Example sentences of "led [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other studies in Oxford on the hypothalamus led to the discovery of compounds now successfully used in the treatment of sterility and cancers of the prostate . |
| 2 | The students and others were highly critical of the Dip.AD for a number of reasons , not all of them compatible : that it did not impart a sound technical training and failed to produce good design practitioners ; that it was becoming so academic in content that it was losing touch with the market-place ; that its status was popularly regarded as inferior to that of courses in other subjects which led to the award of degrees ; and that instead of a network of inter-related courses imparting a wide range of studies , it offered only a small number of ladder-like disciplines . |
| 3 | The fact that both Bush and his wife had contracted the disease ( a coincidence estimated at around one in 3,000,000 ) , together with the discovery in 1990 of lumpus ( another auto-immune disease ) in Bush 's dog , Millie , led to the initiation of tests on the drinking water in all houses used by the Bush family to see if there could be an environmental cause of their ailments . |
| 4 | The Blackburn manager set up two swap deals which led to the departure of strikers Roy Wegerle and Steve Livingstone , and the arrival of Kevin Gallacher from Coventry and Graeme Le Saux from Chelsea . |
| 5 | Bolton 66 was the first ‘ foreign ’ tram to operate in Blackpool in June 1982 and its success led to the arrival of cars from other systems . |
| 6 | The council say that video evidence which led to the arrest of suspects in the James Bulger case has proved the value of systems like this . |
| 7 | Previously , picketing had taken the form of pushing and shoving on both sides , but the confiscation of union banners and the pickets ' public address system by the police led to the throwing of stones and bottles by strikers . |
| 8 | Spectacular rises in corn prices encouraged landlords to evict in order to farm themselves , a process which led to the creation of despoblados ; middling tenants refused to sublet and a wave of rent rises seems to have started in the 1760's . |
| 9 | The stability of the region led to the creation of schools of artists and craftsmen which spread to other suitable places , southern England and Flanders , for example . |
| 10 | The studies led to the revelation of reasons why the programme was less successful than it might have been . |
| 11 | Comparison with teaching in a traditional classroom course of the same length of time led to the use of CAI for all the SCORPIO training . |
| 12 | The resulting fracas led to the suspension of proceedings for two hours on Wednesday and further rancorous debate yesterday . |
| 13 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They showed how the organization of the schools played a part in the failure of certain pupils , and how the institution of streaming was actually helping to produce the very attitudes which led to the failure of children placed in the lower streams ( Burgess 1988 ) . |
| 16 | The growth of bureaucracy led to the proliferation of officials with functions as police , tax collectors and customs officers who might have had their offices in such places . |
| 17 | Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’ |
| 18 | New initiatives in the life sciences led to the establishment of disciplines such as genetics and ecology . |
| 19 | The dominance of the collective ( the state ) over the individual led to the repression of individuals and a denial of the very basic human rights which the Western Enlightenment had bestowed upon democracy . |