Example sentences of "[adj] led [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 .
2 That led to the Hundred Years War , and in the summer of 1346 , Edward III landed in Normandy and that led to the battle of Crecy on 26th .
3 That led to the Royal arms we know today — England or Scotland in the first and fourth quarters , Ireland in the third quarter and Scotland or England in the second .
4 Although , therefore , the seizure was not intended to be permanent , conventual houses were largely unmolested , and wherever possible existing religious were allowed to farm the alien priories , the protraction of the war and the intention of the king to profit from this source as much as possible led to the permanent secularization of some monastic lands , and the extended management and farming of others by laymen as well as by royal clerks .
5 This led into a Victorian style kitchen with a tiled floor and copper skillets hanging in the middle of the room .
6 This led to a substantial increase in platelet cholesterol concentration , the bulk of this increase being associated with the platelet membrane .
7 This led to a constructive discussion in which the employee volunteered to give up his supervisory role and instead concentrate on other activities at which he was better and actually preferred .
8 Behaviour was subject to the decrees of custom and this led to a strong emphasis on pragmatism and the averting of any confrontation .
9 This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles .
10 This led to a certain amount of friction between the Gardener ( Hortulanus ) and the Keeper of the Garden ( Praefectus Horti ) , Isaac Rand , who , in accordance with his office , published in the same year Index Plantarum officinalium quae in Horto Chelseiano .
11 This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued .
12 This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord .
13 This led to a general disillusionment with house-planning which today means that the Council planning policy is honoured more often in the breach than in anything else .
14 A great many civil posts — postal officials , customs officers , policemen , street cleaners — were duplicated and this led to a serious imbalance between the non-productive bureaucracy and the private sector production workers .
15 Ministers also hoped that employers would cut out overmanning and root out inefficiency , even if this led to a temporary surge in unemployment .
16 This led to a circuitous discussion with Paul Lexington about whether it was sound equipment or not , which was only settled after much wrangling ( and , almost definitely , money changing hands ) .
17 This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 .
18 This led to a deep conflict within himself which carried with it the handicap that he did not really understand the ordinary world , was remote from everyday life , and so lacked balance .
19 According to Koenig , this led to a month-long orgy involving virgins and she-asses garlanded for the occasion .
20 Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive .
21 In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life .
22 This led to a heated family argument , the daughter not wanting to leave her family , the husband not wanting to lose his wife , and the father indicating that this was not what he intended .
23 This led to a two mile chase on my bicycle following his refusal to answer my questions and a final on the deserted marshes where large quantities of tobacco had to be recovered from the long grass in a grey December dawn .
24 This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered .
25 This led to a military standoff between French and American troops and a bitter rebuke from President Truman .
26 This led to a rapid drop in pressure in the primary cooling system , and to the leak of some 20 tons of radioactive coolant into the secondary system .
27 This led to a large increase in the number of false positives , yet still did not ensure that the correct word was always the highest scoring .
28 This led to a lucrative offer from Hollywood .
29 This led to a local outcry and priests at St. Mary 's Westport stated , ‘ We are clearly and categorically opposed to mining on CP ’ .
30 This led to a fourth type of work which discussed the nature and limits of philosophy itself and whether there was any place for women in it , and considered whether the basic assumptions of philosophy included or excluded women .
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