Example sentences of "[adv] lead to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 2 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 3 | On the other hand , his determination to win became such that he frequently appeared to condone his fast men bowling in an intimidating fashion , which obviously led to criticism from press and public . |
| 4 | The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth . |
| 5 | Once such an island has become permanent , longshore drift takes place along the seaward side , and so leads to modification and complication of the initially simple form . |
| 6 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 7 | This merely leads to confrontation and transforms the negotiation into a contest . |
| 8 | This ruling caste has come to rely on Italy 's huge public sector as a patronage machine for rewarding friends and supporters , a system that not only leads to corruption but also acts as a break on much needed free market reforms . |
| 9 | Somewhere deep in Robbie 's rapidly fading consciousness a little warning voice admonished her not to let this happen , that it would only lead to heartache . |
| 10 | They will only lead to frustration . |
| 11 | It i my Lord Mayor , it is indeed colossal cheek and pure hypocrisy on the part of the Tory Group , and particularly on the part of Councillor , to be putting forward the resolution congratulating schools on their success in responding to the introduction of Local Management , when they and the Government , between them impose such conditions that could only lead to chaos and disorder . |
| 12 | Ride along with it as philosophically as you can , and try not to take your own hurt feelings or sense of irritation out on your mother-in-law , as this will only lead to unhappiness for you all . |
| 13 | They must n't go down this road again , it could only lead to disaster . |
| 14 | In other words , Bukharin completely forgot that the extended reproduction … must not only lead to growth of c and v but also to that of α , i.e. to the growth of the individual consumption of the capitalists . |
| 15 | If it is true that meaning reduces to use , then surely all mention of " identity " is inappropriate and can only lead to confusion . |
| 16 | Others insisted that the so-called toleration of new moralists would merely lead to licentiousness and hinder women 's real sexual freedom . |
| 17 | Individual authors could write on the decline of national intelligence but public debate did not necessarily lead to action . |
| 18 | Prejudice , ignorance , frustration and fear together lead to hatred . |
| 19 | There is no doubt that such weaknesses impede proper continuity and progression and so lead to underachievement . |
| 20 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 21 | His exceptional progress soon led to exhibition matches and tours of western Europe , and on to America , where his family settled in 1920 . |
| 22 | Blind faith in training for training 's sake soon leads to disillusionment and frustration . |
| 23 | An irreducible hernia may strangulate , i.e. the contents of the sac of the hernia may be constricted so that the circulation is cut off thus leading to gangrene and eventually perforation of the bowel ( a surgical emergency ) . |
| 24 | Overconstrained designs tend to become a compromise between these well defined parameters , which generally leads to low-risk , slow product development . |
| 25 | It could only too easily lead to acquiescence in the evil done by the powers of this world . |
| 26 | If such mutations should occur in the CAG cluster of the N-Oct 3 gene it might easily lead to loss of function by aberrantly expanding the bona fide transcription activation domain , or to loss of DNA-binding if a frame shift is introduced . |
| 27 | The unpredictability of death can easily lead to embarrassment for the firm , not least because of the fundamental obligation of the personal representatives of a deceased partner to realise the assets comprised in his estate at an early date : and one of these assets will be the deceased 's share in the surplus assets of the firm or ( where the agreement so provides ) the right to be paid out for the value of that share . |
| 28 | The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation , and most people do n't know their rights . |
| 29 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 30 | The trading employees in India were not paid salaries in the modern sense of income they could live on ; they got small retainers , starting at perhaps £5 a year , and it was taken for granted that they would supplement their retainers by trading , sometimes acting as agents buying the goods that would eventually be exported by the Company ( though this could easily lead to fraud ) , but more often dealing for their own account . |