Example sentences of "led [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social and cultural conditions under which Marryat and his successors have written , even up to the present , have led them to explore individual personality mainly in terms of officers and warrant officers rather than members of the lower deck . |
| 2 | However , the hostility of the courts towards " unreasonable or onerous clauses " has led them to ignore this principle , where such a clause is printed on the reverse of a document , or incorporated by reference . |
| 3 | From the point of view of problem solving , I find the cube has led me to formulate many problem-solving techniques in more generality than previously and to develop a general scheme for all problems of this sort . |
| 4 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 5 | In the 5th edition we find the following footnote to 270 : ‘ In order to maintain a fixed and measured standard for developing the power of liquid medicines , multiplied experience and careful observation have led me to adopt two succussions for each phial , in preference to the greater number formerly employed ( by which the medicines were too highly potentized ) . |
| 6 | Think of some of the actions which have led you to form instant opinions about others , either favourable or unfavourable , and you will realize bow quickly and easily it happens . |
| 7 | Long-standing commercial interests in the Pacific and the Far East had led her to acquire naval bases in Hawaii and the Philippine Islands ( annexed in 1898 ) along with a stake in the China trade . |
| 8 | This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease . |
| 9 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 10 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |
| 11 | All the evidence has led us to organize this book with reference to different kinds of places . |
| 12 | Our experience with over 30 families in the North West of England has led us to doubt these assessments for expression of both polyps and carcinoma . |