Example sentences of "[noun pl] led [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous day the Pentagon had issued a statement claiming that the photograph had passed through the hands of a " ring of Cambodia opportunists led by a well-known and admitted fabricator " of information about MIAs . |
| 2 | ‘ Coincidentally , we are now seeing coming out of Eastern Europe that same broad attitude being adopted , not only by the democratic socialists and social democratic parties which are emerging in the East , but also amongst the reform wings of the old Communist parties led by a new generation who realise the command economy Stalinist game is completely up . |
| 3 | Some 350 Army mutineers led by a renegade colonel , Alexander Noble , on Oct. 4 seized two key military bases in the Northern Mindanao provincial capitals of Butuan and Cagayan de Oro . |
| 4 | Yet had the visitors been England or Australia he may well not have been able to resist the temptation , and this was only partly because they were the leading lights in world cricket ; there was also the racial aspect , in that he passionately wanted to prove that a team of black players led by a black captain was the equal of , if not better than , the white teams . |
| 5 | The mistaken identification of some red dye , accidentally spilled on a window sill , as blood , led to a riot that was only broken up when the mob was charged by soldiers led by a cutlass-wielding town councillor on horseback . |