Example sentences of "which [adv] led [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
2 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
3 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
4 | Thus began the process which eventually led to the peasants ceasing to sow grain and ultimately to the New Economic Policy . |
5 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
6 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
7 | First , although it was a serious issue which eventually led to the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , such violence was only a pale reflection of the conflict which led to the growth of fascism in Italy and Germany in the inter-war period . |
8 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
9 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
10 | It was in this capacity that Le Duc Tho conducted secret negotiations in the early 1970s with Henry Kissinger , US President Nixon 's National Security Adviser , which eventually led to the signing of the 1973 Paris agreements . |
11 | The failure of this ‘ mechanical speech ’ approach ( which eventually led to the development of speech synthesis by rule ) has many lessons to teach us about pronunciation teaching and learning , and it will be useful , in looking at connected speech , to bear in mind the difference between the way humans speak and what would be found in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |
12 | Webster 's resignation came only a month after a fire in the US embassy in Moscow , which apparently led to the loss of computer disks and other sensitive material when Soviet firefighters , possibly including State Security ( KGB ) agents , were allowed to move unescorted through parts of the building . |
13 | Associated with the growth of the proletariat in the towns of feudal times were other processes which together led to the concentration of the means of production in ever-fewer hands , a process which ultimately led to the capitalism of the nineteenth century . |
14 | ‘ If physicists had tried to discover a way to release nuclear energy before 1939 , they would have worked on anything else rather than the field which finally led to the discovery of fission , namely radiochemistry . |
15 | The Left-wing bias of the Cabinet had enabled Mr Major to ‘ railroad through ’ his proposals on Maastricht which nearly led to the Government 's defeat . |
16 | Also , expense was spared by the adoption of a simple square-headed shape in contrast to the original arched profile , and it was the cost consideration which similarly led to the new window sills , mullions and lintels being manufactured in reconstructed stone to match the existing dressings , rather than the natural material . |
17 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
18 | One of these which originally led to the nonprofessional but nationally-recognized Certificate of Social Service ( CCETSW , 1975 ) , has now been incorporated into a new and alternative route to a full professional social work qualification for some of the kinds of social service personnel we have referred to as paraprofessionals ( CCETSW , 1989 ) . |
19 | Readers should pay particular attention to the careful , extensive community outreach organisation , which undoubtedly led to the minimal emotional impact of the programme . |
20 | Hardly less damaging for the Church was clerical incontinency , which sometimes led to the son succeeding the father in a benefice or parish , as reported in the diocese of Worcester at this time , " so dishonouring ecclesiastical dignity and the canon law " . |
21 | Associated with the growth of the proletariat in the towns of feudal times were other processes which together led to the concentration of the means of production in ever-fewer hands , a process which ultimately led to the capitalism of the nineteenth century . |
22 | Thus , the reforms started a course which was the precise opposite of the emperor 's intention — moves to resist centralization , indeed , to secure greater decentralization , a process which ultimately led to the division of the empire in a Dual Monarchy , and ultimately its disintegration in the first World War . |
23 | It was here that , at the Competition for the Crown forty-two years before , Edward the First of England had met the Scots magnates and set in motion the actions which ultimately led to the Wars of Independence . |
24 | The renewed impetus which ultimately led to the SEA derived considerable support from the first directly elected European Parliament ( EP ) . |
25 | Spares were short , which drove Iran out into the underground arms market to make good the shortages , a process which ultimately led to the Irangate scandal in the US . |