Example sentences of "led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 2 | Partition led to the migration of ten million people across the newly established borders . |
| 3 | Jay lived best when inspired ; for her love had always been the inspiration ; she lived and wrote from passion , passion which led to the abyss . |
| 4 | By the time she found it , booked a ride for the next day and searched — without success — for tennis courts , and pushed the bike up the steep hill which led to the cottage , it was mid-afternoon . |
| 5 | Later , the introduction of pointes and the ‘ ballerina ’ skirt led to the dominant role of the ballerina at the expense of the male dancer and this brought further changes in the patterns . |
| 6 | David Edward Hughes , whose experiments with the ‘ printing telegraph ’ led to the development of an efficient microphone during the 1870's , has been honoured with a plaque at his former lodgings . |
| 7 | Exactly how long Hughes lived at 94 Portland Street , London , is uncertain but the first experiments which led to the development of the microphone were conducted here during 1878–80 . |
| 8 | Increasing resistance to the alien forces led to the clashes and controversies described in an earlier Chapter . |
| 9 | Bernard Ulrich and colleagues at the University of Gottingen had proposed that deposition of sulphur and nitrogen compounds ( originating from industrial activity and power generation ) led to the release of aluminium from minerals in the soil . |
| 10 | Quick replies by Kelly Shelford and Mark Elia led to the suspicion that New Zealand could score at will and were easing themselves into their stride , but doubts arose early in the second half with a succession of missed chances . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the meantime , the Lebanese parliament , whose members are meeting in Taif a year after their failure to elect a president led to the creation of rival Lebanese cabinets , is itself in the last stages of life . |
| 13 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 14 | The post-tour inquest led to the WRU secretary , David East , and the president , Clive Rowlands , walking out of a general committee meeting . |
| 15 | From Kecskemet , his path led to the party headquarters in Budapest . |
| 16 | There is a paternalistic assumption lurking here , which reminds me of that which led to the disastrous council housing estates of the Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 17 | A gas leak on an unmanned North Sea platform which led to the evacuation of 70 workers from a nearby drilling rig was successfully sealed . |
| 18 | THE NUNS in Northamptonshire who are battling to save their 5,000 chickens from slaughter said yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture had changed its story over the type of salmonella responsible for the outbreak of food poisoning which led to the flock being tested . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The resulting fracas led to the suspension of proceedings for two hours on Wednesday and further rancorous debate yesterday . |
| 22 | The person to bring the first challenge was Tim Crook , a radio journalist , whose campaign for more open justice to the European Commission led to the reforms contained in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 . |
| 23 | Details are emerging of the final stages of the talks which led to the collapse of the bid on Tuesday night . |
| 24 | Similarly , having the wrong attitude is a constituent part of being a ‘ gouger ’ , but there were a few situations when the subsequent application of the gouger typification late into the encounter undercut the effect of the politeness of the offender , and the deference displayed was less important than the knowledge that later led to the use of the typification . |
| 25 | The studies of Ernst Engel in the nineteenth century , led to the conclusion that after income has risen beyond a certain level , there is a decrease in the percentage of total income that is spent on food . |
| 26 | This led to the usual ‘ drinking bout … |
| 27 | Some of the least attractive features of Liverpool society emerged in May 1985 , when a riot of Liverpool football supporters at the Heysel football stadium in Brussels led to the death of many Italian football fans at the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus of Turin . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |