Example sentences of "which [vb past] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which led to all sorts of strange behaviour . |
| 2 | The Psittacidae , he always claimed , was ‘ the first book of the kind drawn on stone in England of so large a size , & … one which led to all Mr Gould 's improvements . ’ |
| 3 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 4 | The following year a further scheme of the Charity Commissioners set up an education system which led to that enjoyed today . |
| 5 | This was a policy which led to many disagreements with his timid employers , and he waged a vigorous guerrilla campaign against the prudery and philistinism of the BBC hierarchy . |
| 6 | This dismal monumentalism is the apotheosis of impersonality , a confirmation rather than a denial of the mindset which led to such slaughter in the first place , though the architect intended no irony . |
| 7 | The pictures which led to such demand for the Daily Mirror that the Sold Out signs went up at newsagents all over the country . |
| 8 | Verdicts were , however , subject to ‘ review ’ by the Supreme Court on six rather ill-defined grounds , a procedure which led to much confusion . |
| 9 | Particularly successful aspects of the talk were the invitation to contributions from the floor , which led to several interesting points being made , and the mix of old photographs from the heyday of steam with modern ones mostly taken by himself . |
| 10 | He was a conscientious and hard worker , filled with a sense of mission which led to some misinterpretation by the Whig-Liberal group . |
| 11 | The demonstration ( which led to some violence ) was organised by the " Stop State Snooping " committee , whose members included representatives of the Social Democratic Party , one of the four governing coalition parties . |
| 12 | Goals from John Morrissey , John Aldridge and Neil McNab put paid to Southend in front of 5,870 fans , but there was a slack spell in the second half which led to some booing . |
| 13 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 14 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) details the strategy developed for London , and outlines the social , economic and political reasons which led to this particular form of local policy being adopted for London . |
| 15 | While admitting that it was originally the understatement of German earnings which led to this move by the German analysts , in this we nevertheless have a model on which to work . |
| 16 | Significantly , it was the consul with a Greek surname , Q. Publilius Philo , who was entrusted with the drive into Campania which led to this pact in 326 . |
| 17 | The drug squads discovered more cases of drug use , which led to more police manpower and money being invested , which led to more discovery . |
| 18 | The drug squads discovered more cases of drug use , which led to more police manpower and money being invested , which led to more discovery . |
| 19 | A later chapter will explore the process of conversion and persuasion which led to those structural changes which gathered momentum in the later 1960s . |
| 20 | Just over a fortnight ago two of Tyson 's more controversial penalty decisions had help spark a free-for-all at the end of the League match between Arsenal and Norwich City which led to both clubs being charged with bringing the game into disrepute . |
| 21 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 22 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 23 | Whatever Isabella 's private intentions may have been , the deposition of the king had so far formed no part of her publicly declared programme , which amounted to little more than the removal of the Despensers . |
| 24 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that Moscow had severed relations with the dictator Batista in 1952 , the USSR had made somewhat erratic purchases of Cuban sugar throughout the 1950s , which amounted to half a million tons in the peak year , 1955 . |
| 26 | This may be compared to the total inflow of Japanese portfolio investment in the UK over 1986 Q1–1989 Q2 which amounted to some £23.2bn and total foreign inward investment of close to £50bn . |
| 27 | A budget for the 1992-93 biennium , providing for expenditure of US$646,000,000 ( representing a cut in real terms of 4.6 per cent ) , was approved without major controversy [ see p. 37054 for 1989 budget disputes ] , and the USA undertook to pay before January 1992 its arrears for 1991 , which amounted to some $34,000,000 out of a total contribution of around $75,000,000 . |
| 28 | In contrast , bidders competed for uncleaned and fresher works such as Lord Leighton 's ‘ The Antique Juggling Girl ’ at Sotheby 's bought by a telephone bidder at £400,000 ( $600,000 ) ( estimate £400–600,000 ) , and Valentine Cameron Prinsep 's evocative ‘ Home from Gleaning , ’ also at Sotheby 's which sold to another telephone bidder for £50,000 ( $75,000 ; also healthily estimated at £50–70,000 ) . |
| 29 | Mr Nicol said that in each of the three cases the restriction of access to the public conflicted with the principle of openness which applied to all legal proceedings . |
| 30 | Elite theorists tried to formulate universal laws which applied to all political systems , such as Michels ' iron law of oligarchy — an empirical universal law based upon constant features of human psychology and the logic of organization . |