Example sentences of "it led to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to be important because it made it more difficult to score with groin kicks , and it led to narrow stances with the leading foot turned inwards . |
| 2 | It led to a major fracas , in which some tried to get him ‘ unelected ’ , but failed . |
| 3 | It led to a cabinet decision on Tuesday to arrest Mr Mutambara and Mr Chikweche under Zimbabwe 's 24-year-old emergency powers regulations , which were inherited from Ian Smith 's Rhodesia . |
| 4 | It led to Nicholas Ridley 's removal from the Environment department in July 1989 , in favour of the notoriously ‘ wet ’ Chris Patten . |
| 5 | It led to a period of sharp retrenchment and redundancies , a situation that at the time was very foreign to ICi which had been accustomed to unrestricted expansion in practically everything it undertook . |
| 6 | Because of its incorporation into the ‘ history ’ of mankind it led to totally fallacious ideas which even today unwittingly mislead many Marxists . |
| 7 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 8 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 9 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 10 | The first , by a Bank of England official , must be presumed to have been highly critical because it led to drastic reform of the island 's supervisory procedures . |
| 11 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 12 | It led to the creation in Moscow in May 1989 of the World Association of Nuclear Operators . |
| 13 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 14 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |
| 15 | It led to unprecedented openness towards the IAEA . |
| 16 | According to Richard Baxter , for example , it led to the arrogance of ‘ idle boys who tear out all the hard leaves of their books and say they have learned all when they have learned the rest ’ . |
| 17 | Indeed , it led to the so-called Euro-communism of the 1970s , when communist parties with quite substantial support , as in Spain , Portugal and Italy , began to distance themselves from the policies of the Soviet Union and its satellites . |
| 18 | It led to the Parliament Bill which proposed to restrict the power of the Lords , also introducing a limit of five years for the life of any Parliament , and strengthened the position of Mr. Asquith as Prime Minister . |
| 19 | The remainder of Ireland became known as the Free State of Eire , but disagreement about that partition of Ireland became an inflamed issue within the Free State , and it led to bloody civil war there , after 50,000 British troops were withdrawn , in 1922 . |
| 20 | The policy became known under the slogan ‘ Wandel durch Annäherung ’ ( encouraging change through rapprochement ) and it led to huge financial subsidies to one of the most brutal regimes in Europe , considerably increasing the standard of living in East Germany and thus legitimising the absurd claims of Honecker and Ulbricht to have created ‘ real existing socialism ’ . |
| 21 | It led to the highest floor where we found an Iraqi soldier firing an automatic rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags , reloading and firing his weapon until he became exhausted . |
| 22 | In August violence , which began in Derry , spread to Belfast where it led to serious sectarian clashes and resulted in the intervention of the Westminster government and the arrival of British troops . |
| 23 | This was neither the basic approach of Raistrick to fungal metabolism , nor quite the same concept as that of antibiosis , but it led to a similar outcome , the possible discovery of a microbial agent which could destroy the microbes that caused disease . |
| 24 | In the Christian case , it led to the periodization of history , a chronological method that we still use , although nowadays we approach history from a purely secular point of view . |
| 25 | An important consequence of the introduction of mechanical clocks was that in much of western Europe it led to the adoption of the uniform hour of sixty minutes . |
| 26 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |
| 27 | i.e. Theobald 's Road , leading from Southampton Row to Gray 's Inn Road , north of Holborn , east London , so named because it led to Theobalds in Hertfordshire where King James I had a hunting lodge in the early seventeenth century . |
| 28 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 29 | First , it kept the school-leaver within the realms of dependence , emphasizing the need for guidance and employment advice ; and , secondly , it led to the eruption of a lively dispute between the Board of Education and the Board of Trade over which department should have final authority for adolescent workers in the administration of the Labour Exchanges Act 1909 . |
| 30 | Among other things , it led to the extinction of a distinctive species of Sicilian vulture . |