Example sentences of "[that] lead the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again it was the auto industry that led the way in the early Fifties after suffering two costly setbacks . |
| 2 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 3 | The persistence and weight of this criticism was no doubt one of the pressures that led the Auditing Practices Board to place ‘ going concern ’ high on its list of priorities , and in May 1992 an exposure draft proposing new auditing standards in this area was issued . |
| 4 | It was these implications of the greater clarity introduced by the Geneva Protocols on the prohibition of indiscriminate weapons that led the British government , in addition to its general reservation excluding their applicability to nuclear weapons , to formulate further specific reservations in respect of what may constitute a military objective . |
| 5 | He continued to the outskirts of town and through the gates that led the half-mile to Destayala . |
| 6 | It was inheritance that led the researchers to D2 . |
| 7 | There is perhaps something to be said for the continued use of the term student from the motives that led the Greeks to call the Furies the Eumenides , " the kindly ones ' , in the hope that the use of a flattering name might induce them to live up to it . |
| 8 | It was such qualities , combined with its outstanding durability and scarcity , that led the Chinese to invest it with the symbolic qualities and applications that served to mark it out all the more emphatically as for them precious beyond all other substances . |
| 9 | Discontent over the operation of the new service was one of the factors that led the Labour government to set up a Royal Commission on the National Health Service in 1976 . |
| 10 | It was the indictments of the Audit Commission that led the Secretary of State for Social Services to ask Sir Roy Griffiths ‘ to review the way in which public funds are used to support community care policy and to advise … on the options for action that would improve the use of these funds as a contribution to more effective community care ’ . |
| 11 | Similarly , the release of sex hormones in the spring , which stimulates reproduction ( p. 46 ) , also stimulates northward migration , an association that led the biologist J. B. S. Haldane to remark that although ‘ we must be very careful in attributing human motives to animals , the emotion behind migration to breeding places is almost certainly more like human love than hunger or curiosity . ’ |
| 12 | All around the walls of the circular seraglio , potted palms and other plants tangled together in profusion , almost concealing the carved archways and marble columns that led the eye upwards to the intricately decorated ceiling . |
| 13 | Edgar noted how the Royal Shakespeare Company 's programmes ' were a treasure house of enticing quotations that led the keen reader on to find and study the books themselves ' . |
| 14 | Will the Secretary of State specify the exact circumstances that led the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for Scotland to give the clear impression during the Kincardine and Deeside by-election that a review of that decision was possible ? |
| 15 | In a meeting with Menem in New York on Oct. 1 the US President George Bush had welcomed the Argentine decision to send troops to assist in the blockade of Iraq in the Gulf [ see p. 37694 ] , stating that Argentina had " rejoined the international community after many years of frustration and isolation that led the country to a critical situation " . |
| 16 | There was a moment 's consultation between Webb-Bowen and his minder , that led the chairman to announce that an amendment had been tabled which , he said , would be moved after the proposer and seconder had spoken , by Ms Amaranth Wilikins . |
| 17 | the light that led The Holy Elders with the gift of myrrh . |
| 18 | The Clerides camp said a Vassiliou victory would open the way for a communist takeover , while supporters of Mr Vassiliou accused Mr Clerides of ties to the extreme right that led the 1974 coup seeking union with Greece . |
| 19 | Computer Peripherals : Smuggling in the computer as a CD player George Black takes a looks at multimedia , which may be the ace that leads the industry out of slump |
| 20 | This matriarchal system operates in the African elephant where it is the dominant cow that leads the herd . |
| 21 | I use the excellent Marshall bass combo , rated at 30 watts , every Sunday when I play in the music group that leads the worship in Staines Congregational Church . |
| 22 | But the stimulus that leads the termites to orientate their building in this way has nothing to do with magnetism and everything to do with heat . |
| 23 | It is this disorder of the human spirit that leads the sufferer to seek mood-altering substances or behaviours . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ It is clear the North-East is well set to lead the country out of recession and the UK , I believe , will be one of the countries that leads the world out of the recession . ’ |
| 25 | Win the new Renault Clio We unveil a fantastic new six-part competition to win one of this year 's most exciting models , and give you the first plant posers that lead the way to £9,180-worth of gleaming new car ! |
| 26 | A report by the electronics committee of the government 's National Economic Development Council says that the type of companies that lead the military electronics market are precisely the companies that are unable or unwilling to develop products for civilian customers . |
| 27 | It was the danger of these semi-beggar squatters to public order in every urban economy that lead the statesmen of the eighteenth century to favour effective price control , to attempt a state reform of the ‘ abusive ’ charitable foundations of the Church , and to preach the chilly gospel of workhouse labour . |