Example sentences of "have led to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern desire for open-plan has led to the removal of many bar-partitions , destroying the character of original interiors and distorting any attempt to create a truly ‘ Victorian ’ interior . |
| 2 | And it has led to the introduction of new technologies for the direct investigation of the relationships between brain , behaviour and external events , the subject of the present chapter . |
| 3 | This has led to the tying of aid to a large extent to inappropriate or unduly expensive goods from the donor 's country , to sharp annual variations in the volume of aid flows and to a lack of commitment to real coordination with other donors . |
| 4 | Criticism of aid from both left and right , particularly in recent years , has led to the establishment of evaluation units within most of the major donor agencies . |
| 5 | More problematic is the way in which such a dislocation has led to the acceptance of her ‘ Mexicanness ’ as mere decoration of the essentially feminist themes of her work , thereby defusing a substantial part of the art described by Breton as a ‘ ribbon round a bomb ’ . |
| 6 | ( Although the caste system in India has led to the attitude that it is more attractive to be light skinned than dark , this extreme fear of getting black does not exist in India or Pakistan . ) |
| 7 | ‘ Preoccupation with Cd values has led to the boring shapes we have become all too familiar with . ’ |
| 8 | The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe . |
| 9 | The logical re-use of existing services has led to the retention of the overly utilitarian postwar outshot when it would have been better to demolish it and to restore the four-square appearance of the pre-war building . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps those are sounds you could use in your own composition , ’ speculates the school 's head of music , Paul Chamberlain , whose quest for strange noises has led to the possibility of him poaching the National Curriculum 's science of sound course from Fartown 's physics department . |
| 11 | The disclosure has led to the closure of the nursery -but the stock could only be sold for £26,246 because most growers had made their seasonal purchases . |
| 12 | Another sign is the campaign against the fur trade launched by animal-rights activists , which has led to the bankruptcy of several furriers . |
| 13 | All this second-generation old school stuff is shite on wheels and has led to the emergence of the Old School Fool , a mug with a large disposable income who is prepared to cough up half a week 's wages for anything he perceives to be pre-Day-Glo sportswear . |
| 14 | This has led to the legitimate graphic device of breaking the further line as it passes behind the near line . |
| 15 | This schema has led to the collapse of the Swedish system , and would doubtless have the same sorry result in this country . |
| 16 | The latter has led to the development and promotion of improved systems of hill sheep production by the official advisory services . |
| 17 | The pressure of commercial competition for analytical business has led to the use of cheaper , less experienced staff . |
| 18 | This vast product-line combined with an ability to deliver quickly from stock has led to the supplying of thousands of satisfied professionals in research institutes , laboratories and chemical process industries worldwide . |
| 19 | The rational approach has led to the development of PPBS ( planning-programming-budgeting systems ) and ZBB ( zero-based budgeting ) systems . |
| 20 | We will establish a new independent transport safety inspectorate within the health and safety legislation to improve the safety environment which has led to the terrible tragedies of recent years . |
| 21 | Another route has led to the formation of bands of close relatives in which only a small number of adults breed and these are assisted by helpers that live communally with them in a group territory . |
| 22 | Thus non-agricultural activities should be considered alongside those which directly use land , and this is particularly important where there is widespread rural-urban migration with or without a remittance economy ( e.g. South Yemen where outmigration to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf has led to the abandonment of terracing ; the Rif in Morocco and Algeria ; the Nepalese hills ; Lesotho and other labour reserves of Southern Africa ; or the Andean highlands where many of the male population have migrated seasonally or permanently to the coastal cities ) . |
| 23 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 24 | Certainly there have been cases after Alladice , including the one in which these remarks were made , where infraction of the rules has led to the resultant evidence being declared inadmissible . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the high cost of this labour-intensive and time-consuming method has led to the wide use of volatile solvents such as petroleum ether , hexane and benzene as a means for capturing essences of certain flowers — yet the enfleurage process gives a higher yield . |
| 26 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 27 | Similar problems have occurred in the Al-Wafra region in the south of Kuwait , where desert encroachment has led to the abandonment of farms . |
| 28 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 29 | However , spatial query tools are intrinsically linked to the data model employed : hence the use of multiple spatial data structures has led to the proliferation of query processors . |
| 30 | Brown demonstrates the extent to which the growth of research activities in this field has led to the emergence of improved cluster analytic methods for the multidimensional classification of people according to the type of area in which they live . |