Example sentences of "have lead [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he 's served two jail sentences . |
| 2 | indeed , the fourth Directive of the European Commission , which requires a unified reporting system , has lead to consolidation of the position of English as the dominant language of company reports across European multinationals . |
| 3 | Well , it 's because protectionism has meant , has led to self sufficiency in the main , er , in the main consuming countries . |
| 4 | The collapse of socialist governments in the USSR and GDR has led to withdrawal of their technical support . |
| 5 | This compares with around three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 and has led to criticism of the £15 million advertising campaign . |
| 6 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 7 | This has led to competition among existing havens to attract a larger share of the market , and to a steady influx of new locations offering investors an attractive environment . |
| 8 | The killing of 582 Risso dolphins on a remote beach in southern Japan has led to outrage amongst international wildlife groups . |
| 9 | This initiative is perhaps most needed in those very small congregations where there are few musical resources , and where the inability to maintain the ‘ traditional ’ style of music has led to near-despair . |
| 10 | He does , however , acknowledge that though " Conservative rhetoric is fundamentally consumerist rather than democratic , it has served to put the issue of school-parent relations near the centre of educational debate and has led to legislation which increases parental involvement " ( Jones 1989:120 ) . |
| 11 | Alienation within the present system has led to activity outwith the political system and to the creation of social movements through the need to publicise grievances and uncertainties about everyday life and to urge the necessity of democratising life in these areas . |
| 12 | A prolonged period of low rainfall has led to drought conditions in much of the south and east of the UK , with the problem compounded by increasing abstraction from rivers and groundwater for domestic and industrial uses [ see ED no. 57 ] . |
| 13 | Her remarkable eye for talent has led to star-spotting in some very unusual places . |
| 14 | A predictable public furore on the other side of the Atlantic has led to court cases and an inevitable sales boom . |
| 15 | RECESSION has led to misery for millions but none more so than workers made Redundant and those whose homes have been Repossessed . |
| 16 | The absence of deals has led to speculation that advertisers , wary of getting caught in a US-Japan economic crossfire , are ‘ frightened ’ of Yamaguchi because of her Japanese name and heritage . |
| 17 | A concentration of so-called noxious and offensive trades in West Ham has led to speculation that industrialisation was promoted by weak legislative control . |
| 18 | A case report on magnetic resonance imaging of the brain of a patient with Munchausen 's syndrome has led to speculation that the syndrome may be a ‘ pure organic disorder . ’ |
| 19 | This has been confirmed by direct measurement of ascitic plasminogen activating activity and has led to speculation that an infusion of plasminogen activators could stimulate a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis . |
| 20 | A road being cut through a designated national park by the Brazilian army has led to speculation that the government may be intent on prospecting the mineral-rich rainforest lands of Brazil 's northern borders , currently inhabited by the Yanomami , the largest isolated group of Indians in Brazil . |
| 21 | The Conservatives ' bonfire of planning controls has led to ill-thought out development , often against the wishes of local people . |
| 22 | The way the book is constructed has led to repetition , confusing sub-headings , a badly laid out text , and a notable absence of geographical or chronological structure . |
| 23 | That court has , on more than one occasion , held that a decision of the English courts has violated a litigant 's rights under article 10 and this on occasion has led to Parliament having to change the substantive law . |
| 24 | Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels . |
| 25 | The full implication of this approach will be discussed below but in the education system this has led to leadership being confused with technical competence ( the headteacher as leading professional ) or with implementation ( the headteacher as administrator ) . |
| 26 | There is also the possibility that tricyclics may add to the risk of cardiac arrhythmia and severe hypotension , especially in those in whom purging and vomiting has led to dehydration and cardiac dysfunction . |
| 27 | Although the Crown Prosecution Service and Attorney General 's office were adopting the usual caution of lawyers yesterday , there can be no doubt that TODAY 's demand for the Courtney sentence to be re-examined has led to action . |
| 28 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 29 | Misunderstanding and ignorance as to the nature of PR has led to confusion about its role . |
| 30 | When boozing has led to brawling , some hellraising stars , like Willis , have gone on the wagon . |