Example sentences of "which lead " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 2 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 3 | Jay lived best when inspired ; for her love had always been the inspiration ; she lived and wrote from passion , passion which led to the abyss . |
| 4 | By the time she found it , booked a ride for the next day and searched — without success — for tennis courts , and pushed the bike up the steep hill which led to the cottage , it was mid-afternoon . |
| 5 | These were the circumstances which led BR to terminate HST building with a fleet of ninety-five operational trains . |
| 6 | It is this relationship which led to Ernest Newman 's remark that , ‘ The ballet was living music ’ ( see page 41 ) . |
| 7 | But who knows also the beauty which lies in wait hereabouts , which led Williams and Bingley to make the climb ? |
| 8 | They were the gate by which he entered on to the path which led ultimately to his acceptance as the authority on the distribution of arctic-alpine flora in Britain . |
| 9 | Exactly how long Hughes lived at 94 Portland Street , London , is uncertain but the first experiments which led to the development of the microphone were conducted here during 1878–80 . |
| 10 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 11 | He had a passionate interest in music and opera which led him to design several operatic sets . |
| 12 | ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem . |
| 13 | ‘ We did not wish to create conditions which led to possible violence . ’ |
| 14 | There is a paternalistic assumption lurking here , which reminds me of that which led to the disastrous council housing estates of the Sixties and early Seventies . |
| 15 | Craig Luxton , a New Zealand-born scrum-half on the England periphery , rubbed salt into the self-inflicted wounds with a series of tap-penalties and darting thrusts , one of which led to a 90-metre break-out and a second try for Gavin Thompson — one of the game 's few high points . |
| 16 | Sir : The extraordinary circumstances which led to Uppark being preserved , virtually unchanged , since the early nineteenth century are well known . |
| 17 | A gas leak on an unmanned North Sea platform which led to the evacuation of 70 workers from a nearby drilling rig was successfully sealed . |
| 18 | THE NUNS in Northamptonshire who are battling to save their 5,000 chickens from slaughter said yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture had changed its story over the type of salmonella responsible for the outbreak of food poisoning which led to the flock being tested . |
| 19 | Details are emerging of the final stages of the talks which led to the collapse of the bid on Tuesday night . |
| 20 | There was a failure to invest , an inability to sustain science which led to renewed talk of a ‘ brain drain' of British scientists to American and other campuses , an inherent suspicion and division which prevented effective collaboration in industry . |
| 21 | It was Liverpool 's housing and employment problems which had sparked the Toxteth race riots , and which led Michael Heseltine to launch a much-publicized new initiative at inner-city regeneration through more inward private investment . |
| 22 | Shakespeare and Racine — or rather the developments which led up to them — each found his own reason . |
| 23 | It was Peters who chided him about his frail physique , which led to his regular attendance at August 's Gymnasium , which was in the basement of Apley Hall . |
| 24 | The third National Government was not a power-sharing coalition , but a coalition which led to party fusion . |
| 25 | But this is misleading in the sense that much of this expenditure did generate purchasing power in recipient countries , which led to demand for dollar goods , demand which was not effectively curtailed by the exchange controls . |
| 26 | The advocates of a more rapid rundown were hampered by the domination of the debate by manpower figures , which led the issue away from the balance of payments . |
| 27 | In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge . |
| 28 | It was in fact my experience of working with the banks and institutions for the recapitalisation and reconstruction of John Brown which led me to think that the City is much maligned over its attitudes to industry and the accusation of short-termism is not justified . |
| 29 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |
| 30 | The Basingstoke Canal at Claycart had around three inches of ice which led to the cancellation of the HBCAA Open and there was two and a half inches of ice on the Oxford Canal which led to the scrapping of the Banbury Open . |