Example sentences of "had led [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the extent to which devolution had led to a change in personal level of job satisfaction ; |
| 2 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |
| 3 | A YOUNG man 's distinctive T-shirt had led to a case of mistaken identity . |
| 4 | But the Labour leaders ' caution was understandable in the light of the amendments made to the party constitution after the break with Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 , the last leader to have favoured a coalition government , whose action had led to a split in the party and his expulsion from membership . |
| 5 | UP leaders Gabriel Jaime Santamaria and Benito Súarez Garcia had been murdered in November 1989 and February 1990 , and the murder of agricultural workers ' trade union leader Sebastian Mosquera had led to a strike of 26,000 banana workers in September 1989 . |
| 6 | The DKP had long been dependent on the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED — ultimately renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) and had suffered as a result of the changes in East Germany ; the ending of financial support from the SED had led to a scaling down of operations . |
| 7 | At the newer universities and polytechnics the process of institutional growth had led to a variety of adjustments both in the modes of teaching ( most notably through the introduction of the seminar ) and curriculum ( with a more modern and selective emphasis , and the use of the period study ) . |
| 8 | The therapist suggested that many of the problems that had arisen were due to poor communication between Pamela and her parents , and that this had led to a sense of mistrust on both sides . |
| 9 | Public concern about price liberalization had led to a wave of panic buying which had emptied shops in the last days of December . |
| 10 | It was also claimed that Mr Deans had been responsible for the non-payment of police bills which had led to a threat of police cover being withdrawn for home matches . |
| 11 | Plans to dismiss up to 90,000 public employees had not been carried out , and high interest rates ( up to 14 per cent in real terms in February 1989 ) had led to a consumer boom and raised the government 's internal debt by 25 per cent . |
| 12 | Yet it was undeniable that the Conservative political pressure to extend rural electrification had led to a diversion of scarce capital resources into investments which were known to be unremunerative and in fact turned out to be so . |
| 13 | This had led to a feeling that tribunals were too dependent on , and influenced by , the departments . |
| 14 | The West German financial community had claimed that the tax had led to a flight of capital out of the country , thus creating upward pressure on domestic interest rates . |
| 15 | Longer-term factors which had led to a decline in the gold price were lack of demand because of the prolonged recession in the USA and the slowdown in activity in other major industrialized countries , a switch by investors from the gold market to financial markets , and a failure to limit production and thus reduce supplies ( particularly in South Africa , the world 's largest producer ) . |
| 16 | Professor Dodge said the advent of full-scale female employment in Ulster during World War II had led to a decline in breast-feeding in the generations since . |
| 17 | Its allegations were the latest in a series of accusations of collaboration with the secret police which had surfaced since the revolution and had led to a number of resignations and arrests of politicians and officials [ see pp. 37382 ; 37464 ; 37542 ; 38018 ] . |
| 18 | The child gives limited eye contact and this had led to a breakdown in the relationship between him and his mother . |
| 19 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There is no general policy and this had led to a pattern of provision which is diverse , fragmentary and localised . ’ |
| 21 | The port 's operations are subsidized to some extent by the local authorities but in the main the port is financed by port dues and this had led to a demand that any port land released for development should yield significant port use in order to generate revenue . |
| 22 | Such a shift was viewed with real apprehension and had led to a movement by Prussia to rally to Austria 's support , in spite of their internal differences about the running of Germany . |