Example sentences of "to lead to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current expansion and urban growth in the Southern population has also affected the protestant community , and the increased pressure on schools in urban areas , such as Dublin , is likely to lead to a diminution of the protestant-catholic character of most protestant schools , unless deliberate decisions are taken to preserve the balance . |
| 2 | These were overtaken by the Government 's plans to deregulate the British securities market , announced in 1983 , which were to lead to Big Bang . |
| 3 | The three abortion cases , which may be reached in December , are unlikely to lead to a clean reversal of Roe v Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which granted an absolute right to abortion in the first three months of pregnancy and an almost unrestricted right in the next three . |
| 4 | On the basis of a 5-4 majority in a Missouri case judged in July , the cases are expected to lead to expansion of the right of individual states to pass laws regulating abortions . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's no doubt that 's going to lead to dumping . |
| 6 | Unless road pricing is applied to all roads , irrespective of their current state of congestion , it is likely to lead to further decentralisation as the motoring public and commerce move out to avoid extra transport costs . |
| 7 | ISRAEL 'S inner cabinet yesterday deferred a decision on whether to accept Egypt 's invitation to convene Israeli and Palestinian delegations for talks designed to lead to a resolution of the dispute in the occupied territories . |
| 8 | Almost 80 per cent of Tory voters say they are unlikely to change parties if the NHS plans go ahead , but 70 per cent believe the proposals are likely to lead to privatisation of the NHS , with 62 per cent seeing the changes leading to worse standards of care and treatment . |
| 9 | While we do this we must beware of those who are so hungry for authority in our societies that they want to press the authority of the Bible over men and the Church in such a way as to lead to extravagance or to sectarianism . |
| 10 | Here was the genesis of the myth , destined to lead to so many follies and disasters , that Britain was rich , as well as powerful , because of her Empire . |
| 11 | In his memoirs he answers the charge : ‘ Some Tories , like me , are criticised for this supposed failing ( of being patrician ) which is said to lead to moral softness , in contrast with the toughness of those who have had to fight their way in life . |
| 12 | This conflict between tariff reformers and free traders was to lead to the ‘ agreement to differ ’ convention in January 1932 , and the resignation of the Liberals from the government in September 1932 ; but , until they resigned , the National Government was a genuine coalition in the sense in which that term is used on the continent : a government comprising independent yet conflicting elements allied together , a government within which party conflict was not superseded but rather contained — in short , a power-sharing government , albeit a seriously unbalanced one . |
| 13 | The conditions laid down were therefore designed to differentiate the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition , and to make it clear that the National Government was not intended , as the Lloyd George coalition had been , to lead to a permanent realignment of the party system . |
| 14 | ‘ We would n't want to do anything likely to lead to a breach of the peace , would we ? ’ |
| 15 | Although representatives of the Prussian ruling class they played a necessary role in the development of the national aspirations of the people which was to lead to our new Germany … . ’ |
| 16 | However , Lebanese observers say this blow is unlikely to lead to an immediate resumption of the war between the Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , and the Syrians and their Lebanese Muslim allies . |
| 17 | However , Lebanese observers say this blow is unlikely to lead to an immediate resumption of the war between the Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , and the Syrians and their Lebanese Muslim allies . |
| 18 | Bob Keville , chairman of the Lloyd 's Insurance Brokers Committee , predicted the change was ‘ bound to lead to more business coming Lloyd 's way in future . ’ |
| 19 | Bob Keville , chairman of the Lloyd 's Insurance Brokers Committee , predicted the change was ‘ bound to lead to more business coming Lloyd 's way in future . ’ |
| 20 | OFFICIALS from the Group-of-Seven largest seven market economies will gather in Frankfurt today to put the finishing touches to a plan designed to lead to a $35billion increase in the resources of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 21 | The integration of JobCentres and unemployment benefit offices is expected to lead to redundancies . |
| 22 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 23 | The short-cuts provided in weapon development were to lead to a paring of independence , stunting of British research and development capacity , and a strengthening of the anchor cables holding Britain in her position as an offshore island of the United States at a time when closer relations with Europe were becoming more compelling . |
| 24 | A pro-Nasserite revolution occurred in the Yemen in September 1962 , which was to lead to Egyptian-backed rebellions in the Aden Protectorates and later in Aden itself . |
| 25 | That is also why the weakening of links with banks and the pressure for higher dividends are unlikely to lead to a spate of hostile takeover bids in Japan . |
| 26 | He objected to the stress the virtuosi laid on observation and experiment , on the grounds that it was likely to lead to atheism . |
| 27 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 28 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 29 | If you are going to preach conversion — and I hope we shall in many different ways and , skilfully , with many different nuances — you can not avoid the consequences : it is going to lead to transformed lives . |
| 30 | The third criticism is that the medical basis of the Infanticide Act 1938 is now discredited : the reference to the effect of lactation is without foundation , and it is acknowledged that the social pressures consequent upon the arrival of a new child ( such as financial demands , unsuitable housing , effects on family relationships ) may be just as likely to lead to the mental disturbance manifest in these cases as any condition linked specifically with the event of giving birth . |