Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 2 | Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle . |
| 3 | The coach departed from Clun at 8 a.m. for the four-hour journey to Minehead , the terminus of the West Somerset and indeed of the original branch line whose closure in 1971 led to the formation of the preserved railway which is so successful today . |
| 4 | Eileen Sessions , former head teacher at Smestow School , Stafford , whose introduction of Golf Foundation lessons to her school curriculum 1971 led to the establishment of a Staffordshire County Schools ' Association which now incorporates 60 schools , is the first winner of the Sir Henry Cotton Award for Meritorious Service to Junior Golf . |
| 5 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 6 | The discovery of X-rays by Roentgen in 1895 led to the development of imaging systems that displayed internal pictures of bone structure and harder tissues in the human body . |
| 7 | Hence there was a serious distortion in policy which between 1981 and 1985 led to the number of places in private and voluntary residential nursing homes rising by 138 per cent , from 39,000 to 93,000 despite a policy commitment to community care . |
| 8 | Returning to the Red Cross building , the house opposite ( 20/184 ) by F. M. Kaňka of 1720 belonged to the Hartig family . |
| 9 | Belvedere Mill in 1439 belonged to the Manor of Bisley and was being worked by Alexander Robull . |
| 10 | If the accounts of British politics between 1832 and 1867 pointed to the sovereignty of Parliament , then the accounts that came to the fore after that period made the additional point that the sovereignty of the people was behind this and was now of the constitutional and political essence . |
| 11 | or It may be a binary number with bit-7 set ( 128 added to the number ) . |
| 12 | Just over one hundred children between the ages of four to eleven came to the canteen which had been transformed with decorations . |
| 13 | The defeat of the Welsh rising of 1294 led to the inception in 1295 of James 's last great commission , Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey , Britain 's most perfect example of the concentric castle plan . |
| 14 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |
| 15 | Two scrutinies , in particular , were crucially important : the first in 1979 led to the decision to implement a management information system for ministers ( MINIS ) in the Department of the Environment ( DOE ) . |
| 16 | Kuwait was invaded and annexed by Iraq in August , a move which in January 1991 led to the outbreak of war and in late February to the defeat and expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait . |
| 17 | The failure of the WTUA in 1894 led to the formation of the Women 's Industrial Council . |
| 18 | The warrior pharaoh Tuthmosis III referred to the hour indicated by the sun 's shadow at a critical juncture of one of his campaigns in Asia , and it would therefore seem that he carried with him a portable sun-clock . |
| 19 | Between July and October this year in Leeds , two children aged under 10 came to the attention of the police for vehicle theft offences . |
| 20 | The company holds the distinction of having catered for every Coronation Banquet since George III came to the throne in 1760 . |
| 21 | By the time Robert III came to the throne in 1390 , Dundonald Castle was probably about 250 years old and below the standard required for a royal residence ; in any case , it was too far removed from the principal seats of government and power , such as Edinburgh and Stirling , to be a permanent royal household . |
| 22 | After a quarter century of peace , broken by underfinanced wars against the Netherlands , England had undertaken a quarter-century of wars against France that ran almost without interruption from the day William III came to the throne until the death of Queen Anne . |
| 23 | When Ivan III came to the throne the Kremlin hill was still covered with wooden buildings . |
| 24 | Iran on Oct. 7 protested to the government of Pakistan after a crowd attacked the Iranian consulate in Peshawar . |
| 25 | It appears that this request was contained in a letter from Mr. Qalib dated 15 December 1991 addressed to the Secretary General to the United Nations and the President of the Security Council . |
| 26 | We estimated that on an average working day about 650,000 people saw their family doctor and another 300,000 went to the dentist . |
| 27 | So on 13 December 1230 Henry III wrote to the warden of Bere Forest : |
| 28 | The upsurge in public concern over environmental quality issues during the latter half of 1969 led to the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act , which was passed with limited debate or opposition despite it being so fundamental and innovative a measure . |
| 29 | The siege of Cadiz by the French between 1810 and 1812 led to the closure of the Cadiz house ; but when the siege was abandoned trade and profits rapidly regained their former levels . |
| 30 | Developments in the semi-conductor industry in the early seventies led to the production of microprocessor chips which were fast , reliable and cheap enough to be mass produced . |