Example sentences of "[noun] had led [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Labour leaders ' caution was understandable in the light of the amendments made to the party constitution after the break with Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 , the last leader to have favoured a coalition government , whose action had led to a split in the party and his expulsion from membership . |
| 2 | The first part of our study , which was reported in the October 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 13 ) , demonstrated that over this five year period the combined effects of mergers among the large audit firms and voluntary auditor switches among listed companies had led to a significant increase in seller concentration . |
| 3 | The outbreak of war in January had led to a sharp reduction in oil supplies from Iraq . |
| 4 | The report further claimed that the deteriorating security situation in Sind had led to a large flow of capital and industry out of Karachi , Pakistan 's largest city and a major port , during January and February . |
| 5 | And , after the 1988 Education Reform Act , one question was whether that reform had led to a new education service in England and Wales . |
| 6 | The West German financial community had claimed that the tax had led to a flight of capital out of the country , thus creating upward pressure on domestic interest rates . |
| 7 | Pravda 's financial difficulties had led to a brief suspension in March [ see pp. 38825 ; 38874 ] , but its pro-communist line had changed little since its reappearance following a ban in August 1991 for alleged support for the attempted coup [ see pp. 38418 ] . |
| 8 | The heterogeneous nature of its object had led to a heterogeneous discipline , and it was only by making literariness the object of its enquiry that literary science could exist as an independent and indeed as a coherent and systematic type of study . |
| 9 | Public concern about price liberalization had led to a wave of panic buying which had emptied shops in the last days of December . |
| 10 | the extent to which devolution had led to a change in personal level of job satisfaction ; |
| 11 | Intensive farming techniques had led to a rapid decline in hare numbers during the 1960s and 70s , as traditional hare habitats were destroyed . |
| 12 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 13 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 14 | At the newer universities and polytechnics the process of institutional growth had led to a variety of adjustments both in the modes of teaching ( most notably through the introduction of the seminar ) and curriculum ( with a more modern and selective emphasis , and the use of the period study ) . |
| 15 | Meanwhile successive years of minimal house building had led to a national housing shortage , variously estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 dwellings . |
| 16 | ( Similar moves in Lithuania in March had led to a Soviet military clampdown against draft dodgers — see pp. 37360-61. ) relationship " with Soviet Union |
| 17 | A YOUNG man 's distinctive T-shirt had led to a case of mistaken identity . |
| 18 | Yet it was undeniable that the Conservative political pressure to extend rural electrification had led to a diversion of scarce capital resources into investments which were known to be unremunerative and in fact turned out to be so . |
| 19 | Earlier reports that Chancellor Kohl had suggested delaying fixing the date for a special EC conference on monetary union for a year had led to a stark and none too veiled warning from the President of the European Commission , Mr Jacques Delors , that this might plunge EC relations with West Germany ‘ into a serious crisis ’ . |
| 20 | It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ . |
| 21 | The DKP had long been dependent on the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED — ultimately renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) and had suffered as a result of the changes in East Germany ; the ending of financial support from the SED had led to a scaling down of operations . |
| 22 | One major lesson drawn from the 1981 riots in Britain by the authorities was that this style of policing had led to a growing gulf between the police and the communities in which it worked . |
| 23 | Tamas had led in a first round of polling on Dec. 9 , but the result had been declared void because the turnout did not reach the necessary 50 per cent [ see p. 37130 ] . |
| 24 | Rowntree 's later study in York ( Rowntree , 1941 ) suggested that the introduction of widow 's benefits had led to a substantial decrease in the extent of poverty among lone mothers . |
| 25 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |