Example sentences of "lead [adv] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1960s and 1970s interest in the language of Caribbeans in British schools led eventually to the publication of specialised teaching materials and the implementation of policies in the light of two Commissions of Inquiry ( Bullock 1975 ; Rampton 1981 ) . |
| 2 | However , in the short term there was a problem because economic development led necessarily to the integration of territories , and this threatened the much smaller areas which coincided with nationalities . |
| 3 | Five seconds later they opened again , and I was in a wide corridor which appeared to lead right to the rear of the building . |
| 4 | Discussions concerning the contentious issue of Bougainville 's future status were deferred , although many commentators speculated that , if the agreement was to hold , it would have to lead ultimately to the granting of greater autonomy to PNG 's North Solomons province which encompassed Bougainville . |
| 5 | Sukarno 's repressive nationalist regime led directly to the massacre of perhaps a million of his communist supporters , gross civil rights abuses , torture , the illegal invasion of East Timor , and the current police state . |
| 6 | Follow-up of this reference in 1978 led directly to the identification of a Cu-Zn-Au deposit ( Jones and others , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | His conclusion that : " The necessity for a reconsideration of the library arises … from the adoption by many institutions of methods of teaching which emphasize student responsibility and self-direction , " ( op. cit. : 8 ) led directly to the kind of experimentation which took place at Monteith , and which is vividly recorded in Dr Knapp 's seminal account . |
| 8 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 9 | The pattern of a single central bank was broken and the creation of the Royal Bank led directly to the establishment of such competitors as the British Linen Bank ( 1746 ) , the Commercial Bank ( 1810 ) and the National Bank ( 1825 ) . |
| 10 | In the twentieth century it was the growth in the power and influence of this élite , along with the example of the Indian movement for independence , which led directly to the end of colonial rule . |
| 11 | Kamal Jumblatt 's assassination in 1977 led directly to the succession of his son Walid as leader of the Druze and as commander of the ‘ Leftist Alliance ’ , the agglomeration of Lebanese Muslim and Palestinian guerrillas which generally represented the nationalists . |
| 12 | There are numerous walks ; directly from Blacklands you can follow the East Malling stream which runs through its garden , through the East Malling village conservation area , and leads right to the source of the stream in the pretty hamlet of West Stree ; you can also join the Pilgrims Way , the medieval route from Winchester to Canterbury which can be reached 2 miles away . |
| 13 | And at Michigan State University , Professor H. Ti Tien and his team have mimicked the all-important event of charge-separation — the generation of photo-excited electrons that leads eventually to the biosynthesis of carbohydrates from carbon dioxide . |
| 14 | The walk may be continued beyond the ruins to Swinner Gill where a track leads upstream to the site of the Swinnergill Lead Mine , a scene of industrial devastation , a scarred landscape that nature has been unable to heal . |
| 15 | Above the ledge a steep crack leads apparently to the security of a deep recess , curving leftwards , which I flew at hoping to regain the sun . |
| 16 | ‘ The criticism of religion leads naturally to the criticism of social relations , ’ observed Ellen . |
| 17 | The widespread and striking consistency of this underlying pattern of true managerial layers leads naturally to the question of why it occurs . |
| 18 | Indeed , as we have already seen , normal science ultimately leads only to the recognition of anomalies and to crises . |
| 19 | Interesting euphemism : ‘ useful violence ’ — leading perhaps to the creation of terms such as ‘ constructive murder ’ or ‘ helpful massacre ’ ? |
| 20 | Imperceptibly leading away to the right from the right hand cairn is the High Level Route , but if it all looks too daunting simply ascend Pillar by keeping to the ridge ( 1 mile ) . |
| 21 | The gully is steep and rough but not beyond the ability of an average walker , and leads unerringly to the depression on the ridge , whence a simple climb up to the right leads to the summit cairn of Caisteal Liath . |
| 22 | In the fourteenth century the Cloud-author makes the same point quite explicitly : The Cloud-author also provides an acute analysis of the way these terms interact in a continuum of activity both external and internal which leads finally to the possibility of the gift of contemplation . |
| 23 | Beginners are given intensive language teaching , leading rapidly to the reading of original texts , and are able , on successful completion of the course , to join former 1B students in the second-year class . |
| 24 | To its rear is a gate leading directly to the Palace through the Royal Park with its free-roaming wild deer . |
| 25 | These continue , needless to say , in the scene which follows the rise of the curtain , where Grimes 's behaviour once more leads directly to the death of his apprentice . |
| 26 | This functional differentiation of the state apparatus leads potentially to the fragmentation of political authority , because of the problems of coordination and direction by the central executive authority , the government . |
| 27 | Rather , developments have proceeded incrementally with early initiatives such as the Rayner Scrutiny Programme leading subsequently to the introduction of departmental management information systems and the Financial Management Initiative . |
| 28 | The buoyancy of the moment led also to the rejection of the nominee of the six foreign ministers for the presidency of the Assembly . |
| 29 | This profound change in the structure of the economy and society led also to the growth of a new class of people . |
| 30 | Seeing that a French invasion was a possibility in 1803 , he joined the Volunteers , and used the sonnet as ‘ a trumpet ’ to encourage national resistance , for the principle of national self-determination led logically to the defence of one 's own country . |