Example sentences of "[Wh det] lead the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advocates of a more rapid rundown were hampered by the domination of the debate by manpower figures , which led the issue away from the balance of payments . |
| 2 | Last week , the Government declared the apple spray , Alar , safe but failed to study the evidence which led the US authorities to ban it . |
| 3 | It was the fear of Labour which led the Conservatives to abandon the Lloyd George Coalition government in 1922 and to anticipate the new social policies of a ‘ new Conservatism ’ during the 1920s . |
| 4 | I fully understood the principles which led the party to believe it could gain more of the ethnic minority vote if it could prove that a barrister of Afro-Caribbean extraction could become a Conservative MP . |
| 5 | For 12 years from 1962 he successfully fed Edgar Hoover at the FBI a mixture of tantalising bits of fact and rubbish , including false information about Russia 's space-rocket programme which led the Americans to think they were ahead of the Russians . |
| 6 | In 1984 the NUT reported ‘ considerations of natural justice which led the union to adopt a policy opposed to confidential reports and references on teachers apply equally to the current demand from many parents for a right of access to files kept on their children ’ . |
| 7 | Agincourt faces , Jo had called them ; the bony , resolute features of a dynasty which led the people of England for centuries . |
| 8 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |
| 9 | In energy , as opposed to environmental , terms the most serious potential consequence of acid rain could be on coal as a power station fuel , a fact which led the IEA in a study published in November 1983 to recommend governments to increase basic research on acid rain pollution . |
| 10 | The result was a threatened players ' strike in 1909 , which led the authorities to re-recognize the union . |
| 11 | He attributed the actual cohesive organising role to the vanguard of the working class ( read Communist Party ) which led the various strata of that class with their differing levels of consciousness . |
| 12 | After all , the medicine which led the pollsters and the Opposition down also happens to be the medicine on which they rely so heavily themselves . |
| 13 | Anna Essinger , who was impatient with religious dogma , was decidedly unsympathetic , which led the camp 's religious adviser , the Reverend Dr Grunpeter , to appeal to the Chief Rabbi for ‘ more tolerance and understanding of orthodox boys ’ . |
| 14 | Listen to the Queen recalling the changes which took place in her long reign , the inventions which led the way for others today , and the discoveries that were made … |
| 15 | In some cases customers would demand more Champagne than woollens which led the sharpest businessmen to quickly diversify into this lucrative new commerce . |
| 16 | It was the Press which led the battle to cut the Civil List and persuade the Queen to pay tax . |
| 17 | The dispute which led the Conseil d'Etat Luxembourgeois to seek a legal opinion from the ECJ arose quite simply from the withdrawal of Mr Ramrath 's authorisation on the grounds that he no longer satisfied Luxembourg law ( ie the requirement that he have a professional establishment in Luxembourg and that he fulfil conditions of professional independence ) . |
| 18 | DENMARK 'S Socialist People 's Party , which led the successful ‘ no ’ campaign against the Maastricht treaty last June , decided yesterday to endorse the pact in a new referendum to be held on May 18 . |
| 19 | France is a country which led the therapeutic enterprise of building the asylums in the nineteeth century . |
| 20 | But Germany , which led the campaign to reduce spending on space to help pay for the soaring cost of reunification , sees the situation as an opportunity of reduce the cost of Columbus as well . |
| 21 | The Nationalists held majorities on some local bodies which led the Unionist majority in the province to disband several councils and to withdraw the system of voting by proportional representation that had been introduced in 1919 . |
| 22 | On this point a Mareva injunction can be distinguished from an Anton Piller order ; it was the fact that the latter is immediately and irreversibly executed as soon as it is served which led the court in Allertext Inc . |
| 23 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 24 | ( ii ) The plaintiffs contend that variation should be refused on the ground that the information which led the Bank of England to issue the section 39 notice became available to them as a result of a serious contempt of court committed by the defendants in breach of the injunction . |
| 25 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 26 | It was this which led the following day to Eighth Army 's request for authorization to negotiate with the Soviets for a hand-over , " on advice Macmillan " , and which led to Robertson 's order from AFHQ later that day for negotiations to begin . |
| 27 | It was not the general labourers but the seamen and other groups which could be made to believe in their immediate bargaining power which led the new militancy from the winter , not of 1889 , but of 1888 . |
| 28 | The Socialist parties suffered from the consequences of the Second International 's theory of revolution in stages ( which led the Argentine Socialist Party to support US interventions in the Caribbean ) and its under-estimation of the power of nationalism . |
| 29 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 30 | The Chief Constable had decided to dispense with his services because of a report made on the probationer constable which led the Chief Constable to believe that he was not fitted to be a member of the police force . |