Example sentences of "and [adj] led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 2 | The division was about four men to one woman , and this led to the inevitable result , in those days before The Pill — a baby boom . |
| 3 | Yes again , and this led to the study of photosynthesis . |
| 4 | The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non-playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . |
| 5 | Charles I and his Parliament quarrelled , and this led to the Civil War of the 1640s which ended with the defeat and execution of the King and , in 1649 , the establishment of a republic . |
| 6 | The special needs of different categories of the physically handicapped were recognized first by individual philanthropists and this led to the establishment of numerous national and local voluntary organizations aiming to promote the welfare of the disabled . |
| 7 | In order to meet these requirements , it was realised that some form of detector-operated system would be essential , and this led to the development of the zoned system in which open sprinklers were used , mounted vertically one above the other on a drop pipe and fed from a ‘ zone control valve ’ which was opened directly by the response of the detector to the fire . |
| 8 | This is particularly the case for damage to the left hemisphere of the brain ; and this led to the concept of cerebral dominance : the idea that the left hemisphere dominated the right as far as their contributions to cognitive processing were concerned . |
| 9 | The factory rapidly expanded and this led to the almost total destruction of the remaining parts of the Bishop 's Palace . |
| 10 | Cash was flowing out quicker than it came in during 1930 and this led to the idea that a new racer could be built to earn the ‘ big money ’ at the National Air Races , where the winner had just taken $15,000 . |
| 11 | Hence there was a serious distortion in policy which between 1981 and 1985 led to the number of places in private and voluntary residential nursing homes rising by 138 per cent , from 39,000 to 93,000 despite a policy commitment to community care . |
| 12 | The siege of Cadiz by the French between 1810 and 1812 led to the closure of the Cadiz house ; but when the siege was abandoned trade and profits rapidly regained their former levels . |
| 13 | Widespread use of pesticides DDT , dieldrin and aldrin in the 1950s and 1960s led to the poisoning of many birds of prey and affected their reproduction . |