Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [adj] problems " in BNC.

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1 I shall return to such problems later .
2 Some 40 senior government officials from 10 separate departments held a joint seminar in mid-December to discuss ways in which the government as a whole could respond to environmental problems .
3 That is , they should relate to observable problems of behaviour .
4 Are there arrangements for providing students with support with regard to personal problems ?
5 Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine .
6 They are right to do so , because it can lead to serious problems if it persists .
7 Such additions to the software , which are necessarily written in machine code , are very effective but their production is fairly complex and time-consuming and can also lead to serious problems if transfer to a different machine is attempted .
8 Probably the first piece of advice that could be given to any new practitioner is that whilst a friend may be a client , a client should never become a friend , for an easy transition from a client to a friend can often lead to serious problems and difficulties .
9 Make sure it is n't hooded ( top ) or taken too much inside ( above ) , as this will lead to major problems .
10 ‘ Until this issue is resolved … at the individual level there is concern that charges could be used to limit demand for services and may lead to major problems of access to services between authorities , with health authorities perhaps having to provide services in inappropriate settings … ’
11 Unattainable standards , even though not appealed by a discharger , may still lead to practical problems of enforcement , since a continued failure to comply because of inefficient treatment plant or other ‘ good ’ reason which enforcement agents tolerate may suggest condonation by the agency of the continual breach of consent .
12 The strain and tension created by constant difficulties can lead to other problems and it can be hard to sort out which came first ; it is all too easy to blame the surface symptoms of child neglect or indebtedness on irresponsible parenthood rather than on an unjust social system .
13 Hence although a larger corpus will alleviate the problem of insufficient data it will not cure it and can lead to other problems .
14 The report , produced by a working party drawn from all sectors of the tourist industry , predicted that " tourist blight " would lead to environmental problems .
15 The report cites various cases by which over-emphasis on free trade can lead to environmental problems , including the recent controversy over the US import ban on Mexican tuna [ see ED no. 55 ] .
16 Though most women take some sort of weird maternal joy in this , being a single parent or the main money-earner in the family can lead to financial problems when she has to stop work .
17 This can lead to occasional problems over who has priority .
18 This can lead to clinical problems including the deformation of the bonded cusps of teeth ( Fig. 2 ) or to interfacial debonding and the production of microscopic gaps between restorative material and natural tooth tissue , and thus the development of dental monomers with zero polymerisation contraction would represent a significant advance .
19 ‘ It is feared that such dumping will lead to considerable problems with pollution , disease , vermin , noise levels and methane gas , and will threaten the safety and well-being of the community .
20 However , we feel that such measures as those being mooted would only lead to further problems .
21 Lank or naturally oily hair is often difficult to care for — whilst it needs thorough cleansing , overdoing it can lead to more problems .
22 Providing collection bins might appear an easy step but this could lead to more problems than it solves !
23 Although it could have been a genuine geographical variation , the fear was that staff were failing to record them because they thought this might lead to unresolvable problems which would jeopardise planning .
24 ‘ The problem is that once you make a mistake in deciding the child needs testing it can set up a chain of events that can lead to severe problems for the child , ’ he says .
25 Failure to reach a settlement would lead to enormous problems for European agriculture as protectionism spreads .
26 Sectoral policy can also lead to unexpected problems as protected national entities themselves attempt to compete in international markets .
27 We can point to central problems of values , structure , and behavior .
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