Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] lead to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uncertainty which the food shortage created also led to the hoarding of food by those fortunate enough to be able to purchase it . |
| 2 | The sacred tree cult mentioned earlier led to the building of enclosure walls round individual trees or groups of trees thought to have been visited by deities . |
| 3 | Applying to the inhibitory case the analysis of conditioning presented above leads to the suggestion that one of the associative links likely to be formed will be between the CS and a representation of no event . |
| 4 | It was the attempt by the men to boycott these employers , energetically undertaken , that had eventually led to the collapse , through debt , of the Northern District Board ( the predecessor of the STA ) in 1847. " - In later years several of the STA 's " forward movements " , that is claims for higher pay or shorter hours , began in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | In the ethnically mixed Tamil , Moslem and Sinhalese Buddhist areas of eastern Sri Lanka , where inter-group violence since 1990 had effectively led to the creation of a series of mutually hostile ghettoes defended by informal militias , the government blamed the LTTE for three major attacks during April , involving the killing of 11 fishermen off Trincomalee on April 3 , of 17 men , women and children in a village further south on April 14 , and of 22 more on April 20 at Neadalla near Monaragala . |
| 6 | He said that it had already led to the curtailment of five drilling contracts with thousands of potential job losses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For James , the game was the invention of ‘ the whole body of the people ’ who , following the disappearance of Carnival from Europe , wanted organised sports because these were ‘ … institutions that they helped to found and continue , as surely as their working-class struggles led to the formation of trade unions , as their struggles for the right to vote had also led to the founding of modern mass-political parties , to the grounding of the concept of democracy ’ . |
| 9 | A major military offensive launched on Dec. 9 against the FARC headquarters at Casa Verde , 200 km south of the capital , Bogotá , had reportedly led to the death of 60 guerrillas and 20 soldiers , but the FARC leadership had apparently escaped . |
| 10 | A year-long investigation by a congressional commission had earlier led to the removal of García 's constitutional immunity from prosecution [ see p. 38387 ] . |