Example sentences of "[modal v] lead to the " in BNC.

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1 The resulting datasets are amenable to a wide variety of transformations which , in combination with much improved display facilities , should lead to the recognition of additional and subtle features .
2 Secondly , a research programme should lead to the discovery of novel phenomena at least occasionally .
3 In addition , a progressive increase in the size of the waves should lead to the movement seawards of the bar , while a diminution should lead to a landward movement , both being caused fundamentally by the movement of the break point .
4 Down , anywhere on Plenty , must lead to the docks .
5 The brave new world of object-oriented programming must lead to the large-scale buying and selling of objects , and Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunPro software development business has entered a technology development and licensing agreement with Rogue Wave Software Inc , Vancouver , British Columbia supplier of C++ class libraries .
6 ‘ A11 these passages must lead to the same place . ’
7 If it has , the second question is whether the irregularity must lead to the committal order being set aside and the release of the contemnor .
8 ‘ This must lead to the basement . ’
9 In the end the Formalist/Prague School principle of defamiliarization must lead to the conclusion that modernist literature , with its greater element of innovation , is more ‘ poetic ’ than most literature of preceding periods — a conclusion explicitly stated , for instance , in a modern French version of Formalist analysis , jean Cohen 's Structure du langage poétique .
10 The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it .
11 A glance at a short section of a DXF file , see Fig. 2 , might lead to the conclusion that whoever designed the format either had shares in a paper manufacturing company , or a grudge against rain forests .
12 The weather forecast was not too bad , either , except that the heavy recent downpours might lead to the cracking of some water , or even gas , mains .
13 Some Turks , nervous about Scud missiles and chemical warheads , suspect one thing might lead to the other .
14 Advances in medical knowledge might lead to the conclusion that some are simply too dangerous : there has long been a debate about the status of boxing , with increasing knowledge of the risks of brain damage to boxers .
15 By tacit consent both sisters behaved as if this were just like any ordinary Christmas , and they avoided discussions which might lead to the subject that was naturally uppermost in their minds .
16 These types of problem extend even to the more commonplace types of metalwork in which the lack of replication might lead to the suggestion that everyday items were produced locally as required ; but were such technical skills possessed by someone on every farm or hamlet , at only a few locations , or was the craftsman a mobile specialist ?
17 The absence of brooches , or other dress-fasteners , in many female graves , might lead to the conclusion that they were not necessary items , or that organic materials may have been commonly used .
18 However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation .
19 The question was whether supporting the teacher on this basis might lead to the required change in his attitude , help him to see the situation in a new light , and thus affect his perception of the problem .
20 Writing off the gaps on the map will not involve evictions on the scale of Poletown , but then nothing is coming to take the place of the bulldozed blocks ; and sealing one neighbourhood 's coffin might lead to the decline of the other neighbourhoods around it .
21 Her response was to revive the tactics of earlier campaigns with chevauchées which might lead to the capture of strongpoints in northern France and put pressure on Paris itself .
22 Activities that might lead to the objective of promotion to head of a department might be , ‘ enrol on a management course ’ , ‘ achieve at least four research publications within the next two years ’ , ‘ join two committees and get involved with service planning ’ .
23 Viscount Dilhorne similarly held that if the requested court was not satisfied that evidence was required , direct evidence for use at a trial as contrasted with information which might lead to the discovery of evidence , it had no power to assist .
24 Although presented mainly as a measure of penal reform that was desirable for its own sake , officials were more sanguine that parole might lead to the hoped for reduction in the prison population than the dubious promise of the suspended sentence .
25 Re was at first pleased but soon realised that Hathor 's delight in killing might lead to the destruction of all mankind , which he had not intended .
26 Further experimentation might lead to the identification of other difficulty factors which could be incorporated into criterion statements .
27 Increased versatility of learning would confer great selective advantage and is just the kind of change that might lead to the very rapid evolution of neocortex , so we can add this to global connectivity and greater genetic control as possible causes of the neopallial explosion .
28 " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . "
29 He was soon associated with a group around Sir John Vaughan [ q.v. ] , also including Sir Thomas Littleton and Sir Richard Temple [ q.v. ] , who frequently voiced concern during the 1660s that the restored government 's need to secure itself in power , coupled with Parliament 's Royalist enthusiasm , might lead to the erosion of England 's laws and liberties .
30 The analysis might lead to the conclusion that the council was in the wrong ; this reasoning process must however be explored not presumed .
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