Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] lead [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HRH The Prince of Wales encapsulated this aspiration at the Action for Wales Conference in Cardiff in 1991 — ‘ I believe the need for thorough and thoughtful environment education is , perhaps , greater than ever because increased environmental awareness and concern are only slowly leading to more environmental action . |
| 2 | For example , checking the items in the wrong order is totally unacceptable because it can so easily lead to missing something out altogether . |
| 3 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |
| 4 | That Fiji won the main prize so easily led to something of an anti-climax , but that was hardly the fault of the organisers , though they were to blame for the scant and often inaccurate team information for public and press . |
| 5 | Subsequently Douglas has developed these ideas in a book which collects together much material in the urban environment from a physical geography point of view but perhaps also leads towards his view that ( Douglas , 1981 , p. 360 ) : |
| 6 | On the other hand , if the initial state of the universe had to be chosen extremely carefully to lead to something like what we see around us , the universe would be unlikely to contain any region in which life would appear . |
| 7 | Whilst it might cause some obvious short-term distress to tell the older people that they have unrealistic expectations of their children , to fail to do so inevitably leads to more unhappiness in the longer term . |
| 8 | As such it could be seen as an alternative to armed conflict , an alternative to blind acceptance of an unsatisfactory and perhaps explosive status quo in the control of disputed territory , and even as an alternative to democratic political methods of dispute resolution which can so often lead to legitimately and dangerously dissatisfied minorities . |
| 9 | Whatever the reason , repeated tests have shown that the inclusion of sufficient dietary fibre in meals prevents the excessive output of insulin which so often leads to hunger and snack-eating on diets in which the carbohydrates are processed and refined . |
| 10 | ‘ One thing so often leads to another . |
| 11 | It is extremely well led by Clive Priestley as chairman and Tim Mason as director . |
| 12 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 13 | ‘ This door down here leads into the dock . ’ |
| 14 | The transformations effected by the second Vatican Council of 1962–5 in liturgy , sacrament , scripture , and so on led to the accelerated decline of traditional rituals such as wakes and pilgrimages to local shrines . |
| 15 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 16 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 17 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 18 | The belated realization that these things are no longer so leads to the embittered and baffled reaction that they ought to be so . |
| 19 | A Halifax spokesman stressed the £20m provision on loans to the Kentish development Burrell 's Wharf was highly prudent and would not necessarily lead to a loss of the same magnitude . |
| 20 | Saturday 's name change was the sixth this century , and the previous alterations did not necessarily lead to a radical renewal . |
| 21 | He reaffirmed the belief he held then , that the use of soft drugs did not necessarily lead to a progression to hard drugs , although he conceded that he would never have encountered any other drug if he had not become involved with smoking marijuana . |
| 22 | The results of delegation of power from LEA to schools need not necessarily lead to the sorts of negative effects for teachers outlined above . |
| 23 | The trouble is , this does not necessarily lead to greater understanding of why something represents good practice . |
| 24 | I does not necessarily lead to an increase in the price of consumer goods . |
| 25 | It is argued that this difference may be partially accounted for by the higher standard of living in Sri Lanka , but also that the motives and social composition of offenders in normal times were such that depressed economic conditions did not necessarily lead to substantial increases in criminal activities . |
| 26 | The transformation of the problematic does not necessarily lead to a transformation of the form of validity of knowledge . |
| 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 | It has been rightly pointed out that a quick ball from such a scrum does not necessarily lead to a running game and that the centre of the field , already bustling with activity due to the increased fitness and range of the modern player , would be clogged up with roaming loose forwards relieved of scrummage duties . |
| 29 | Black pupils need to achieve academically in order to enter the labour market even at the lowest level in spite of evidence that qualifications do not necessarily lead to jobs ( see Brennan and McGeevor , 1987 , for example ) . |
| 30 | To abandon ‘ news values ’ as the sole criteria of the media would not necessarily lead to a dereliction of duty . |