Example sentences of "[noun] that led [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasoning that led to this development was clearly expressed in a remarkable passage in a late writing known as the Persian Rivayat : |
| 2 | Léonie wheeled , scrambled back past the baker 's , and fled along the boulevard edged with limes that led to the church and the walled cemetery , to the lane beyond . |
| 3 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
| 4 | It was probably this inability to recognize defeat that led to his continuing attacks on the Somme and to the prolonged bloodbath at Passchendaele . |
| 5 | In arguing the Slovak case for the altar Mr Richard Marsina , a historian charged with heading the Slovak commission for drawing up claims , points to Prago-centrism — one of the grievances that led to Slovakia following its path to independent statehood . |
| 6 | CYPRIOT club Apollon , Liverpool 's hosts in this week 's second leg Cup Winners Cup-tie , were involved in a riot on Saturday that led to a referee 's strike and postponement of yesterday 's Cyprus League games . |
| 7 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 8 | And it was that habit of speaking his mind that led to his downfall . |
| 9 | The incident provoked a demonstration that led to the arrest and beating of Vuk Draskovic , head of the Serbian Renewal Movement , the largest opposition democratic party . |
| 10 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 11 | It is this attempt by Fabians and New Liberals to conjoin ethical and evolutionary considerations that led to the most sustained criticism of their theories . |
| 12 | Behind him , two men in long overcoats stepped out from the shadow of a doorway and watched the young man turn to the left again , heading up the main backstreet that led to Joseph Hyde 's flat . |
| 13 | Of this , £1 million is a large chunk that will reduce the UK 's ability to contribute to the type of research that led to the discovery of the Z o . |
| 14 | The health connection was the motivation for the research that led to keen medical interest and the endorsement of the benefits of dietary fibre . |
| 15 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |
| 16 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 17 | It was Cantona 's exclusion by Leeds against Arsenal that led to his shock transfer last week . |
| 18 | He looked up , and there was Kate , hesitating in the doorway that led to the bar . |
| 19 | He continued to stand there , watching as she made her way across the conservatory , then through the high arched doorway that led into the sitting-room . |
| 20 | I if I remember correctly those are words that led to the death of a very distinguished explorer . |
| 21 | Humans were clearly not the primeval enemy that led to the evolution of this unique backbone , so which deadly crusher was involved ? |
| 22 | This person might easily be the perpetrator of the crime that led to that appalling interment . |
| 23 | We could be back to the boom that led to the crash that lost the job that paid for the house that Jack bought . |
| 24 | When he passed the entry that led to the bathrooms and toilets , he became more circumspect . |
| 25 | The table 's steel surface was ridged with a network of channels that led to a drain-hole in one corner . |
| 26 | His lordship was standing at the archway that led into the ballroom . |
| 27 | These images paled before the man who came through the archway that led to the deeper mysteries of the church . |
| 28 | He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |