Example sentences of "which [vb past] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bullingdon is one of twelve prisons designed to ease the problem of overcrowding , which led to disturbances and riots at jails like Strangeways.Here , they 'll cater for 635 inmates in single or double cells with toilet facilities . |
| 2 | It was this statement of the law which led to outcries that it was a ‘ Rapist 's Charter ’ . |
| 3 | This was the reasoning which led to discussions on the possibility of a European Political Community . |
| 4 | It was his behaviour which led to problems in the marriage . |
| 5 | The 1990 disturbances were only the latest in a series of eruptions — in 1986,1988 and 1989 , which led to injuries and damage to prison buildings and equipment . |
| 6 | The didacticism of the nineteenth century which led to projects such as the Victoria and Albert Museum , the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Exposition Universelle of 1878 , gave birth to one of Paris 's great museums . |
| 7 | Support for it has come from the observation that both the brain and the conventional digital computer ( i.e. the one hard-wired only for its machine code ) seem to be surprisingly homogeneous in their internal structure , which led to remarks like Newell 's ( 1973 ) ‘ … intelligent behaviour demands only a few very general features in the underlying mechanism ’ . |
| 8 | At a time when the Royal Commission is examining the imbalance of resources available to the defence which led to miscarriages of justice , the Government is cutting access to legal help for the accused . |
| 9 | Many of the post-war inquiries were into big , difficult subjects , like the investigation carried out by Sir Edmund Compton into allegations of security force brutality in Northern Ireland , or the inquiry by Sir John Wolfenden into homosexual offences and prostitution , which led to changes in the law . |
| 10 | Mick Clarke and William Joyce pioneered the soapbox oratory which led to fights and attacks , sometimes by Fascists and sometimes by their opponents . |
| 11 | It all culminated in three days of frustration which led to complaints of ‘ disgusting crowd behaviour ’ from the German players . |
| 12 | Efforts to establish professional standards and provide a sound educational basis for doctors were accompanied by anxieties about their status , which led to doctors often adopting , it seemed to their critics , a priest-like role . |
| 13 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 14 | Investigators are working to establish whether vandals caused the fault in North Shields which led to trains being cancelled between Tynemouth nd Wallsend . |
| 15 | After 1898 the latter two of these castes were also excluded , a fact which led to protests from élite Salagamas when it became generally known . |
| 16 | There was subsequent correspondence with the Board of Trade , enquiring whether Parliamentary Powers and an inspection would be necessary for those lines which led to depôts and on which a public service would never be provided . |
| 17 | Four years ago , I argued with the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Security about the Fowler review , which led to cuts in income support . |
| 18 | John Mabb , UK director of the NZ Meat Producers Board , made only the briefest of references to last year 's imports of chilled lamb into Scotland which led to recriminations from farmers . |
| 19 | The Jack transfer was the first to command a five-figure fee , despite the fact that Arsenal were continuing to propose limits on transfer fees , which led to accusations of hypocrisy . |
| 20 | Some began to negotiate better terms for their own patients which led to accusations of a two-tier service . |
| 21 | It is understood that a teenage girl went with her mother to police in Southampton and made a statement which led to detectives reopening the inquiry . |
| 22 | It was an article of faith which led to disputes with the RCM and lively discussions between Rebecca Sieff and her younger sister , Elaine Blond . |
| 23 | It should also be noted that " credit " is available for earlier dispositions which are associated operations which amounted to transfers of value except where the disposition was made to a spouse . |
| 24 | Measures included ( i ) the elimination of taxes on fuel and gas oils and on kerosene ; ( ii ) extended tax rebates for exporters , calculated to be worth between US$670,000,000 and US$1,100 million per annum ; ( iii ) the reduction of the highest import tariff from 35 per cent to 20 per cent ; ( iv ) tariff increases for many intermediate industrial products , but the maintenance at zero of the minimum import tariff , which applied to fuels and capital goods not domestically produced ; and ( v ) a " temporary " increase , from 3 to 10 per cent , in a statistics tax levied on nearly all imports . |
| 25 | While they do not mark a return to a prescribed curriculum ( like that which applied to schools in England and Wales before 1926 ) , they do signify a subtle change of direction . |
| 26 | The squadron , which moved to Uplands in 1955 , has over the years operated a variety of transport aircraft , viz North Stars , a C-5 , Comet 1As , Yukons and Cosmopolitans . |
| 27 | I should add that the court 's answer in paragraph 19 to question 2(b) , which referred to claims in ‘ tort and contract and for unjust enrichment ’ ( emphasis added ) would seem to have the effect of ruling out the third heading since it is a restitutionary claim not based on tort . |
| 28 | By the 1880s the Longhorn was almost extinct but always regarded with a certain fondness as a quaint and essentially useful animal which appealed to cattle-lovers in spite of its commercial faults . |
| 29 | Georg Schwafenberger 's book The Legality of Nuclear Weapons ( 1958 , pp. 47–9 ) reached conclusions which came to terms more with the by then widespread possession of nuclear weapons . |
| 30 | The very first working was by No 3202 which hauled to coaches . |