Example sentences of "[Wh pn] led [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We believe there was an explosion and the fire flashed up his back , ’ said Alan Powles , who led a 19-strong team fighting the fire . |
| 2 | It is said that he was an adventurer , one of those restless souls who led a small band of followers from the eternal peace of Avelorn to seek his fate in distant lands . |
| 3 | Tranmere chief executive Frank Corfe , who led a powerful delegation to today 's meeting , said ‘ We are absolutely delighted . |
| 4 | It 's a secret that the man who led a double life has taken with his to the grave . |
| 5 | Divisional Fire Officer Brian Bell , who led a 25-strong team at the scene said : ‘ If just one tanker of acid had spilled , it could have wiped away half of North Tees . ’ |
| 6 | His picture of the democratic tyranny of Athenion , the Aristotelian who led the anti-Roman movement in Athens in 87 , is the most hostile image of a popular leader in Greek literature — and I know of few comparable portraits in other literatures ( fr. 36 Jacoby ) . |
| 7 | Can he rise again , or is it all over for the Moses who led the Labour Party out of the wilderness , asks James Langton |
| 8 | In Britain their cause has been championed by Glynn Christian — writer , broadcaster , TV gourmet and great-great-great-great grandson of Fletcher Christian who led the famous mutiny in 1798 . |
| 9 | THE man who led the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers lost his job yesterday as national president . |
| 10 | Jenny Weinstein , CCETSW 's head of practice learning who led the working party , said some members wanted a reduction in the numbers of students entering DipSW courses . |
| 11 | The probable father-and-son relationship between Beornhaeth , who was associated with Ecgfrith in his defeat of the Picts in the early 670s , and Berht , who led the Northumbrian forces into Uí Néill territory in Ireland in 684 , even suggests Irish support for the Picts in their wars with the northern Angles . |
| 12 | Who led the Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947 ? |
| 13 | Col. Khalifah , who led the Sudanese delegation to the unsuccessful peace talks with the southern rebels of the Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) in 1989 , had recently been retired from the army and relieved of his post on the RCC . |
| 14 | Thanks to Vo Quy — who led the first team of Vietnamese scientists south of the seventeenth parallel to investigate the environmental damage caused during the US/Vietnam war — almost every student in Vietnam plants one to three trees per year as part of the school curriculum . |
| 15 | By sad contrast , the people who led the bloodless revolution last autumn — many of them artists , writers , musicians and teachers — were eclipsed at the polls . |
| 16 | The Welshmen , crouching low and running like hares , overtook the two who led the laden horse only a matter of minutes before they were themselves overtaken . |
| 17 | An interesting parallel for this is provided by an exhibition that has just opened in East Berlin , commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Muntzer , the theologian and Protestant reformer , who led the 16th-century Peasants ' Revolt . |
| 18 | Moreover , it reported some of the speeches and activities of Nyerere , who led the nationalist party ( TANU ) from its formation in 1954 . |
| 19 | Pat Hanson , who led the successful Hall Garth team Vanessa Conning , Gail Hall , Mark Jackson , Tom Newbould and Keith Webber said they had put in a lot of hard work . |
| 20 | Four months later it was Legasov who led the Soviet delegation to the Vienna conference on the disaster , and it was the forcefulness of his opening five-hour speech that established the conventional wisdom about Chernobyl : that it had been caused by human error among the operators , that the measures taken to protect the population had been adequate , and that the Soviet Union had nothing to hide . |
| 21 | He who led the young men [ Ollokot ] is dead . |
| 22 | An original play which examines the strengths and failings of some of the characters who led the Chartist movement , one of the most important political events of the C19th . |
| 23 | The man who led the allied troops in the Gulf War has just launched his autobiography . |
| 24 | The Foreign Secretary , J. N. Dixit , who led the Indian delegation , stressed , however , in a statement on March 9 , that India did not intend to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) or to participate in any five-state conference on the NPT involving China , India , Pakistan , Russia and the USA [ see also p. 38289 ] . |
| 25 | It was people like me , with no money for such things , who led the interesting lives . |
| 26 | In May 1990 we carried out our own investigation into the story of the alleged " Bleiburg Massacre " , with the aid of Dr Aripand Thurn-Valsassina , the owner of Bleiburg Castle and Mr Robert Plan of the American OSS who led the leading column of the Croats to Bleiburg ( both of whom were present when Brig Scott received the Croat Generals ) , and of Yugoslav historians who have been carrying out their own researches into the massacres in Yugoslavia in 1945 . |
| 27 | Guillaume understood that Zborowski , ‘ who led the same kind of life as Modigliani , haunted the cafés with him ’ , would be far more suitable . |
| 28 | The chief coach who led the British squad to three swim golds in the 1988 Seoul Games was bailed without charge . |
| 29 | One of the breed of working class Northern actors who led the British cinema revival in the early Sixties and equally , one of those who turned their backs on Hollywood for more satisfying , artistically if not financially , work in the theatre . |
| 30 | ‘ Some burglars have hidden stolen property in the hedge of the house they have broken into , ’ said Detective Inspector Jon Shatford , who led the 150 officers carrying out the raids in Operation Bumblebee . |