Example sentences of "led to [art] " in BNC.

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1 Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd .
2 As several well characterized DNA-damaging treatments led to no induction ( Table 1 ) , we conclude that damage to DNA following treatment with oxidants is not the trigger for the induction of this gene .
3 He had plenty of time to prepare this great phrase , for the outrage was said to have happened in 1731 and he was not asked about it until 1738 , but the delay led to no awkward questions ; by the late 1730s Parliament was growing increasingly annoyed with Spanish interference with British trade , and it was not willing to let Walpole go on with his peaceful policy .
4 It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades .
5 But it led to no official population policy , nor to real changes in government policy towards family support ( see Chapter 13 ) .
6 The scheme probably led to no more than £20 million being invested , and so a more attractive plan was formulated .
7 There is no doubt , then , that the modified theory led to no new testable consequences and would be quite unacceptable to a falsificationist .
8 It led to no new tests .
9 As this provision catered for only a small proportion of part-time further education teachers and , with very few exceptions , led to no formal qualification , it in no way constituted an adequate or unified system of training .
10 Here the total absence of signals led to every kind of confusion , but its point was a testing of the function of such signals : did the normal ‘ framing ’ of such situations , which at the restaurant table might follow word by word and action by action the scene of a play , inhibit or qualify the responses of ‘ others ’ / ‘ an audience ’ ?
11 A dispute with the local rector and manager led to a group of parents withdrawing their support from the school and coming together to form the Dalkey School Project .
12 The increasing stylistic simplification of the 1930s led to a ‘ moderne ’ style being adopted for pubs , although this was not always wholly at the expense of Tudor or Georgian .
13 It led to a major fracas , in which some tried to get him ‘ unelected ’ , but failed .
14 This led to a courtly style of social dance which Petipa studied and taught fur some six years in Madrid before returning to St. Petersburg as balletmaster .
15 The additional exercises certainly led to a greater use of patterns made by the dancers rolling or posturing over and on the floor .
16 The decree prompted the cartels to declare ‘ total war ’ on the Colombian government and led to a wave of bombings throughout the country .
17 A leak of an early draft of the White Paper on community care led to a clash yesterday between Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , and Harriet Harman , Labour 's health spokesman .
18 It led to a cabinet decision on Tuesday to arrest Mr Mutambara and Mr Chikweche under Zimbabwe 's 24-year-old emergency powers regulations , which were inherited from Ian Smith 's Rhodesia .
19 Lonsdale finds that , as the century progressed , increasing refinement of taste led to a loss of the informality , humour and immediacy that he prizes most ; and it was precisely the strained and highflown verse that was eclipsed by the success of Lyrical Ballads .
20 When the chairman of the inquiry into the King 's Cross Underground fire made his report he was strongly critical of London Underground 's management ( the two top men quit hours before the report was published ) : ‘ An inward looking approach fostered by the organisation 's narrow horizons undoubtedly led to a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency which included a general unwillingness to take advice or accept criticism from outside bodies . ’
21 Their day of inquiries led to a charge being laid against a resident of the island .
22 Craig Luxton , a New Zealand-born scrum-half on the England periphery , rubbed salt into the self-inflicted wounds with a series of tap-penalties and darting thrusts , one of which led to a 90-metre break-out and a second try for Gavin Thompson — one of the game 's few high points .
23 An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 .
24 The furore led to a revision of the BBC 's sponsorship guidelines , though the formal position is quite clear .
25 It was in Silesia that a marvellous Tottenham Hotspur team , League champions and FA Cup winners in 1961 , were first introduced to the hazards of European competition , their ambitions in disarray until Dave Mackay inspired a partial recovery that led to a 8-1 success in the return at White Hart Lane .
26 In Oxfordshire , smoke from burning staw obscured roads and led to a pile-up .
27 Veterinary examination revealed the true identity of the horse and led to a spell in Maidstone jail for Willett .
28 It has been argued that the Famine led to a long-term levelling process amongst the afflicted peasantry , thus keeping the ‘ kulak ’ at bay in the stricken areas .
29 In the summer of 1986 , the legacy of Westland and local-government losses led to a relatively low point for the government .
30 The Reykjavik summit , when President Reagan met Mr Gorbachev for the second time , led to a notable strain between Washington and London .
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