Example sentences of "which lead to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the refusal to alter the birth certificate which led to the decision against Belgium in the Van Oosterwijk case . |
| 2 | So up I 'd get , wellies on , anorak over nightie , and stump up the steps which led to the sluice to start work . |
| 3 | A state entrance was under a porte-cochère on the Downing Street side which led to the suite of reception rooms occupying the entire first floor of the northern wing . |
| 4 | In 1966 it was Beryl who found the advertisement which led to the purchase of the property in Balham which became Medau House , the Society 's Headquarters for many years . |
| 5 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of a girl 's badly-acted laughter from behind the bead curtain which led to the interior of the brothel , punctuated by the growling of a man who is under the illusion that he is cock of the dunghill . |
| 8 | The black girl laughed and skipped away behind the curtain which led to the interior of the City of Dreams . |
| 9 | From the beginning of 1791 the London committee held a series of meetings at the Blenheim coffee house which led to the foundation of the Veterinary College on 8 April . |
| 10 | RIGHT : Thomas Burgess DD FRS , initiator of the move within the Odiham Society which led to the foundation of the Veterinary College . |
| 11 | He was a member of the committee , chaired by William Hammond [ q.v. ] , which led to the foundation of the Hull Trinity House Navigation School in 1787 . |
| 12 | The 1905 Convention was considered at the Sixth Session of the Conference in 1924 when a Protocol was agreed permitting accession by States not represented in 1905 and some further work was set in hand which led to the publication in 1929 of a proposed revised Convention . |
| 13 | In 1985 Mr Baker , Secretary of State for the Environment , undertook a fresh review of the problems of local taxation which led to the publication in 1986 of a Green Paper , Paying for Local Government ( Cmnd 9714 ) . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , he was carrying out his own investigations on the carcasses of horses which led to the publication in 1884 of his The Anatomy of the Horse — a Dissection Guide , followed in 1889 by The Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals . |
| 15 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 16 | It seems to have begun somewhat unexpectedly , when he was involved in a discussion which led to the question ‘ What is sense ? ’ |
| 17 | At the trial of the action the plaintiff conceded that the defendants could not have foreseen the precise chain of events which led to the explosion . |
| 18 | Nationalisation of the Bank in 1946 was a grand gesture of socialism in action but not an act which led to the capture of the commanding heights of finance . |
| 19 | She had offered a substantial reward for information which led to the capture of either of them , and had used what contacts she had with the London constabulary to have them both placed on their wanted lists — officially they were sought in connection with the " murderous attack " on two of her employees . |
| 20 | Soon after the outbreak of World War II , Sinclair was taken in by a deception operation mounted by the German Sicherheitsdienst ( the SS security service ) which led to the capture of two of his officers in the Dutch border town of Venlo . |
| 21 | Regularly employed on missions abroad , he was also closely involved with the king 's attempt to secure the bishopric of Durham for Henry 's brother Louis [ q.v. ] , which led to the capture and ransoming of both the Beaumonts by Thomas , Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , the court 's leading opponent , in 1317 . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition . |
| 23 | In addition , the conference was forced to accept the need to organize a campaign to compel the National government to drop its policy of non-intervention , an action which led to the formation of the Spain Campaign Committee . |
| 24 | The Dutch types were overwhelmingly preferred during the 1940s , when there was a general boom for dual-purpose breeds in Britain , but a few Canadian animals were preserved , bolstered by Canadian gifts of heifers to promote the Holstein in Britain which led to the formation of the separate British Holstein Society in 1947 . |
| 25 | Half a century later , in 1969 , First Artists Productions , a new independent film company , was set up by Paul Newman , Sidney Poitier and Barbra Streisand , with a similar aim — a balance between mammon and idealism — to that which led to the formation of UA . |
| 26 | BBC2 controller Alan Yentob said : ‘ It 's a fascinating story about a family business which led to the formation of the commercial network . ’ |
| 27 | The initiative which led to the formation of the UDC was taken by Charles Trevelyan on August 5th , the day after he resigned from a junior ministerial post at the Board of Education . |
| 28 | Even so , the conversion of Conservative chancellors to some form of planning — beginning with Selwyn Lloyd in 1960 — which led to the formation of the National Economic Development Council in 1962 , represented a new element in economic policy [ Polanyi , 1967 ] . |
| 29 | British members of Parliament invariably use it in their own defence when their opinions diverge from those of their constituency parties ; and the Labour Party 's introduction of compulsory reselection for sitting MPs before each general election was one of the catalysts of the split in the party which led to the formation of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 . |
| 30 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the conference on the third day passed a resolution , which led to the formation of the BDDA , but on the preceding days it was concerned with the Report of the Royal Commission and its recommendations in so far as they affected deaf and dumb people . |