Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that led " in BNC.

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1 It was assumed that the food reinforcement in some way strengthened the response tendencies that led to the food , at the expense of other response tendencies .
2 The new legislation encouraged them into a buying spree that led to their picking up such distribution companies as Ideal and C. M. Woolf 's W&F Film Services , and sufficient cinema circuits to build a chain of 316 theatres .
3 The England manager watched film of the Arsenal striker 's clash with Tottenham 's David Howells that led to a Football Association charge of misconduct and said : ‘ If he is forced to miss some games because of this then it will give him a problem in terms of our next match .
4 Tom , Faye and Bill were still talking there , and as she crossed the entrance foyer that led out to the veranda on this side , she heard her own name .
5 Pop stars and society hostesses in S and M games that led to death .
6 The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose .
7 All around the walls of the circular seraglio , potted palms and other plants tangled together in profusion , almost concealing the carved archways and marble columns that led the eye upwards to the intricately decorated ceiling .
8 The Orc Warlord that led them was Azhag the Slaughterer , and under his command were tribes of Orcs and Goblins from the highlands around Red Eye Mountain .
9 While there I was part of a management team that led a successful buyout of the Bricom Group from B & c .
10 It was the indictments of the Audit Commission that led the Secretary of State for Social Services to ask Sir Roy Griffiths ‘ to review the way in which public funds are used to support community care policy and to advise … on the options for action that would improve the use of these funds as a contribution to more effective community care ’ .
11 ‘ The housing market remains depressed and confidence has taken a severe blow from the turmoil in the foreign exchange markets that led to sterling 's suspension from the ERM . ’
12 Second , evacuation has been identified by many writers as an enormously important causal factor in the construction of that wartime reformist consensus that led to the Welfare State legislation of the late 1940s .
13 It was this criticism of the adaptive expectations hypothesis that led to the development of the rational expectations hypothesis .
14 If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist .
15 It could quite easily have been the job connection that led to her life-long friendship with comedian , Jimmy Tarbuck .
16 The hallway was of a fair size , high-ceilinged and with an oak stairway that led up to a gallery-style balcony .
17 The French boy nudged Joseph as a tall , white-haired Moi who was obviously the village chieftain slowly descended the stepped tree trunk that led from his hut to the ground .
18 He advised the ministry of munitions on matters concerning chemical warfare , and it was chiefly these wartime contributions that led to his baronetcy in 1922 .
19 Only a week after becoming chairman of BP in 1990 , Robert Horton announced sweeping organisation changes that led to over 1,000 job losses .
20 The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing .
21 ‘ That would explain it , ’ Angelica said , pushing open the service door that led through into the kitchen .
22 Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript .
23 Jedi grew out of an earlier development effort that led to Apple Events , Apple 's application-messaging infrastructure , and AppleScript .
24 Casually , keeping a light touch on Haminh 's mind , she wandered over to the metal ramp that led up to the residential walkway , encouraging Haminh with light touches to turn into the gangpath instead of walking straight past to her own doorway .
25 They took a winding dirt alley that led through the back of the village between houses and outhouses .
26 Similarly , there is no way of knowing whether it was Cumbernauld 's highly segregated traffic arrangements that led to casualty rates some 30 per cent below the national average for built-up areas .
27 She sighed , then twisted on her stool to gaze in astonishment because a car was thumping and crashing its way along the dirt road that led from the island 's one village to Bonefish 's sprawl of shacks .
28 Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary .
29 They rounded the bend to see a landing-stage of rough piling and a mud track that led to the main highway and the bridge .
30 He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden .
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