Example sentences of "had led [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planned before the Gulf war , it formed part of the government 's privatization programme which had led between 1987 and 1990 to the privatization of some 80 state-owned businesses . |
| 2 | It went with the sacking of the first violin , Marie-Alexandre Guenin ( 1744–1835 ) , who had led since 1783 . |
| 3 | The road he followed marked the seasonal migration of sheep from the treeless limestone plateau further inland to the watered valleys around ; it had led across this terrain since the Romans had farmed there . |
| 4 | The conditions were primitive — no electricity or running water — and in a way it was a continuation of the life we had led on Lewis , except that the extended family had now shrunk to a nuclear and very isolated one . |
| 5 | Vargas Llosa , who had led on the first round on April 8 [ see p. 37371 ] , now won only 2,713,442 ( 33.92 per cent ) . |
| 6 | An earlier investigation into corruption and infighting within different factions of the Brussels criminal investigation department had led on April 21 to the suspension of several officers and to the dismissal of their chief , Franz Reyniers , charged with fraud and accepting bribes . |
| 7 | Another victory in the incandescent heat of Austria , where Stewart had led for twenty-three laps , brought Emerson to Monza with the title within his grasp : he needed just three points to clinch the championship . |
| 8 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 9 | De Lorenzi had led at seven under par after opening rounds of 67 and 70 , three strokes clear of Sweden 's Sofia Gronberg with Davies a further three strokes behind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My new friend and I had picked up two mad women , I said , and we 'd taken lots of this and that and one thing had led to another , as often happens when young people get together . |
| 12 | The setting-up of the large departments of Environment and Trade and Industry in 1970 had led to an enquiry into the provision of Government legal services . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The lucrative sugar-beet industry had led to the buying up of large tracts of land before the World War . |
| 15 | Military violence had led to civil coercion in many forms , of which the Secret police in peacetime was the most notorious example . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The reduction in numbers was still startlingly small — for example , even after the convertibility crisis of 1947 had led to a further downward revision of the targets for 31 March 1948 , there were still 937,000 in uniform , supported by 350,000 in supplying industries . |
| 18 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Earlier reports that Chancellor Kohl had suggested delaying fixing the date for a special EC conference on monetary union for a year had led to a stark and none too veiled warning from the President of the European Commission , Mr Jacques Delors , that this might plunge EC relations with West Germany ‘ into a serious crisis ’ . |
| 21 | He disclosed that the crisis in the inspectorate had led to 32 vacancies in a professional staff of 135 in October . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Here he directly develops the interest which he and his friends in the discussion group had , and which had led to his starting work on the Essay : the relation and interplay between knowledge and reason on the one hand , and faith , belief , and revelation on the other . |
| 24 | He reflected on the options which had been open to him , one of which had led to his downfall . |
| 25 | In the face of mounting defeats , personal losses , misery , and sacrifice , Hitler 's earlier successes began to be seen in a new light , and he was now increasingly blamed for policies which had led to the war , and for his failure to terminate the war and produce the desired peace . |
| 26 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 27 | That had led to his sudden and unexpected collapse , the heart giving out . |
| 28 | His own break with Rome in the 1530s had led to strenuous efforts to persuade his nephew James V to do likewise , and to desert France for England . |
| 29 | She had earlier launched a claim that sex discrimination by senior officers and the Home Office had led to her being passed over for promotion nine times . |
| 30 | But several of his supporters agreed with Mr John Patten , the former Home Affairs Minister , who spoke of the ‘ wicked , old-fashioned racism ’ that had led to the overturning of the 4,896 Tory majority and brought shame to the spa town . |