Example sentences of "[vb mod] lead to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy of withholding funds for investment in the reconstruction of the Basque Country , Catalonia and Asturias was a deliberate , punitive gesture , as well as a precautionary measure , lest too rapid or too successful economic recovery should lead to agitation for the political autonomy to which they had aspired — and , in the case of the Basque Country and Catalonia , enjoyed — under the Republic . |
| 2 | The ‘ target ’ of the strike action was undoubtedly the railway undertaking but it was obviously a necessary consequence of the strike 's having any effect at all that it should lead to interference in the performance of contracts of carriage . |
| 3 | He also wrote of the superstition , the human passions and the religious representations that interfered with the observation and application of reason which should lead to knowledge . |
| 4 | Such expansion should lead to improvement of animal treatment through better controls . |
| 5 | The medical world looks for cures and , given a precise diagnosis , will set out a course of treatment which should lead to improvement in the patient 's condition . |
| 6 | Any regulation must lead to interference with individual rights . ’ |
| 7 | Below and beyond this zone behavioural responses must become the major controlling mechanism , but this becomes metabolically expensive , and must lead to exhaustion if it can not be made good by an increased intake of food and rest . |
| 8 | This overlap must lead to synergy not friction . |
| 9 | If externalism is a sound stance , then the argument from error is irrelevant ; for it does no more than elaborate on a defective ( though traditional ) approach to epistemology or if it does more , it succeeds only in showing how that defective approach must lead to scepticism . |
| 10 | Too heavy a reliance on a particular firm or industry might lead to lack of balance in research output — fundamental research without an immediate pay-off may be pushed out , and there is also a danger that commercial pressures may begin to dictate the courses on offer . |
| 11 | any possible specific solvent-polymer interactions which might lead to orientation of the solvent molecules in the vicinity of the polymer chain are neglected i.e. polar solutions may be inadequately catered for by this theory ; |
| 12 | What the defendants had done , was not to enhance the risk that the known factors would lead to blindness , but to add to the list of factors which might lead to blindness . |
| 13 | A parallel ‘ hard ’ rouble might lead to hyperinflation in old roubles — unless budgetary control were tight enough to make roubles ‘ real ’ money anyway . |
| 14 | Local law societies were generally against the establishment of an annual limit on the grounds that it might lead to unfairness in the handling of claims within any particular 12 month period . |
| 15 | Similarly , laws-of-war considerations might lead to advocacy of a very large nuclear armoury , on the grounds that only then can weapons be used discriminately — but this could only too easily be read as a threat by the adversary . |
| 16 | We treasure confirmation and we fear that any alteration in the pattern might lead to confirmation ceasing to be observed . |
| 17 | He was very concerned that the integration of the races might lead to violence and public disorder on a large scale . |
| 18 | Alternatively , this mutation might lead to production of a protein that is only partly functional and causes a milder disease . |
| 19 | Disclosure that a particular Committee had dealt with a matter might lead to argument about the status of the decision or demands that it should be endorsed by the whole Cabinet . |
| 20 | Apart from the fire risk involved , this could allow the spread of moist air to the rest of the house , and might lead to condensation problems . |
| 21 | In a bold demonstration of the federal authorities ' resolve to thwart any concrete Slovene actions which might lead to secession , late on Oct. 4 JNA military police occupied the Slovene territorial defence force headquarters in Ljubljana ( Slovenia 's capital ) . |
| 22 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 23 | Over a series of evenings at the end of March and the beginning of April , 13 chief examiners gave Associateship candidates invaluable advice on the techniques which could lead to success in the approaching examinations . |
| 24 | Leading members of the labour movement advocated both an eight-hour day , as a means of permanently increasing the regularly employed labour force ( a nine or ten hour day , six days a week being then normal ) , and public works , despite some fears that under private enterprise such sharing of work could lead to depression of wages . |
| 25 | Also , the tribunal referred in its reasons to the fact that the employee had convictions for similar offences in the past and the employer had given no warnings that repetition could lead to dismissal . |
| 26 | Climate change " could lead to starvation " |
| 27 | Hostel pupils felt ostracised by the locals ( including fellow pupils ) and were considered as expensive liabilities and potential trouble-makers. ( 8 ) Dislike of the hostel could lead to rejection of school . |
| 28 | They also fear it could lead to parking problems and more traffic . |
| 29 | They waited … waited before the edge that could lead to eternity . |
| 30 | The Banbury Baptist Church who invited Millard Fuller here … believes this seed planting mission could lead to Habitat for Humanity eventually setting up a nationwide centre based in the town . |