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 | Political uncertainty and economic hardships led to a continued outflow of refugees , particularly from the minorities . |
| 8 | It certainly led to a timid press conference . |
| 9 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | According to Koenig , this led to a month-long orgy involving virgins and she-asses garlanded for the occasion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The period of glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev led to a great burgeoning of group activity throughout the republics . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Naturally enough , the introduction of machinery led to a new plan in some contemporary barns . |
| 22 | Apart from the agitation over conditions and pay in the mid-1960s which led to a new contract and the " renaissance of general practice " the profession was virtually untouched by governments of either party , although the escalating demands on the hospital service which successive governments tried to grapple with were largely GP-induced . |
| 23 | During the 1920s the discovery of hormones led to a new variant in the theory of sexual difference based on emotional instability . |
| 24 | Hence subject to the constraint that where Ro is some pre-assigned value of R. The integration can be extended over the whole 3N-dimensional configuration space by setting whenever the inequality ( 6.10 ) is satisfied and otherwise , and writing Mark off showed that , far from being only a device to select the correct region of configuration space led to a new interpretation of the probability density function |
| 25 | The oil shocks of the 1970s , and the widespread sympathy for Israel in the United States , led to a new sense of vulnerability . |
| 26 | The quota system and its responsibilities stimulated a variety of fund-raising social activities and some branches became unprecedentedly active as community foci which , in turn , led to a new sense of social unity through corporate activities and interests . |
| 27 | This switch to feature films inevitably led to a new preoccupation with fiction and with developing screen fictions that took up the themes and conventions of respectable literary and theatrical tastes . |
| 28 | The Pier Head incident proved to be the turning point which led to a new period of industrial peace within the giant Vehicle Division , unfortunately too late to avoid the massive investment switch to the Continent which was already under way with the newly approved corporate plan . |
| 29 | Anger over their failure to benefit from increased television revenue combined with the falling value of the maximum wage of £20 in relation to average industrial earnings led to a new surge of militancy in the 1950s . |
| 30 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |