Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] lead to the " in BNC.
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1 | Kuwait was invaded and annexed by Iraq in August , a move which in January 1991 led to the outbreak of war and in late February to the defeat and expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait . |
2 | A second coup by Rabuka on Sept. 25 led to the revocation of the Constitution and the establishment of the Republic of Fiji on Oct. 6 . |
3 | The outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire in October 1768 led to the suspension of its work ; and the explosion of the great peasant and Cossack revolt led by Pugachev in June 1773 ensured that it was not reconvened . |
4 | However , following Noriega 's formal assumption of power on Dec. 15 as head of state , a United States military invasion of Dec. 20 led to the overthrow of Noriega and the immediate installation of Guillermo Endara Galimany ( widely believed to have won the May elections ) as President [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
5 | Orlov and others engineered factional strife in the Ministry of State Properties which in April 1857 led to the appointment as minister of M. N. Murav'ev , a man who believed that " the question [ of emancipation ] had been dreamed up by … academics , theoreticians , [ and ] sons of priests ' and who planned to treat state-owned peasants as harshly as serfs . |
6 | The freeing of political parties in March 1990 led to the formation of numerous new parties and the emergence as official opposition of some of those which had been operating within the FNDR . |
7 | Widespread riots in June 1990 led to the provincial parliament being dissolved by the Serbian Assembly , and the effective removal under Serbia 's new constitution of the province 's autonomy [ see pp. 37621 ; 37725-26 ] , after which Kosovo was controlled by the police . |