Example sentences of "led [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hung on until the battering ceased , then ran , slithering in the sluicing torrent of water until they reached the hatch that led below decks . |
| 2 | Exquisitely carved wooden animals , birds , masks , flowers , and hanging mobiles , twinkled in the sunlight , enticing visitors into doorways which led into shops resembling Aladdin 's caves . |
| 3 | As we have seen , some of his work led to friendships — not all of which were uncomplicated . |
| 4 | The movement of peoples , associated with the great increase in population of the thirteenth century , led to wars which , for example , in Spain were associated with the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from Moorish control , but which were also waged to satisfy the urge to find new lands , as was to happen in northern and eastern Germany under the rule of the Teutonic Knights . |
| 5 | Carrying out similar substitutions to the ones that led to equations ( 3.45 ) we obtain : |
| 6 | His discovery led to contacts with leading physicists who were investigating the recently discovered Zeeman Effect ( the way in which an atom 's spectrum is influenced by magnetism ) , including ( Sir ) Joseph John Thomson [ q.v . ] , |
| 7 | In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 8 | Within hours of the closure of the polls , news of Aristide 's victory led to scenes of national euphoria not witnessed since the overthrow in 1986 of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship . |
| 9 | For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University . |
| 10 | This construction usually evoked great alarm among the surrounding natives and led to attempts to destroy the fort which had been built on their land … |
| 11 | Brown 's unpredictability and his refusal to endorse Clinton led to attempts by senior members of the party to prevent him from addressing the convention . |
| 12 | This led to incidents where US ships were stopped and searched . |
| 13 | Loyalty to the old King did nothing to establish Drummonds with his heir — and indeed the story has it that curbing the Prince 's spending on the orders of the King led to Drummonds being abandoned by the new monarch in favour of Coutts . |
| 14 | This input led to policies and strategies based on theoretical insights first gained in Latin America . |
| 15 | The government 's strategy led to policies to control public expenditure and to reduce the provision of goods and services by the state . |
| 16 | Radical reshaping of the group 's operations away from retail outlets and into bakery operations led to write-offs last year , but this time there were no below-the-line expenses for store closures . |
| 17 | Both led to memoirs which became classics . |
| 18 | Ukraine 's and Moldova 's refusal to sign this agreement led to threats from Russia that they would be treated as foreign countries . |
| 19 | Not all shipowners found it equally easy to collect non-union crews , while the requirements of the merchant service and differences between the trade undertaken by various shipowners led to variations in willingness or pressing need to resist union demands and to sink their differences against what they regarded as unwarranted union attacks upon their commercial interests . |
| 20 | The traditional building in these materials led to variations in style and construction . |
| 21 | Many of the post-war inquiries were into big , difficult subjects , like the investigation carried out by Sir Edmund Compton into allegations of security force brutality in Northern Ireland , or the inquiry by Sir John Wolfenden into homosexual offences and prostitution , which led to changes in the law . |
| 22 | Peasgood , in a more recent exercise , described how studies of subject use in an academic library revealed considerable variations , and led to changes in allocations policy . |
| 23 | How many of them led to changes in classroom practice ? |
| 24 | One way of illustrating this is to explore the ways in which economic pressures led to changes in the content and style of the newspaper . |
| 25 | According to Olson , it was not the beliefs of the eighteenth century essayists that led to changes in the conception of language and rationality , an assertion that could be tested against the historical evidence , but the forms they used , the alphabet and the essay . |
| 26 | Many turnpike roads like the canals and railways after them , produced minor settlements or led to changes in existing ones . |
| 27 | This was a fundamental contribution to the phenomenon of absorption and led to changes in the composition of artificial manures . |
| 28 | This led to companies like Dupont axing 189,000 jobs on a global basis . |
| 29 | Clouds of soot and oily particles obscured the sun and led to downpours of " black rain " in northern Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . |
| 30 | This was the reasoning which led to discussions on the possibility of a European Political Community . |