Example sentences of "[adv] leading to the " in BNC.

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1 The contest got under way — a series of knockout bouts inexorably leading to the final pair and , after seeing Richard — and Tom — win their opening bouts without much difficulty , she wandered away , suddenly keen to be on her own .
2 The European Community [ EC ] has embarked on a path inexorably leading to the eventual replacement of member countries ' currencies with a single European currency .
3 Conservative CIDs , for example , have all sorts of tricks to frustrate an incoming radical chief superintendent , by which they can legally send clear-up rates into a tailspin — so leading to the rapid transfer of the reforming senior officer .
4 Although many go unrecognized , stray finds are more commonly discovered than sites , and every one is potentially important , adding to archaeological evidence , and perhaps leading to the discovery of a new site .
5 Such a move would have been legitimate if it had offered the possibility of new kinds of experimental tests , perhaps leading to the discovery of some unexpected feature of the earth 's atmosphere .
6 Some of these are already leading to the introduction of modular courses in arts subjects , as well as cross-arts initiatives .
7 In some instances failure to observe sound practice leads to a lamb crop at weaning of around 50–60% , a level at which breeding replacements can not be obtained thus leading to the possibility of economic collapse .
8 Beirut was bombed and the Israelis invaded Lebanon , thus leading to the revised version , ‘ When one war shuts another one opens . ’
9 She liked putting things back in their exactly proper places , thus leading to the postponed satisfaction of finding them again , laying a hand on them without thought .
10 As early as 1968 the government recognized that the development of DGH treatment services was not leading to the replacement of asylums .
11 For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones .
12 Note Clock Tower and track to right leading to the Cricket Green , just beyond the block of shops .
13 This field component would connect gas in the plane to the hotter gas above and below and is likely both to generate instabilities and to bleed angular momentum from the disk , possibly leading to the formation of a jet .
14 The role of the Co-ordinator will be : to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the people involved in the Programme ; to encourage new contributions to it ; to develop a series of linking themes relevant to the components of the Programme , possibly leading to the creation of an integrated framework for the study of environmental issues in general ; and to co-ordinate publication of the results and ideas generated by the Programme .
15 The financial controller has a key role to play in facilitating this learning process by improving the way in which the cost-accounting system reveals what really are the cost-drivers ( i.e. the factors really leading to the incidence of specific types of costs ) .
16 A so called ‘ rationalisation ’ of the market is now leading to the price charged in Britain rising at over twice the rate of inflation towards what is charged in other countries .
17 A change in magma composition may occur during a single eruption as different parts of the magma chamber are tapped , but more significant compositional changes , often leading to the production of more acidic ejecta , may arise during the overall lifespan of a volcano as a result of chemical changes in the magma reservoir .
18 We may conclude then that ‘ de-industrialization ’ is meaningful as a simple description of a relentless process in which the manufacturing sector suffers declining shares of total employment , inevitably leading to the service sector capturing a greater share , but that the process takes on a different pace and complexion in different countries and places .
19 The year 1660 saw a major revolution in grave-clothes , indirectly leading to the firm establishment of undertaking as a distinct trade , the birth of a new industry and some additional work for the jobbing printer ; for in this year an Act came into force , which decreed that all persons had to be buried in shifts , shrouds and winding-sheets made of woollen material , rather than linen , and free from ‘ Flax , Hemp , Silk , Hair , Gold or Silver , or other than what is made of Sheeps Wooll only ’ .
20 What other chains of industries are there leading to the Heinz baked bean factory ?
21 One outcome was the intense exploitation of labour-forces , ultimately leading to the destruction of the resource on which they were dependent : labour power .
22 This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve .
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