Example sentences of "[noun] led [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Clean Air Act had left much to state initiative , congressional dissatisfaction with the rate of progress in some states led to the Air Quality Act of 1967 which at last required states to establish air quality standards consistent with federal criteria , and then to devise implementation plans setting out ways of achieving the air quality standards . |
| 2 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 3 | In order to be able to cope with the increasing enquiry rate at the bureau , an emergency appeal to NACAB for special funding led to the appointment of a fixed-term welfare rights officer . |
| 4 | His enthusiasm led to the formation of a club at his school , Stokesley Primary , and this encouraged other youngsters to learn the game . |
| 5 | Figure 3 shows that , using a linear template , a very reduced amount of transcripts was obtained when the initiating NTPs were omitted , whereas their addition led to the formation of initiated complexes that were resistant to the heparin challenge . |
| 6 | Tokyo : The yen 's continued fall after a discount rate rise led to the year 's second biggest drop in the Nikkei average , which plunged 444.73 to 34,795.34 . |
| 7 | The controversy and litigation to which this gave rise led to the introduction of special controls over caravan sites ( by Part I of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 ) . |
| 8 | When , in March 1858 , the need to cope with the technical questions to which emancipation gave rise led to the creation of two new sections within the ministry — the Land Department and the Statistical Department — it was hardly surprising that Lanskoi and Miliutin staffed them with people who combined specialist knowledge with liberal sympathies . |
| 9 | None the less the electricity industry was fortunate compared with , for example , the coal industry , where politics had long bedevilled management relations with both government and workers , and nationalisation led to the departure of senior managers in larger numbers . |
| 10 | Realization of how little was known about the likely effects of this demographic change led to the production of the first substantial body of data in this country on the experience of ageing in industry and on the relationship of work capacity to ageing : a highly polemical debate received some empirical clothing . |
| 11 | In April 1992 the IRA bomb in St Mary Axe which destroyed the Baltic Exchange and caused about £300m damage led to the preparation of contingency plans as a result of which the consequences of this April 's bomb in Bishopsgate were to some extent mitigated . |
| 12 | His pernickety attitude and lack of experience led to the film going almost 100 per cent over-budget . |
| 13 | Only in the Lepismatidae and the Pterygota , however , has the evolution of transverse biting movements of the mandibles led to the appearance of a strong rigid tentorium . |
| 14 | The lane led to the village one way , and off towards distant farms the other . |
| 15 | Substantial debts led to the dispersal of his estates after his death , but Bognor 's reputation for health and respectability continued to attract royalty and nobility . |
| 16 | Moodie led from the start and never looked like being caught even though late in the race Joey Dunlop put in a spurt and was in second place with one lap to go . |
| 17 | While the public sector pay explosion in the mid-1970s led to the demise of volume planning , the imposition of cash planning has proven a blunt instrument . |
| 18 | Perfusion of the stomach with 25% ethanol for 30 minutes led to the formation of grossly visible injury , which covered 8.6 ( 1.9 ) % ( n=6 ) of the area of the glandular mucosa , as had been previously reported . |
| 19 | In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology . |
| 20 | In Northern Ireland protests about discrimination by local authorities led to the creation of a province wide Housing Executives and in Scotland there is an important nationwide public housing authority to supplement the work of the local authorities . |
| 21 | Disappointment with the 1974 proposals led to the formation of the Disability Alliance , a consortium of groups concerned with the disabled , to continue to fight for a better deal . |
| 22 | A report to the social services sub-committee says : ‘ The elderly and people with mobility problems would be disadvantaged if these proposals led to the closure of small pharmacists in rural communities within the county where there is no convenient alternative . ’ |
| 23 | The Beveridge Report , which formed the basis of much of the post-war social security legislation , contained certain features which in part led to the need to reform the pension system . |
| 24 | The success of this measure led to the deregulation of local bus services in 1986 , involving the break up of the National Bus Company and the introduction of private sector competition . |
| 25 | An exterior stairway led to the entrance at first-floor level , with another storey above ; these would have been the groom 's quarters over the stable itself . |
| 26 | Last June 's vote led to the creationof a 17-strong block called the European Right , consisting of members of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's National Front from France , the Republicans from West Germany ( led by a former Waffen-SS officer , Franz Schonhuber ) , and a Belgian from the wilder shores of Flemish nationalism . |
| 27 | This thinking led to the theory and strategy of ‘ export-led industrialization ’ ( ELI ) . |
| 28 | The Zeebrugge tragedy led to the prosecution of individual members of the crew of the vessel , and the board of the company concerned for unlawful killing , although they were eventually acquitted on the direction of the trial judge . |
| 29 | A double flight of shallow steps led to the door , which was flanked by stone pots of flowers now brilliant with spring colours . |
| 30 | A flight of four wide , curved stone steps led to the doorway , imposing on its pilasters but solidly , unostentatiously , right . |