Example sentences of "[adv] lead to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khin Nyunt , first secretary of the SLORC and head of the powerful Directorate of Defence Services Intelligence , stated that a swift transfer of power would only lead to weak government . |
| 2 | His hands tightened when she tried to step back , and Claudia , refusing a struggle that could only lead to one thing , stood very still . |
| 3 | Compassion could only lead to increased confusion , for it would be wasted on her . |
| 4 | Baker was told that human rights were an internal matter ; Yang Shangkun , warning that pressure on this issue would only lead to increased tension , suggested " seeking common ground while reserving differences " to improve relations . |
| 5 | Taking various client groups into the bureaucracy is in itself no real way forward because in that context it can only lead to professional defensiveness of the worst kind . |
| 6 | ‘ It was felt that the Government 's proposals could only lead to inadequate funding which would inevitably force many practitioners to leave duty solicitor schemes and indeed the criminal practice permanently . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was felt that the Government 's proposals could only lead to inadequate funding which would inevitably force many practitioners to leave duty solicitor schemes and indeed the criminal practice permanently . ’ |
| 8 | It is clear that if the theory advanced in these pages is correct then lessening of parental authority can only lead to increasing confrontation with the younger generation . |
| 9 | And they assert that discounting will only lead to lower profits all round , a reduction in the number of titles on offer and an increase in market share by the larger chains at the expense of small booksellers . |
| 10 | This.vertical Phillips curve ( labelled LPC in Fig. 6.4 ) can be regarded as a warning to policy-makers that continued attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural level can only lead to higher and higher inflation rates and no long-run decrease in unemployment . |
| 11 | As we saw , Kant showed that the two worlds fell under different laws ; and to mingle them together can only lead to meaningless nonsense . |
| 12 | It will be difficult at first but going on would only lead to more sorrow . |
| 13 | ‘ Without the talks process , there is a vacuum in Northern Ireland politics that can only lead to more violence . ’ |
| 14 | Intervention in the market economy can only lead to harmful results , therefore , because it will disrupt the workings of the overall economic order . |
| 15 | However , we feel that such measures as those being mooted would only lead to further problems . |
| 16 | Speaking after a visit to Orkney this week , Harry Garland , BASW Scottish convener , said it ‘ would only lead to further distress for all concerned , and is not likely to lead to any clarification of the issues ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although the binding to GC-rich sites may be much stronger , this need not necessarily lead to efficient catalytic cleavage . |
| 19 | my Lord that that 's with respect right , erm certainly what , what he says that does n't necessarily lead to that conclusion all it does is have void what maybe authority between |
| 20 | In opposition to this , Kay and Silberston ( 1984 ) argue that competition would not necessarily lead to equal efficiency , since publicly owned concerns have the deep purse of public funds on which to draw . |
| 21 | The major capitalist countries , Lenin argued in his Imperialism ( 1916 ) , were economically interconnected , and a revolution in any one of them — most obviously in Russia , the ‘ weakest link ’ would necessarily lead to revolutionary changes in the others . |
| 22 | The trouble is , this does not necessarily lead to greater understanding of why something represents good practice . |
| 23 | Keeping staff to a minimum and paying them very little obviously reduces costs , but it does not necessarily lead to good quality care . |
| 24 | If so , many more Sri Lankans will die before the government learns that more killing does not necessarily lead to less . |
| 25 | Tables 14.6 and 14.7 suggest that increased capital intensity within the UK may not necessarily lead to proportionate increases in output . |
| 26 | Any such investigations as the respondent seeks could easily lead to such a conflict , and I would only support it if compelled to do so by clear authority . |
| 27 | But combinations of other controls which are viewed benignly may very easily lead to similar effects . |
| 28 | However , numerical experimentation has , of course , its own problems , lack of awareness of which can easily lead to spurious conclusions . |
| 29 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 30 | [ She goes on to note that ] … the needs of squeezing religions into manageable units can easily lead to unhelpful emphases on the superficial , the external and the exotic on the one hand , or the conservative , the established and the institutional in religious traditions on the other hand , at the expense of such less obvious and less accessible factors as the profound interiority of faith , the mundane ordinariness of discipleship , and the radical reforming zeal within traditions which challenges them to continually renew themselves . |