Example sentences of "do lead to the " in BNC.
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1 | Mink keeping in the past did lead to the temporary establishment of wild mink — the escape occurred at Womdale , in Shetland when the winds blew a hut through the farmer 's perimeter fence , liberating a number of unmated female mink . |
2 | The latter did lead to the establishment of classes for deaf children , but because the provision of this education was not compulsory , many local school boards evaded their responsibilities and pleaded poverty . |
3 | It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world . |
4 | But his immediate successors , following his death in 1849 , made less impression , though the growing French influence in the country did lead to the granting of the concession in 1856 to Ferdinand de Lesseps to build the Suez Canal . |
5 | However , while the fact that it does lead to the possibility of new tests makes an hypothesis worthy of investigation , it will not rank as an improvement on the problematic theory it is designed to replace until it has survived at least some of those tests . |