Example sentences of "that led to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My last charter had begun ; I had one week to work , then it would be back to Masquerade , and then to the long winds of the southern ocean that led to the uttermost ends of the earth , and thus to happiness . |
| 2 | This comment reveals where many of the misconceptions that led to the official radicalization of land policy towards which ended up in the land October nineteen forty seven . |
| 3 | The doors to the great white stone building that led to the palatial rotunda were open , the lobby empty except for a single security guard sitting and reading behind the circular information desk . |
| 4 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 5 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
| 6 | ‘ This way , ’ he was instructing , leading her on brisk strides up the double stone staircase that led to the front door . |
| 7 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was the attempt by American political science to construct a framework for the comparative analysis of modern , transitional and traditional societies under the guidance of structural-functionalism , that led to the logical inevitability of the bureaucracy , particularly in developing states , being regarded as ‘ multifunctional ’ . |
| 9 | It is said that 60 per cent of the human genome codes for proteins that are only expressed in the nervous system , so the real reason that human brains are different may be because greater genetic control has allowed them to evolve more rapidly ; if that is the case , taking to the trees may have freed the smell-brain , but it was its susceptibility to rapid evolution that led to the neopallial explosion . |
| 10 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 11 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 12 | Father showed Duncan the path that led to the grassy slopes of the hills . |
| 13 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 14 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |
| 15 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 16 | After wandering about for a while she finally got her bearings and found the splendid staircase that led to the grand hall and the main entrance . |
| 17 | The door to the short flight of stairs that led to the two topmost floors was locked . |
| 18 | ‘ By 1976 , the Government decided it had to act and that led to the first TV campaign with the line ‘ Do n't take your car for a drink ’ . ’ |
| 19 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 21 | Prior to describing his method , and that perfected by his brother John , it is necessary to examine in detail the state of the art that led to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century experiments , culminating in the most celebrated of the Hunterian ‘ mummies ’ , Mrs Maria Van Butchell . |
| 22 | The error of 1987 that led to the 1990s depression |
| 23 | Chris Novoselic ambled up to say ‘ hi ’ and bemoan a chronic hangover — the inevitable punishment for a late-night sesh with support band Teenage Fanclub — and Dave Grohl soon emerged from down the rampway that led to the sun-baked arena , all smiles as ever . |
| 24 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |
| 25 | It was the repercussions of this relatively minor event in the Balkans that led to the Great War as it was called , the First World War . |
| 26 | Wandered along the path that led to the little clearing . |
| 27 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
| 28 | With a choice of either a direct line up the centre of the face or a buttress to the right that led to the unclimbed south ridge of the mountain , the team opted for the buttress approach , avoiding serious stonefall on the direct line . |
| 29 | After a moment , she spun on her heel and stalked across the platform to the door that led to the large communal dressing-room . |
| 30 | Ellen Solomon and Walter Bodmer first pointed out that the variation in human gene sequences represented a powerful new mapping tool , which laid the basis for studies that led to the human genome project ( in which the entire genome will be mapped , characterised functionally , and eventually sequenced ) . |