Example sentences of "to lead [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One of the lessons we learned early on from QES was that it 's not enough to appoint a number of specialist trainers , brilliant though they may be , and expect them to lead change .
2 Coloured pigments also vary with time , especially if the fresco is not maintained under optimal conditions : white may change to brown ( lead white to lead oxide ) and blue may turn to green ( azurite to malachite ) .
3 AS INTEL , MICROSOFT HOPE TO LEAD INDUSTRY WITH WINPAD DESIGN
4 Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning .
5 As it happens , I do n't think I 'm the right person to lead humanity into the future , no .
6 A second petition to oust Rev Ann Fraser , 42 , came after she refused to lead Remembrance Day prayers at Auchtermuchty , Fife .
7 It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground .
8 Lacks experience to lead team .
9 It is available only through a workplace route , although colleges which can assess to lead body requirements can be approved to offer this qualification .
10 When he hires Sally Allport as assistant treasurer , Roberto Luciano to manage International Sales or Laurie Vickers to lead Development Engineering , he is seizing an investment opportunity .
11 ‘ Where the prosecution intends to lead evidence of verbal admissions or confessions , the defence should always be alerted before the start of the case of such intention and the terms of the admissions/confessions so as to give the defence an opportunity to determine whether or not to challenge the admissibility of the evidence . ’
12 At the trial of the appellant the Crown intended to lead evidence from the official shorthand writer at the Romford County Court , producing a transcript of the appellant 's public examination , and from an officer of the court , the appellant 's bankruptcy file .
13 ( 4 ) ( b ) ) and it is incompetent to seek to lead evidence regarding the other grounds of appeal : Johnston v. City of Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. 257 ; Troc Sales Ltd. v. Kirkcaldy District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 77 ; Cigaro ( Glasgow ) Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , cit. , all overruling Ladbroke Racing ( Scotland East ) Ltd. v. Midlothian District Licensing Board , 1981 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 12 .
14 The legislation does therefore not set up any presumption in the employee 's favour ; rather it is for him as claimant to lead evidence which tends to establish that it is more likely than not the employer gained from possession of the patent .
15 There has been a suspicion for many years that high rates of stomach cancer in parts of Wales may be linked to soil chemistry , specifically such factors as zinc/copper ratios , and to lead content in water supplies .
16 That is why his canonisation of the equally versatile Jeff Koons — ‘ a person who is trying to lead art into the twenty-first century ’ — carries such conviction .
17 One of the few factors mirroring lead levels was age of the house , in inner cities often relating also to lead water pipes and old lead-based paint .
18 The ministers who were dismissed seemed unlikely to lead backbench revolts .
19 Most New Zealand aero clubs seem to lead double ( or even triple ) lives .
20 He took her outstretched hand — very soft , very feminine — and allowed her to lead Rim away .
21 Now a woman had returned and was probably going to lead trouble back to him , and he wanted no part of it .
22 Hardman and Cooper ( 1980 ) , for example , report that the swan herd on the River Avon at Strafford declined from a population of eighty in 1963 to just four in 1978 , much of which is attributed to lead ingestion .
23 won last week at somewhere didn was n't last week to lead Slip Anchor .
24 Some sort of ventilation shaft should be provided to lead air to the centre of each heap .
25 Olympic ace to lead health bid
26 Workers set to lead city protest rally
27 In a well-known biography of Franklin Roosevelt , it is asserted , that ‘ the classic test of greatness in the White House has been the chief executive 's capacity to lead Congress . ’
28 We are training a group of mental health monitors from the refugee community who will be able to lead discussion groups using the pamphlets and also spot special cases of need for referral to us ' This training will also be very useful in the future during the reconstruction period , as community mental health workers are going to be essential .
29 The ability to sing a service is not , however , as important as having the skills required to lead worship .
30 The autumn harvest uprisings , for example , in the autumn of nineteen twenty seven which consisted of attempts to lead peasant risings erm in various parts of the countryside , particularly in the area er around here er Kiang See and so on where the peasant associations had been particularly strong .
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