Example sentences of "[noun sg] had led [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Labour leaders ' caution was understandable in the light of the amendments made to the party constitution after the break with Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 , the last leader to have favoured a coalition government , whose action had led to a split in the party and his expulsion from membership . |
| 2 | And , after the 1988 Education Reform Act , one question was whether that reform had led to a new education service in England and Wales . |
| 3 | The West German financial community had claimed that the tax had led to a flight of capital out of the country , thus creating upward pressure on domestic interest rates . |
| 4 | The heterogeneous nature of its object had led to a heterogeneous discipline , and it was only by making literariness the object of its enquiry that literary science could exist as an independent and indeed as a coherent and systematic type of study . |
| 5 | Public concern about price liberalization had led to a wave of panic buying which had emptied shops in the last days of December . |
| 6 | the extent to which devolution had led to a change in personal level of job satisfaction ; |
| 7 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 8 | At the newer universities and polytechnics the process of institutional growth had led to a variety of adjustments both in the modes of teaching ( most notably through the introduction of the seminar ) and curriculum ( with a more modern and selective emphasis , and the use of the period study ) . |
| 9 | Meanwhile successive years of minimal house building had led to a national housing shortage , variously estimated at between 400,000 and 800,000 dwellings . |
| 10 | A YOUNG man 's distinctive T-shirt had led to a case of mistaken identity . |
| 11 | Yet it was undeniable that the Conservative political pressure to extend rural electrification had led to a diversion of scarce capital resources into investments which were known to be unremunerative and in fact turned out to be so . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ . |
| 14 | One major lesson drawn from the 1981 riots in Britain by the authorities was that this style of policing had led to a growing gulf between the police and the communities in which it worked . |