Example sentences of "event that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand why Idealism became dominant in the early years one only has to think about the event that led to the establishment of the subject , namely , the First World War . |
| 2 | We shall begin our discussion of components of population change by looking at mortality since death is a well-defined event that happens to everyone . |
| 3 | An accident was regarded as any unplanned event that resulted in injury or ill-health of people ; damage or loss to property , plant , materials , or the environment ; or a loss of a business opportunity . |
| 4 | One event that seems to me to be very important is Vatican Two . |
| 5 | You may be interested in an event that happened to me after our Remembrance Service at East Kirkby early this July . |
| 6 | This is the one kite event that benefits from noise ! |
| 7 | The main concept in associative learning theory is that there is a basic unit of learning which consists of a more or less permanent connection between two events : a stimulus ( S ) , which is any object or event that acts on an organism , and the reaction to it , or response ( R ) that the learner makes . |
| 8 | Thus the death of his father is not an event that impinges on a child only at one particular point : it may go on producing shock waves through its continuing effect on the mother , which in turn may bring about a different relationship with the child ; in addition there may be economic difficulties as a result of which the mother has to go out to work , a new home has to be found , and an altogether new lifestyle adopted . |
| 9 | If you are not part of a discussion group you can still represent your parish at the Diocesan Assembly and become involved in local and Diocesan events that develop from there . |
| 10 | The role of calcium in stimulating maturation promoting factor at fertilization was described earlier and here I shall concentrate on the G1 events that culminate in activation of DNA synthesis-promoting factor . |
| 11 | Technically , Sami was a confidential informant ( CI ) for Michael Pavlick , the DEA 's country attaché in Paris , but he was to play a vital part in Operation Goldenrod , a project preoccupying the NARCOG task force in Nicosia when Coleman arrived there , and which was to touch off the chain reaction of events that exploded over Lockerbie 21 months later . |
| 12 | It was this interplay of ideas and practical events that lay behind the ‘ interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s and 1970s and was to have a powerful influence over both psychological and sociological thinking about crime and deviance . |
| 13 | This book sheds some light on events that deserve to be better known as for many the months that elapsed proved fatal . |
| 14 | Events that seemed to me to lie in a past as remote as the Second Kingdom were as vivid now to my mother and Lili as the day they had happened . |
| 15 | Co-opting a sports or stage celebrity guarantees that they , or one of their famous friends , are likely to be available to open the summer fair , attend the leaving presentations and sports day and generally add glamour to all the events that benefit from maximum publicity . |
| 16 | It seems that the InsP 3 -calcium and DAG-PKC pathways can contribute to the sequence of events that culminates in DNA synthesis , particularly in primary cells such as lymphocytes , liver and glial cells . |
| 17 | But the political spite it betrayed must at least rank as a contributory factor in the sequence of events that led to Clapham and King 's Cross . |
| 18 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 19 | It was , however , the most important group within the civil rights movement and it initiated the events that led to the creation of a mass movement . |
| 20 | The actual events that led to Johnson 's life-ban are shrouded in confusion , mystery and appalling bad luck . |
| 21 | The momentous events that led to Ayatollah Khomeini 's triumphal return to Teheran in 1979 had long overtaken the problems of Ashi 's private life . |
| 22 | THE tragic events that led to a couple gassing themselves and their mentally handicapped daughter emerged last night . |
| 23 | Preston referee Jim Parker appears at the FA this afternoon to explain his version of events that led to the West Brom players reporting him for swearing . |
| 24 | Turning now to the history of science for a less-artificial example , we might consider the train of events that led to the discovery of the planet Neptune . |
| 25 | In the early 1960s the king became a major actor in the events that led to independence for his country in 1968 . |
| 26 | It is believed that the sequence of events that led to core damage involved equipment malfunctions , design-related problems , and human errors , all of which contributed in varying degrees to the accident ( US NUREG-0600 , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | Paris awarded it to Aphrodite , beginning a chain of events that led to the Trojan War9 . |
| 28 | Western experts have been reconstructing the course of events that led to the explosion in a tank containing uranium and plutonium , with the help of reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency , which visited the site after the incident . |
| 29 | Researchers investigating the causes of psychological depression spent a long time carefully documenting how severe , traumatizing events that happen to people , such as bereavement or job loss , can induce it . |
| 30 | According to attribution theory people have an in-built need to explain events that happen to them , so they can integrate and master them . |