Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , attending courses at the Civil Service College often led to more dissatisfaction when contrasted with the reality of civil service life . |
| 2 | It is of course possible that where either is inflicted as part of the preliminaries to intercourse , a defendant could be brought within the section even where the recipient fully consented to such acts . |
| 3 | If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head . |
| 4 | The focus on studying behaviour also led to much dispute over the appropriate level at which to try to explain that behaviour . |
| 5 | The government 's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation , rumour and gossip . |
| 6 | Mr Callaghan 's famous speech to the 1976 Labour party conference ( subsequently cited in many Conservative party publications ) admitted that governments could not spend their way into full employment ; that way only led to more inflation and eventually more unemployment . |
| 7 | In its fashion , the Labour Party also subscribed to this nostalgia , albeit directed towards Labour 's alternative ‘ people 's history ’ . |