Example sentences of "[noun] that led " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a meeting with Menem in New York on Oct. 1 the US President George Bush had welcomed the Argentine decision to send troops to assist in the blockade of Iraq in the Gulf [ see p. 37694 ] , stating that Argentina had " rejoined the international community after many years of frustration and isolation that led the country to a critical situation " . |
| 2 | Similarly , the release of sex hormones in the spring , which stimulates reproduction ( p. 46 ) , also stimulates northward migration , an association that led the biologist J. B. S. Haldane to remark that although ‘ we must be very careful in attributing human motives to animals , the emotion behind migration to breeding places is almost certainly more like human love than hunger or curiosity . ’ |
| 3 | Some of the same thinking that led Balcon to MGM persuaded Hitchcock , in 1939 , to sign a deal with David O. Selznick and emigrate to Hollywood . |
| 4 | This was the thinking that led Hollywood to move away from labour disputes and political ideas . |
| 5 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 6 | The reasoning that led to this development was clearly expressed in a remarkable passage in a late writing known as the Persian Rivayat : |
| 7 | Léonie wheeled , scrambled back past the baker 's , and fled along the boulevard edged with limes that led to the church and the walled cemetery , to the lane beyond . |
| 8 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
| 9 | It was probably this inability to recognize defeat that led to his continuing attacks on the Somme and to the prolonged bloodbath at Passchendaele . |
| 10 | In arguing the Slovak case for the altar Mr Richard Marsina , a historian charged with heading the Slovak commission for drawing up claims , points to Prago-centrism — one of the grievances that led to Slovakia following its path to independent statehood . |
| 11 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 12 | The fourth series ( starting on Wednesday , BBC1 , 4.35pm ) covers plenty of ground quizzing people about relationships , models about their looks and one teenager with an obsession that led him to wash his hands until they bled . |
| 13 | It was this episode that led S C F on the path to arguing for a reform of the international system for humanitarian relief . |
| 14 | CYPRIOT club Apollon , Liverpool 's hosts in this week 's second leg Cup Winners Cup-tie , were involved in a riot on Saturday that led to a referee 's strike and postponement of yesterday 's Cyprus League games . |
| 15 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 16 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 17 | And it was that habit of speaking his mind that led to his downfall . |
| 18 | The incident provoked a demonstration that led to the arrest and beating of Vuk Draskovic , head of the Serbian Renewal Movement , the largest opposition democratic party . |
| 19 | It was purely financial considerations that led Asquith to set eligibility for pensions at the arbitrary age of 70 ) even though 65 was the age used by most occupational and charitable pension schemes . |
| 20 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 21 | It is this attempt by Fabians and New Liberals to conjoin ethical and evolutionary considerations that led to the most sustained criticism of their theories . |
| 22 | Behind him , two men in long overcoats stepped out from the shadow of a doorway and watched the young man turn to the left again , heading up the main backstreet that led to Joseph Hyde 's flat . |
| 23 | Of this , £1 million is a large chunk that will reduce the UK 's ability to contribute to the type of research that led to the discovery of the Z o . |
| 24 | The health connection was the motivation for the research that led to keen medical interest and the endorsement of the benefits of dietary fibre . |
| 25 | The sequence of the research that led to the final publication is as follows . |
| 26 | The road was beginning to rise slightly , an incline that led to a gentle crest . |
| 27 | It was Cantona 's exclusion by Leeds against Arsenal that led to his shock transfer last week . |
| 28 | I hurried down steep Flower Hill , a flowerless road of grey terraced houses and shops that led down to the bridge and the weir . |
| 29 | It was Mr Nearn 's interest in the car that led him , in 1959 , to set up Caterham Car Sales and Coachworks with three friends . |
| 30 | Then we came to a smashed yellow stone façade and a doorway that led down into a cellar . |