Example sentences of "lead [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ short-sighted ’ award would simply lead to a deterioration in morale , cause difficulties implementing the Government 's patient 's charter and lead to more staff leaving the health service , she said .
2 Although large numbers of staff are not involved , the changes will lead to a reduction in Home Office manpower .
3 In the letter to Mr Fallon Lord Swaythling said there was no doubt that Labour 's policies about tobacco advertising and sponsorship could lead to a reduction in jobs at Rothmans in the North-East of England .
4 A spokesman for City Sites said that it did not envisage that the sale would lead to a reduction in rental income over the year .
5 It does not believe that blanket measures to reduce overall consumption , for example higher taxes or restrictions on availability , would lead to a reduction in alcohol misuse .
6 Sale et al. ( 1975 ) have suggested that increased public education about the facts of attempted suicide , as opposed to commonly held beliefs , might contribute to the development of less favourable attitudes , which in turn might lead to a reduction in suicide attempts .
7 Strict enforcement of speed limits on motorways and other main roads in Britain would lead to a reduction in fuel consumption which would in turn reduce the country 's pollution problems , according to the environmental consultancy Earth Resources Research .
8 ‘ There are those who would say it is n't in the public interest and would lead to a diminution in standards of pleading .
9 Any factor that interferes with this negative feedback loop could lead to a rise in gastrin values .
10 Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes .
11 For the moment notice that if the typical supplier infers that her price is higher than she was initially expecting solely because of a relative demand shift in her favour , then the typical expected average price level will remain at P and the rise in the aggregate demand curve will lead to a rise in output equal to y 1 - y n .
12 Indeed , it does not lead to a rise in output at all , but to a fall .
13 A general fall in aggregate investment may lead to a rise in unemployment and so contribute to the phenomenon of ‘ stagflation ’ .
14 In diagram ( b ) the fall in r will lead to a rise in investment and other forms of borrowing ( I ) .
15 Recall that the optimality theory says that an increase in k should lead to a fall in X , and that our subjects ( on the second repetition ) appeared to be doing the opposite .
16 But , apart from this possibility , an increase in the money supply should lead to a fall in interest rates , other things being equal .
17 On the other hand , removal of a functional group interacting with a residue other than His197 should lead to a decrease in affinity for the H197A mutant compared with the wild type , analogous to what is observed for the parent compound CP 96345 .
18 But it was always feared that a Clinton victory in an American Presidential election might lead to a shift in US policy with regard to the Northern Ireland problem .
19 The Soviet Union , for its part , was reportedly attracted by the potential of the Indonesian domestic market and , specifically , by the possibility that restraints on Indonesian military spending might lead to a shift in procurement away from Western armaments to less expensive Soviet ones .
20 In forestry , these chemicals can lead to a decline in water quality and to declines in aquatic fauna and flora .
21 This will lead to a decline in form for the scum who will choke and finish second leading to mass sucide in the media especially at the BBC , the Times and the Torygraph .
22 As this will inevitably lead to a drop in prices , the group intends to defend its position by offering a product that can be sold in high volumes on a global scale .
23 In the North East the commissioning of treatment plants and other pollution control measures will lead to a drop in discharges .
24 The results so far suggest that although meters are expensive to install they do lead to a drop in consumption .
25 This could lead to a drop in temperature of between 5 and 10 degrees centigrade over the region , with the curtailment of the spring growing season and consequent losses of food production .
26 ‘ They will lead to a drop in wages for many of the two-and-a-half million people , four-fifths of whom are women . ’
27 Professor Chapman points out that this does not necessarily lead to a drop in standards of physical care , but stresses the apparent risk that patients may occasionally be made to feel ‘ merely an appendage to a machine ’ .
28 Even outside these types of confrontation , the very differences in language and traditions can lead to a breakdown in communication .
29 Since they are not produced by the body , we must get them from our diet and a deficiency in one can lead to an impairment in others .
30 The removal of such barriers would increase market entry which would directly lead to an increase in competition , and thereby to reductions in X-inefficiency and monopoly pricing practices .
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