of worn-out ideas , led by a Cabinet of incompetents . |
| 25 | WHEN smallpox was wiped out by a campaign led by the World Health Organisation , the campaigners were fortunate in that smallpox vaccine remains effective even when stored at relatively uncontrolled temperatures . |
| 26 | As officials began their investigations the board of directors of Pearl , led by chairman Einion Holland , said AMP 's takeover bid ‘ is unacceptable and totally inadequate because it fails to reflect the group 's financial strength and prospects ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ However , a consortium led by its management reached agreement with Brent Walker at a higher price . |
| 28 | While Deng is doing his best to assure the world that nothing has changed , that China will push ahead with its reforms and will hold its door open for foreign business and investment , the post-Tiananmen purging of liberal intellectual elements and the new emphasis on ‘ political education ’ have enormously strengthened the position of the Communist Party 's hardline Marxists , led by Yang Shangkun , the president , and Li Peng , the prime minister . |
| 29 | The CDU , led by the relatively popular health minister , Norbert Blum , suffered more heavy losses , dropping by 4.7 per cent to hit 37.5 per cent , its worst result in municipal elections for 33 years . |
| 30 | It accepted the policy review proposals for an open-ended programme of diminishing Britain 's reliance on nuclear energy despite demands led by Arthur Scargill , the National Union of Mineworkers ' president , for a commitment to complete the process within 15 years . |