Example sentences of "led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one knew what had first led to the rumour that soon images would die , nor how the rumour had grown into conviction and conviction into certainty . |
| 2 | The modern desire for open-plan has led to the removal of many bar-partitions , destroying the character of original interiors and distorting any attempt to create a truly ‘ Victorian ’ interior . |
| 3 | And it has led to the introduction of new technologies for the direct investigation of the relationships between brain , behaviour and external events , the subject of the present chapter . |
| 4 | These have led to the same stereotyping of characters as happens in classical ballet . |
| 5 | The need to monitor that experiment and the conviction that the court would benefit from improved lines of communication between it and those who used the court , either as practitioners or as litigants , had led to the establishment of a Court of Appeal Users ' Committee , representative of both , which would have its first meeting later this month . |
| 6 | The Central Region also lacked those national and religious minorities whose commonly held views in some borderlands had bridged the psychological gap between town and country and had led to the formation of political parties after 1905 . |
| 7 | The lucrative sugar-beet industry had led to the buying up of large tracts of land before the World War . |
| 8 | It had also led to the adoption of military influences in Bolshevik governmental organization and propaganda jargon which did not disappear at the end of the Civil War . |
| 9 | In the case of the famine of 1921–2 , a sudden alteration in the agricultural setting deeply affected , not just the local peasantry , but all the other provinces of European Russia and the very basis of the economic and political calculations that had led to the introduction of the NEP in the first place . |
| 10 | Yet this interventionism has not led to the creation of anything approaching an Executive Office . |
| 11 | This has led to the tying of aid to a large extent to inappropriate or unduly expensive goods from the donor 's country , to sharp annual variations in the volume of aid flows and to a lack of commitment to real coordination with other donors . |
| 12 | Criticism of aid from both left and right , particularly in recent years , has led to the establishment of evaluation units within most of the major donor agencies . |
| 13 | More problematic is the way in which such a dislocation has led to the acceptance of her ‘ Mexicanness ’ as mere decoration of the essentially feminist themes of her work , thereby defusing a substantial part of the art described by Breton as a ‘ ribbon round a bomb ’ . |
| 14 | ( Although the caste system in India has led to the attitude that it is more attractive to be light skinned than dark , this extreme fear of getting black does not exist in India or Pakistan . ) |
| 15 | ‘ Preoccupation with Cd values has led to the boring shapes we have become all too familiar with . ’ |
| 16 | The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe . |
| 17 | The logical re-use of existing services has led to the retention of the overly utilitarian postwar outshot when it would have been better to demolish it and to restore the four-square appearance of the pre-war building . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps those are sounds you could use in your own composition , ’ speculates the school 's head of music , Paul Chamberlain , whose quest for strange noises has led to the possibility of him poaching the National Curriculum 's science of sound course from Fartown 's physics department . |
| 19 | The disclosure has led to the closure of the nursery -but the stock could only be sold for £26,246 because most growers had made their seasonal purchases . |
| 20 | It was not regulation , but the decisions of individual consumers , and industry 's response , which had led to the development of ozone-friendly products , bio-degradable plastics , and phosphate-free detergents . ’ |
| 21 | POOR workmanship , inadequate supervision and slipshod design standards have led to the £400 million bill for extra repair and maintenance on roads and bridges . |
| 22 | Toxic chemicals seeping from a defence plant have killed three miners and led to the closing of the Gorlovka pit , one of the largest in the Donbass , Jonathan Steele writes from Moscow . |
| 23 | A later inquiry blamed BR for ‘ unacceptable and dangerous ’ work practices , and revealed that faulty wiring in trackside signalling equipment had led to the crash . |
| 24 | The use of high frequency sound should have led to the development of sound-processing pans of the brain , although it is not clear whether any extinct form had as large a brain cavity as seen in some modern delphinids . |
| 25 | Another sign is the campaign against the fur trade launched by animal-rights activists , which has led to the bankruptcy of several furriers . |
| 26 | For these mistakes have led to the belief that extension , the subject-matter of geometry , is infinitely divisible , a belief ‘ thought to have so inseparable and essential a connection with the principles and demonstrations in geometry , that mathematicians never … make the least question of it ’ . |
| 27 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 28 | Many countries have an offence of ‘ abuse of authority ’ to differentiate these crimes , in accord with the principle of fair labelling ( Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) , but anxieties about the problem of listing the types of authority ( should it include persons undertaking voluntary responsibility , such as choirmasters and youth-club leaders ? ) have led to the continuation of the pragmatic all-encompassing provisions in England and Wales . |
| 29 | All this second-generation old school stuff is shite on wheels and has led to the emergence of the Old School Fool , a mug with a large disposable income who is prepared to cough up half a week 's wages for anything he perceives to be pre-Day-Glo sportswear . |
| 30 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |