Example sentences of "that lead to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Paternoster Square , Lipton was involved in the competition that led to the appointment of Arup Associates , whose scheme was promptly criticised by Prince Charles . |
| 2 | It was in Silesia that a marvellous Tottenham Hotspur team , League champions and FA Cup winners in 1961 , were first introduced to the hazards of European competition , their ambitions in disarray until Dave Mackay inspired a partial recovery that led to a 8-1 success in the return at White Hart Lane . |
| 3 | There are some very good photographs and some intriguing snippets of information — Michael Bowyer tells how the Operational Requirement that led to the Hampden and Wellington specified that the aircraft should have folding wings for hangar storage ! |
| 4 | What it could not agree on was how the budget was to be balanced ; and it was this disagreement that led to the break-up of the government . |
| 5 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 6 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 7 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 8 | In the beginning there was carbon , and after several generations of Super Novae there was the solar system and then there were a whole lot of trees and they all fell down plonk into bogs and got turned into coal , and that led to the dinosaurs and that led to the mammals and that led to humans and that led to the miners . ’ |
| 9 | A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate . |
| 10 | At last we had reached a road that led to a place called Ritjemjokk where we telephoned home and did all the civilized things in life ; like sitting on a loo seat , for a long time . |
| 11 | The twenty-four were tried by a court of law in the proper way , but the black community and the police began a dialogue that led to far better relations between the two than there had ever been before . |
| 12 | When he passed the entry that led to the bathrooms and toilets , he became more circumspect . |
| 13 | The new legislation encouraged them into a buying spree that led to their picking up such distribution companies as Ideal and C. M. Woolf 's W&F Film Services , and sufficient cinema circuits to build a chain of 316 theatres . |
| 14 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 15 | Together with the agreement that led to the lifting of the Ad Valorem duties , which required US companies to invest a certain proportion of their earnings in Britain , Eady led to a considerable increase in British-based American production . |
| 16 | We have taken steps to ensure that the circumstances that led to this tragedy can never be repeated . ’ |
| 17 | But the political spite it betrayed must at least rank as a contributory factor in the sequence of events that led to Clapham and King 's Cross . |
| 18 | In the slow introduction Tennstedt made it clear that this was to be a reading of high , dramatic contrasts , and that led to an account of the Vivace which with its sprung rhythms kept relaxing into pastoral moments without loss of pace or power . |
| 19 | THE back office problems that led to last month 's suspension of Dumenil unit trusts were identified six months ago in a document that put the group up for sale . |
| 20 | All the relevant facts were before the two magistrates who were weighing them up to decide whether it was more likely than not that there was prejudice and unfairness that led to an abuse of the process . |
| 21 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 22 | 1957 : Duncan Sandys ' ‘ Big Bang ’ philosophy , that led to the end of National Service ; 1965 : Denis Healey 's rolling Defence reviews , ending in the withdrawal from East of Suez ; 1974 : Roy Mason 's concentration of resources on Western European Defence , taking the withdrawal from empire to its logical conclusion ; 1981 : John Nott 's intended sacrifice of Maritime in favour of Continental capability , that was aborted by the Falklands Campaign . |
| 23 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 24 | His energetic , though convoluted , diplomacy gave reality to ‘ containment ’ with the formation of SEATO in May 1954 ; the extension of the Brussels Treaty in 1954 to include the rearmament of West Germany and the British pledge to keep four divisions on the Continent ; and the signing of the Baghdad Pact in February 1955 that led to the formation of CENTO in 1957 . |
| 25 | Mrs Marcos may believe that America still has the final say in Philippine affairs ; after all , America persuaded her husband to call the election that led to his downfall in 1986 . |
| 26 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |
| 27 | Hindus have long fled the rural parts of Punjab ; now some Sikhs are joining the exodus , disgusted by terrorist excesses that led to 3,787 deaths last year and about 1,500 so far this year . |
| 28 | But scientists are impressed by the way Mr Kingdon has identified the sequence of evolutionary accidents that led to Africa 's strange mosaic of rich ecosystems ; and conservationists find in it a way to explain rarity and extinction . |
| 29 | Indeed , it was a consciousness of this problem that led to his earlier book , The New Theory of Vision . |
| 30 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |