Example sentences of "[verb] lead to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of developing countries , different dates of origin may in themselves be expected to lead to quite different features in their industrial relations despite the attainment of a similar stage of economic development . |
| 2 | The fact that Smith was utterly and proudly northern and that The Fall has always encapsulated a northern way of life has lead to heavily denied speculation that The Smiths took their name from young Mark . |
| 3 | This has led to particularly large reductions in the ‘ over-allocations ’ to the four Thames RHAs , at a time when London was undergoing further population loss . |
| 4 | And in recent history the existence of prejudice has led to both large-scale violence and genocide , as the Holocaust so dreadfully illustrates . |
| 5 | One key element in higher productivity is the very high rates of investment in manufacturing industry which has led to both quantitative and qualitative improvements in productive equipment . |
| 6 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 7 | Consumerism has led to high expectations and increased litigation , which in turn has led to increasingly expensive professional indemnity insurance . |
| 8 | In my view the competition between ACCA , CIMA and ICAEW has led to much better accounting examination systems . |
| 9 | For several decades , however , there has been a great deal of controversy among Marxist scholars about the theory of modes of production , the base/superstructure model , and the relation between the structural characteristics ( including contradictions ) of a particular form of society and the conscious actions of social classes and other groups , which has led to quite extensive revisions of Marxist theory , and in some cases to a critical reassessment of fundamental concepts in the theory ( Bottomore , 1992b ) . |
| 10 | Outmigration has led to severely unbalanced social structures in many areas , with an ageing and less productive population . |
| 11 | Recognition by creditor institutions and governments of the impracticability of Africa servicing its accumulated debt has led to very significant rescheduling arrangements since 1985 . |
| 12 | Abolition of the rule preventing practice under limited liability has led to very considerable growth in this form of organisation and , by 1988 , the proportion of practices which had formed limited liability companies had grown to 7.5 per cent of the total . |
| 13 | BENEATH the hype , Mickey Mouse , the Magic Kingdom and the publicity that has led to more than 100,000 people already enquiring about Eurodisney shares in the UK alone , there remains a disconcerting truth about this international share offer . |
| 14 | The increased speed of the modern game and the athleticism of the participants has led to more crowded play so that linesmen are apt to flag when a forward suddenly breaks clear to receive a pass . |
| 15 | POLICE chiefs are worried that the brutal murder of Paul Sheldon has led to more young people going into Edinburgh city centre armed with knives . |
| 16 | An example of this is in Java , Indonesia , where hillside farming has led to so much soil erosion that a 4 per cent gain in output thanks to fertilisers and seed improvements is effectively cancelled out . |
| 17 | Likewise the same range of factors as for industry generally has led to correspondingly poor performance in international terms . |
| 18 | Then , in the 1980s , overseas financial groups have had large British insurance companies within their sights , which has led to aggressively fought takeovers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I stopped occasionally to photograph a design branded upon a distant hillside made up of countless squat semi-circular walls protecting a meagre crop ; or limp onion plants resemblant of hieroglyphs upon a furrowed wall ; or a track which seemed to lead to only more emptiness ’ |
| 21 | The public expenditure cuts forced on the government in 1947 and the false sense of security that enough had been done led to less vigorous reinforcement of regional policy programmes . |
| 22 | She suggests that the faulty research approach tends to lead to similarly faulty interventionist initiatives . |
| 23 | This tends to lead to extremely lengthy and detailed questionnaires being sent by the offeror to the target company and at regular intervals to learn any relevant information . |
| 24 | The Keynesian and monetarist views seem to lead to very different conclusions as far as monetary policy is concerned . |
| 25 | The Minister of State for Social Security , in outlining his calculations , demonstrated that increases of £5 and £8 in the pensions would have lead to only 100,000 ceasing entirely to draw means-tested assistance ( letter from John Major , MP , to the author , 7 October 1986 ) . |
| 26 | All schools identified a change in their methods of identifying needs prior to spending leading to more effective use of available resources . |
| 27 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 28 | Games show the cumulative importance of individual human decisions on events , and demonstrate that different decisions at particular points could have led to very different outcomes . |
| 29 | The blanket ban on the publishers not only would have led to virtually nothing being bought for the borough 's libraries , but it would have denied the borough those titles which do serve the fight against racism . |
| 30 | Though technological change does tend to lead to more capital intensive than labour intensive development , there can be substantial employment created indirectly through backward and forward linkages . |