Example sentences of "[vb -s] lead [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brunt of the company 's restructuring , which has lead to 18,000 layoffs in two years ( a cut of close to 30% ) , says Mr De Benedetti , is now over and he expects Olivetti to return to profit in 1994 . |
| 2 | In recent years the rise in the crime rate has lead to increased concern on the part of both the police and the general public . |
| 3 | But such enthusiasm for working on as many projects as possible has lead to serious cautions from doctors for Merton . |
| 4 | The recent introduction of genetically engineered insulin has lead to some problems for diabetics who have changed from animal-derived insulin . |
| 5 | And the method they have adopted has proved to be the beginning of the slide that has lead to mass dispersals of the kind that happened at Brent . |
| 6 | The pattern of change has lead in recent years to the growth of large book retailing groups , some with a ready will to diversify into other product ranges . |
| 7 | The elevation of environmental concerns in the social consciousness has raised the profile of environmental protection and has led to international agreements specifically concerned with the environment , such as the Montreal protocol on the ozone layer . |
| 8 | Its use has led to real benefits for the group |
| 9 | Nonetheless , it is often the most deprived areas or people who are least able to help themselves , and in many rural areas the decline in rural transport and rural services outlined above has led to real rural deprivation . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the popularity of Yardie amongst jail birds has led to certain elements deciding that the book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking , and Victor Headley has disappeared into hiding to work on Yardie 2 , leaving Adebayo and Pope to speak on his behalf . |
| 11 | More competition on the roads and in the air has led to better services and more choice . |
| 12 | In the private sector a large number of estate agents , landlords , accommodation agencies and building societies have been found to operate discriminatory registers , refusing to let or sell or lend to black individuals and families , while direct and indirect discrimination in many local authority housing departments has led to black tenants being allocated inferior council housing ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention . |
| 14 | A research programme is better than a rival if it is more progressive , the progressive nature of a programme depending on its degree of coherence and the extent to which it has led to successful novel predictions , as discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 15 | A century of saving seed from the best plants has led to continuous improvements . |
| 16 | Much of this work on animals was done in Oxford and has led to radical improvements in the transplantation of kidney , liver , bone-marrow and hearts in human patients who would otherwise have died . |
| 17 | In BR , commercialism has led to radical organizational change . |
| 18 | PANAMA is the latest in a series of rogue regimes , the menacing state of whose internal affairs has led to armed intervention by other countries — and to an unresolved international tangle about the legality of such action . |
| 19 | Population pressure on land has led to increasing competition of less sensitive rotations which maximise the production of food crops with beneficial rotations which include nitrogen-fixing crops and forage crops . |
| 20 | The economic boom in the south east has led to increasing demands for new types of industrial site , and the growth in high tech and service industries has placed a premium on high quality sites in pleasant surroundings and with good communications . |
| 21 | This more frequent application , especially of a compound like malathion which has an unpleasant odour , has led to increasing refusals from householders and a consequent reduction in insecticide coverage . |
| 22 | The success of this fairly new treatment has led to increasing numbers of terminally ill patients being referred for consideration of transplantation , many of these being referred as a final option , when intensive support in hospital is required and when secondary end organ damage has often developed . |
| 23 | This in turn has led to increasing Government interference in matters relating to both the organisation and professional functions of medical groups . |
| 24 | As a result , market intelligence is limited , and has led to contradictory stances being adopted by different companies . |
| 25 | Quantal analysis of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus has proved difficult and has led to contradictory conclusions when applied to long-term potentiation . |
| 26 | The need to control costs and optimize on resources has led to centralized shared cataloguing , largely made possible through the adoption of standards such as the machine readable catalogue ( MARC ) record and the Anglo-American cataloguing rules . |
| 27 | The debate is important and has led to keen observations being made on both sides of the House . |
| 28 | However , it could have been Montana 's last appearance for the team he has led to four Super Bowl triumphs — unless Young is injured . |
| 29 | The theory of sexual selection has led to four common predictions about the relationship between breeding success and sexual dimorphism . |
| 30 | In recent years the study of megalithic remains such as Stonehenge in terms of hypothetical astronomical alignments has led to various interesting speculations concerning prehistoric man 's knowledge of the calendar . |