Example sentences of "this [noun] led [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of this measure led to the deregulation of local bus services in 1986 , involving the break up of the National Bus Company and the introduction of private sector competition . |
| 2 | This artificiality led to the zoom shot 's falling out of favour for all but occasional use ( how it helped Superman to fly will be discussed later on ) . |
| 3 | For the empirical evidence discussed in the first section of this chapter led to the conclusion that habituation and latent inhibition are subserved by different mechanisms ; it follows that a theory based on the assumption of a common mechanism must be wrong in one way or another ; the fact that Wagner 's theory is inadequate as an account of habituation provides no reason to reject its explanation for latent inhibition . |
| 4 | This thinking led to the theory and strategy of ‘ export-led industrialization ’ ( ELI ) . |
| 5 | This susceptibility led to the closure of the main road at its base . |
| 6 | Interestingly enough , as many writers have pointed out , this process led to the positing of numerous agencies with high-sounding names purporting to do exactly what the older and rejected vocabulary of pre-behaviourist mentalism had attempted to do . |
| 7 | The first set of changes in this period led to the Sexual Offences Amendment Act in 1976 ; the second led to Home Office guidelines on revised police procedures in 1983 ( and later 1986 ) . |
| 8 | This shift led to the return in 1892 of Keir Hardie as the first independent labour MP , and in 1898 of the first labour council in British electoral history . |
| 9 | The enthusiasm generated by this investigation led to the formation of the Association for Promoting the Extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts to the Civilian Population . |
| 10 | A leak of plutonium at the plant earlier this month led to the incident being raised in the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Several years later this example led to the establishment of an Association for Befriending Boys , followed in 1906 by the Lads ' Employment Committee , though neither was exclusively concerned with formal apprenticeships . |
| 12 | Many Conservatives were dismayed by the ‘ U-turn ’ in the policies of the Heath Government and this feeling led to the election of Mrs Thatcher as party leader in 1975 . |
| 13 | This combination led to the older name for the phenomena we are considering : thermohaline convection . |
| 14 | This background led to the present study . |
| 15 | This assumption led to the designation and methodology of ‘ mass communication ’ research , which still dominates the orthodox sociology of culture . |
| 16 | This clue led to the realisation that , in its lowest energy form , the intermediate has two bonding electrons in different energy levels . |
| 17 | Dissatisfaction with this position led to the establishment of a Royal Commission in 1923 and after it reported in 1925 it was made more difficult to achieve county borough status . |
| 18 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 19 | This interest led to the creation of MINIS . |
| 20 | One of the precautions was that everybody however remotely connected with the pie had to have their excreta tested , and this fact led to the pinstriped officials from Westminster who turned up on the night before pie day being turned away . |