Example sentences of "led [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
| 2 | This led into another thoroughfare , the far side of which was bordered by a high brick wall in which two iron gates were let , seemingly at the top of Spring Street , and giving entrance to a drive leading to a substantial red-brick house . |
| 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 | Also , in the meantime , a military revolt had taken place in the Spanish army , lead by General Franco , and it soon became clear the division of the contending sides were , on the one side , The Nationalists who were strongly supported by Italy , Germany and Portugal , and on The other side , the government forces , supported by Communist Russia , which led to that side being referred to as ‘ Republicans ’ . |
| 5 | However , most drama activity should not be seen as leading to a polished end product ; even where this is the result , the most significant educational value of the activity will often have been found in the process that led to that end product . |
| 6 | Lack of proper food led to much illness among seamen , both directly and in deficiency diseases such as scurvy and beri-beri and indirectly by reducing their resistance to other ailments . |
| 7 | This find led to much speculation about what scents these birds might follow . |
| 8 | The government 's prolonged sixteen-month silence over the Griffiths Report naturally led to much speculation , rumour and gossip . |
| 9 | This , coupled with the corruption and favouritism of many of the officials who administered it , made it widely unpopular and led to much evasion of the obligations it imposed . |
| 10 | Verdicts were , however , subject to ‘ review ’ by the Supreme Court on six rather ill-defined grounds , a procedure which led to much confusion . |
| 11 | The focus on studying behaviour also led to much dispute over the appropriate level at which to try to explain that behaviour . |
| 12 | This dismal monumentalism is the apotheosis of impersonality , a confirmation rather than a denial of the mindset which led to such slaughter in the first place , though the architect intended no irony . |
| 13 | The pictures which led to such demand for the Daily Mirror that the Sold Out signs went up at newsagents all over the country . |
| 14 | From our study , however , there was no evidence that supplemental oxygen led to any reduction of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias in patients over 60 . |
| 15 | In each year , less than 800 of these cases led to any form of criminal or disciplinary action , and the vast majority of even this small number involved nothing more severe than ‘ advice or admonishment ’ — 651 of the 766 cases in 1987 , for example . |
| 16 | This led to some discussion on the Earl 's attitudes and behaviour . |
| 17 | It also led to some boxing lessons somewhere in Boston 's South End . |
| 18 | Goals from John Morrissey , John Aldridge and Neil McNab put paid to Southend in front of 5,870 fans , but there was a slack spell in the second half which led to some booing . |
| 19 | His success led to some intimacy with the Indians , who told him that a vast sea lay off to the west — a sea , and a land , infinitely rich in gold . |
| 20 | He was a conscientious and hard worker , filled with a sense of mission which led to some misinterpretation by the Whig-Liberal group . |
| 21 | The indisposition of the 8F led to some speculation by passengers on the Cambrian Limited , last Sunday , that the Standard 4 No 75069 would fulfil the Red Rose roster in place of No 8233 . |
| 22 | In the decade before the war , Jewish settlement in the East End led to some involvement in the London underworld on the part of the Jewish population . |
| 23 | Later research by Sundborg ( 1956 ) on the river Klarälven , also in Sweden , led to some modification of the relationships produced by Hjulstrøm . |
| 24 | The related issue of inflation and interest rates led to some disagreement on fiscal policy between Alan Greenspan , chairman of the Federal Reserve Board , and the Bush administration . |
| 25 | Any conversation at that period was bound to touch on the state of the world , and the question of social reform at home ; and the allusion to the New English Weekly , which to some extent we regarded as ‘ our ’ paper , led to some talk of similar minority reviews , including G.K. 's Weekly . |
| 26 | ‘ It led to some confusion in the department and mistakes may have been made . |
| 27 | New demands on management led to some confusion as to whether there were in existence models which were still of value . |
| 28 | Indeed , the altered conditions of 1939 led to some co-operation between fascist , anti-semitic and pro-German groups , although Leese was excluded from the informal alliance . |
| 29 | The civil disorders and dynastic feuds between Lancaster and York presumably led to some destruction of wealth , although it is virtually impossible to judge how much . |
| 30 | It was this last point which at the time led to some discomfort about OD . |