Example sentences of "led [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panton-Lewis and Forbes handed in 74s , with Stewart one stroke behind , as Japan 's Fusako Nagata led with a four-under-par round of 68 . |
| 2 | He always used the side door which led into a small office . |
| 3 | A door at the back led into a small room with a huge desk almost filling it . |
| 4 | It led into a tiny vestibule with doors on all three sides . |
| 5 | This led into a Victorian style kitchen with a tiled floor and copper skillets hanging in the middle of the room . |
| 6 | In Toronto an immense frontage 752 ft. long had a central colonnaded entrance-way which led into a great concourse with a slightly curving coffered ceiling . |
| 7 | The disappointment Haslam inevitably felt at being let down in this way led to a second turning point in his career and one of those ‘ negative accidents ’ that ultimately proved to have a positive outcome . |
| 8 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 9 | Political uncertainty and economic hardships led to a continued outflow of refugees , particularly from the minorities . |
| 10 | It certainly led to a timid press conference . |
| 11 | Contact with other nations ( Egypt in the case of Herodotus ) led to a greater awareness of the past , because of the evidence for long periods of time presented , for example , by the pyramids . |
| 12 | It was stressed that , for the Christian , TM led to a greater awareness and devotion of many aspects of scriptural faith . |
| 13 | The increased level of competition between banks and building societies led to a greater degree of diversification of products . |
| 14 | Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive . |
| 15 | The rise in American self-esteem that followed Reagan 's more aggressive foreign policies led to a greater acceptance of the ‘ revisionist ’ view of the war . |
| 16 | The additional exercises certainly led to a greater use of patterns made by the dancers rolling or posturing over and on the floor . |
| 17 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 18 | This led to a certain amount of friction between the Gardener ( Hortulanus ) and the Keeper of the Garden ( Praefectus Horti ) , Isaac Rand , who , in accordance with his office , published in the same year Index Plantarum officinalium quae in Horto Chelseiano . |
| 19 | This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued . |
| 20 | The presence of two Conservative candidates — the party 's official choice Gerald Malone and Mr. Browne — led to a certain amount of confusion when Mr. Bowley wanted to seek supplementary information on current government thinking . |
| 21 | In 1986 I discovered that low fat eating led to a leaner body . |
| 22 | According to Koenig , this led to a month-long orgy involving virgins and she-asses garlanded for the occasion . |
| 23 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 24 | Similar , though less extreme , French claims in Venice , where the ambassador demanded that any holder of a " patent de familiarité " signed by him must be considered a member of his household , led to a long breach between the two states in 1710 – 23 and renewed friction in the later 1720s . |
| 25 | The division of the provinces led to a great increase in extent of the boundaries between them and the imposition of duties on goods passing through them . |
| 26 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 27 | Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations . |
| 28 | The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics . |
| 29 | New apparatus made new experiments possible ; for example , the new diffraction gratings prepared by H. A. Rowland at Johns Hopkins University from 1882 led to a great improvement and quantification of spectroscopy , while the microscope led to the cell theory . |
| 30 | Far from being ad hoc , the move to save Newton 's theory from falsification by Uranus 's orbit led to a new kind of test of that theory , which it was able to pass in a dramatic and progressive way . |