Example sentences of "lead [adv] to a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a masterpiece of international cinema which brought Korda all the financial backing he could need and a dream deal with United Artists that led eventually to a partnership in the American company . |
| 2 | The decline of around 35 per cent in the number of births between 1964 and 1977 led rightly to a review of the provision of educational places . |
| 3 | Apollinaire and Hourcade added that this conceptual or intellectual approach led naturally to a selection of simple geometric forms . |
| 4 | With the funds available , Florey collaborated with Chain , whose work on lysozyme , already mentioned , led naturally to a study of a wider range of antibacterial agents . |
| 5 | Leeds were again without their six-figure signing from Hull , Lee Crooks , and the Great Britain forward 's mysterious absences are likely to lead shortly to a parting of the ways . |
| 6 | In a developing country , like India , a preference for sons would be expected to lead initially to a reduction in the birth rate , which would be to the country 's advantage ; and before long , the more farsighted parents will realise that in order to have grandchildren , they should select not sons , who may not be able to find wives , but daughters , who will be sought after , and be able to enter into advantageous marriages . |
| 7 | Talk of regional governmental or elected assemblies seemed pointless eyewash , a sign of weakness in the face of the nationalist challenge ; a policy designed to lead either to a call for total independence for Scotland and Wales or to a permanent loss of authority by Whitehall and therefore a diminution in the competence of Scottish and Welsh MPs . |
| 8 | Other centrally sponsored events , including a Film Premier and the Battle of Britain Ball , raised substantial sums for the Appeal and the Association 's links with the Rugby League led directly to a donation to the Appeal by the League of £10,000 at the Rugby League 1990 Challenge Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 9 | But the inherent political weaknesses of the struggles , the chronic inability to attract support from other sections of labour , and the social composition of the unemployed led directly to a collapse of militancy after state intervention . |
| 10 | Since there was a higher population and a greater surplus of output people had a higher disposable income ; this led directly to a desire for more than just food and a demand for material commodities for the household ( pottery , cutlery , more and better clothing in cotton and wool ) . |
| 11 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 12 | Strands of wool are loosened by the prolonged sucking and may be swallowed , leading eventually to a blockage of the cat 's intestines , requiring surgery . |
| 13 | However , as we saw in the final sections of that chapter , a consideration of single word identification leads naturally to a consideration of the larger linguistic units in which words normally occur ; and hence we concluded the previous chapter with a discussion of contextual effects on visual and auditory word recognition . |
| 14 | This leads naturally to a comparison of the two methods . |
| 15 | This leads naturally to a review of the nature and potential of collective actors and the field of action in which they might be engaged . |
| 16 | At the practical level , a discussion of the one leads quickly to a consideration of the other . |
| 17 | The Treaty went on to state : ‘ This Treaty marks a new stage in the process leading gradually to a union with a federal goal ’ . |
| 18 | But sexual and intellectual promiscuity — the frequent substitution of one partner , idea or belief for another — involves a constant deferral of meaning that leads inevitably to a distrust of language and an uneasiness with regard to self-definition . |
| 19 | It leads instead to a proliferation of metaphoric links between objects : the bark of a fig tree is described as looking like ‘ a thigh of creased denim ’ , ‘ a system of parallel highways ’ and ‘ neural cells ’ ( 26/28 ) . |
| 20 | Church lane leads westwards to a row of council houses , Church Mount , the old vicarage ( no longer used as a residence for the vicar ) and Mill Farm , now empty . |
| 21 | A theoretical stress upon biblical study , an active laity , the reunion of Christians , and a positive commitment to the service of the world in its cultural , social and economic needs , coupled with an absence of guidance as to how all this was to be done and how far one could go in these various directions , led both to a state of real popular enthusiasm but also , almost inevitably , to tension and conflict . |
| 22 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 23 | Although , according to conditioned attention theory , exposure to a stimulus will inevitably lead eventually to a decline in its power to evoke an attentional response , this decline can be postponed ( even for a time reversed ) if the target stimulus ( S1 ) is followed by some other ( S2 ) during initial exposure . |
| 24 | That can lead only to a number of results . |
| 25 | A really wide definition , aimed at including all gifts proceeding from benevolent motives , would certainly resolve most of the questions which arise today , but , besides perpetuating a number of imprudent gifts , might well lead later to a multiplicity of special definitions of charity for the purpose of particular statutes ; the Treasury , for example , would probably find that too much income tax was being avoided and introduce a special definition for tax purposes . |
| 26 | From the point of view of social and economic policy I believe we face a choice : either we accept the present trends which will lead inevitably to a decline in individual freedom and responsibility and the restriction of opportunities for our children and grandchildren or else we face the seemingly impossible task of dismantling the corporate state . |
| 27 | [ music ] There is a corollary to this in the curious offset notes and phrases of the vocal melody which lend a kind of speech colour to the basically simple tonal language , while giving mobility to the harmony ( a change of direction in an unaccompanied vocal figure may lead unceremoniously to a change of key ) . |
| 28 | The problem revealed by the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee led unquestionably to a view of family allowances as incentives to work rather than an encouragement to depend unduly on unemployment benefit . |
| 29 | In this perspective , it was industrialization and urbanization which triggered those processes and which led ultimately to a weakening of family ties , and especially ties with kin outside the so-called ‘ conjugal family ’ composed of a couple and their immature children ( Morgan , 1975 , ch. 2 ; Harris , 1983 , chs. 6–8 ) . |
| 30 | Most important of all , however , is the way that structuralist.principles lead eventually to a questioning of the nature of critical discourse itself . |