Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] led " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tasmania aborigine hunters led a nomadic life to take advantage of the seasonal food supply in different regions . |
| 2 | Mosley 's adoption of a more authoritarian manner and the increasing importance he gave to developing the youth organization as a relatively disciplined defence force led to the departure of many of his more important political collaborators like John Strachey . |
| 3 | The DNF contained patriotic leftist Koreans led astray by communist propaganda ; it was important to persuade such people to support moderation and democracy . |
| 4 | Radical reshaping of the group 's operations away from retail outlets and into bakery operations led to write-offs last year , but this time there were no below-the-line expenses for store closures . |
| 5 | An argument at Formby 's works between a boy , John Carter , and a horse driver led to what the local paper called " A brutal attack upon the boy " . |
| 6 | The country 's failure to ban such fishing methods led to the US adopting an embargo on Mexican tuna in 1991 , followed by other European and Asian nations [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 7 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 8 | Side effects led to dose reduction in 11 subjects ( 28% ) . |
| 9 | Fingers are being kept firmly crossed at British Coal HQ as it waits to see if faulty roof bolts led to the recent accident at the Stillingfleet colliery , part of the new Selby complex , when the collapse of a roof trapped five miners underground for over a day . |
| 10 | A century ago it was considered to be as good as the Normande , and better as a butcher 's beast , but a combination of war and frontier changes led to its deterioration ; it was crossed with Danish Red as well as Belgian Red to form the Flemish Red , which is usually whole red , though some have mottled or blazed faces . |
| 11 | Initially the library was screened with a 1.9-kb fragment derived from the B3 cDNA referred to previously , thereafter a stepwise screening procedure led to the isolation of nine overlapping clones covering the complete DRP cDNA . |
| 12 | In secreting intestine UK-ORS led to chloride secretion ( p<0.001 ) whereas the other ORS still led to net chloride absorption albeit much lower than in normal intestine . |
| 13 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 14 | Where Roberts had commended Prince Albert 's provision of three bedrooms because the use of the living-room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding , the realists began to point out that the crowding occurred in any case , since even those who could afford to rent the extra rooms , could not afford to furnish them . |
| 15 | The Thai Deputy Prime Minister Pong Sarasin led a 30-member delegation to Myanma on Feb. 1-3 , 1990 , to discuss trade and economic issues . |
| 16 | Administration Manager led the team which organised the open weekend . |
| 17 | The team also found that long term potentiation led to the persistent elevation of cAMP in the cells , while short term potentiation was associated with only a transient elevation of cAMP . |
| 18 | He unexpectedly appended to this a ‘ Post Script containing remarks on the State of Modern Sicily ’ in which his sympathy with contemporary trends in secular rationalist thought led him to argue that Sicily was in need of drastic modernization along liberal and democratic lines . |
| 19 | A side door led straight into a street . |
| 20 | The London official 's slave-ish adherence to the letter of the rule book led him to supply the most ludicrous caution of the season . |
| 21 | Unresponsive export markets led many houses to turn their attention inwards and focus on long-neglected domestic sales . |
| 22 | Similar shenanigans in the North West Frontier Province led to the dissolution of the assembly on May 30th and the announcement of fresh elections . |
| 23 | Incubation with sodium [ 1- 1 4 C ] butyrate in the absence of mucosal biopsy specimens led to an increase in scintillation in the Eppendorf vial of 512 ( 35 ) ( mean ( SD ) , n=6 ) disintegrations per minute ( DPM ) above background , which may have been because of the volatility of the butyrate . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the postwar boom , an imbalance between accumulation and the labour supply led to increasingly severe labour shortage . |
| 25 | Free booze party led to sackings |
| 26 | The gravel track led downhill into a narrow belt of silver birch and rowan . |
| 27 | Harmer 's reputation in the University Museum led to his appointment as keeper of zoology at the British Museum ( Natural History ) in 1907 and in 1919 to the position of director . |
| 28 | Public procurement and especially defence procurement led to a double demand for semiconductors , which were used directly ( for example in military missiles ( and which were also in heavy demand from the computer industry ( for defence and other federal government use ) . |
| 29 | In the course of the creation of the data file by the survey organisation — a very complex process — a computer error led to the omission of a significant amount of information . |
| 30 | The debate over the most effective way to promote management education in general and to ensure effective provision in the public sector institutions led the Secretary of State in March 1971 to announce a plan for the creation of twelve Regional Management Centres ( RMCs ) . |