Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that led " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not just economic weakness that led to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe . |
| 2 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 3 | He slowed the car , turning it off the main road down a narrow lane that led to the river before bringing it to a halt and cutting the engine . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This experience shaped the political ambition that led ultimately to his coup of 23 July 1952 . |
| 6 | As managing partner of KMG Thomson McLintock , he played a leading role in the pre-merger discussions that led to the formation of KPMG Peat Marwick McLintock . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better get the glucose testing kit , ’ she mumbled as she edged towards the French window that led into the breakfast-room and then along a passage to the suite of rooms used by Faye and Bill . |
| 8 | Lord George Gordon , as President of the London Branch , convened in 1780 the great public meeting that led to the Gordon Riots . |
| 9 | They rested secure behind their trade barriers , and it was above all a British initiative that led to the creation of the single European market . |
| 10 | However , as Ketamine lacks the euphoric and social properties that led o the widespread use of MDMA , the drug is likely to disappear as suddenly as it seems to have emerged . |
| 11 | Manuel also took the free kick that led to Gayle 's goal , while Blissett 's 15th goal of the season was a 67th-minute header . |
| 12 | He turned left in the village of Wanswell and blasted the bike over the slight pitch and on into the twisty overgrown lanes that led to the village of Purton . |
| 13 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 14 | She had reached the top of the narrow wooden stairs that led into the single upper-storey chamber she shared with her mother . |
| 15 | We climbed the rickety wooden stairs that led up to a balcony ; as we did so , one of the eunuchs blew a kiss at me and the others burst out laughing . |
| 16 | But the great popularity of that sort of book in the 1920s and 1930s had another effect besides producing the series of direct variants that led eventually to the crime novel . |
| 17 | And he was gone , a trenchmac thrown round his shoulders , hurrying across the yard and along the old cloister that led to the exit , leaving behind him a trail of aromatic blue smoke . |
| 18 | She went to the window , that window , ’ and he pointed to the french windows that led out on to the terrace . |
| 19 | He waved behind him towards one of the French windows that led out to the formal gardens surrounding the palace . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , glancing round towards the french windows that led to the bar . |
| 21 | He climbed the short steep ladder that led back onto the deck . |
| 22 | It was not so much Jacobite principle that led to Nonjurism , but rather a sincerely held belief about the inviolable nature of oaths . |
| 23 | For weeks , staying in youth hostels and living off substantial farmhouse teas , I wandered the Dales in all weathers , often struggling in the fine morning drizzle along high paths that led only into the clouds , then turning , rewarded , to watch the sunlight dipping through the hills and valleys as the rain stopped , glistening on the crags and throwing giant shadows on the slopes . |
| 24 | Ten minutes later Father Poole walked painfully , with the aid of his stick , up the steep deserted street that led to his church . |
| 25 | She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing . |
| 26 | Beyond the door was a narrow corridor that led off to the right . |
| 27 | In the narrow passage that led through to the garden , they came upon Rafiq . |
| 28 | Even if the fighting dies down , no answer is in sight to the political issue that led to the war — the reluctance of most of Bosnia 's Serbs and many of its Croats to live in an independent Bosnian state . |
| 29 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 30 | The fields were dreary and forsaken , and in the marshy strip that led to the whimsey , a reedy pit-pond , the fowls had already abandoned their run among the alders , to roost in the tarred fowl-house ( 6 ) . |