Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 2 | The last folly was finished in nineteen thirty-six and provoked such a public outcry that it led to the first-ever planning inquiry . |
| 3 | The Gay News Defence Campaign may not have won the case for the paper , but it helped the community maintain a sense of strength and it led to the setting up of the Gay Activists Alliance . |
| 4 | This galvanised the National Agent , R. T. Windle , into making plans for an individual membership campaign early in 1944 ; and it led to the executive summoning a conference of trade union officers so as to encourage them to contribute to a general election fund and to increase the proportion of their contracting-in membership — which was much less than half the total membership they reported to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 5 | Other regions of Scotland were to follow that lead and it led to the formation of the the Scottish Golf Union which , today , has 16 member areas . |
| 6 | In an internal memorandum leaked this week , some suggested stressing the strategic and political danger that Palestinian self-government would cause if it led to the creation of an independent Palestinian state . |
| 7 | Exhibiting in his local village of Stoodleigh in Devon was intended to be little more than a spring clean of his workshop for ceramicist Chris Speyer , but it led to the launch of Yerja Ceramics . |
| 8 | The expedition was a military failure , but it led to the treaty of Brétigny of May 1360 , which gave Edward the lands ceded to him in 1358 with a ransom reduced to 3,000,000 gold crowns . |
| 9 | This event was of great significance for the development of landscapes on a continental scale because it led to the establishment of new base levels for continental erosion . |
| 10 | If so , it was inspired lunacy , for it led to the creation of such classics from the Big Four in UA 's first decade as Griffith 's Way Down East , Fairbanks 's The Thief of Baghdad , Pickford 's Little Lord Fauntleroy , and Chaplin 's The Gold Rush . |