Example sentences of "can [adv] lead [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women , who apparently thrive on stress , display typically aggressive ‘ type A ’ behaviour , which often includes becoming ‘ hooked ’ on vigorous exercise , hormonal imbalance which can eventually lead to irregular periods and weight loss resulting in an early menopause , brittle bones , thinning and wrinkling of the skin , and falling hair . |
| 2 | The right way to indicate its nature is , therefore , to give instances where it is present , and to describe its interaction with other parts of the system to which it belongs , in particular when the interaction leads to predictions which can be checked ; simple as the system may be , we shall find that successive interactions can swiftly lead to structures of quite satisfying complexity ( see Appendix B ) . |
| 3 | True , it is an altruism grounded in selfishness , but that need not bother us ( it can only lead into the usual teenage casuistry about altruism always being ultimately selfish ) . |
| 4 | Taking various client groups into the bureaucracy is in itself no real way forward because in that context it can only lead to professional defensiveness of the worst kind . |
| 5 | As we saw , Kant showed that the two worlds fell under different laws ; and to mingle them together can only lead to meaningless nonsense . |
| 6 | This.vertical Phillips curve ( labelled LPC in Fig. 6.4 ) can be regarded as a warning to policy-makers that continued attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural level can only lead to higher and higher inflation rates and no long-run decrease in unemployment . |
| 7 | This can only lead to children growing up without knowing the difference between right and wrong — and ending up in court themselves . |
| 8 | Intervention in the market economy can only lead to harmful results , therefore , because it will disrupt the workings of the overall economic order . |
| 9 | It can only lead to the suspicion that there are dangerous men on both sides who believe violence is the only way forward . |
| 10 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 11 | Properly used , it seems to me that quantitative methods can only lead to advances in our subject . |
| 12 | If it is true that meaning reduces to use , then surely all mention of " identity " is inappropriate and can only lead to confusion . |
| 13 | This can only lead to a partial picture where lenders try to succeed within their own parameters , without all the facts on the likely borrower . |
| 14 | The arrangements proposed in Maastricht can only lead to the eventual fusion of the various pillars . |
| 15 | It is clear that if the theory advanced in these pages is correct then lessening of parental authority can only lead to increasing confrontation with the younger generation . |
| 16 | ‘ Halliwell said that these sexual experiments can only lead to a dead end . |
| 17 | ‘ Without the talks process , there is a vacuum in Northern Ireland politics that can only lead to more violence . ’ |
| 18 | The units studied are carefully structured so that individual work , pair work and group work can easily lead into , or be developed out of , whole class discussions . |
| 19 | A bad swing can easily lead to a serious ground loop or even to cart-wheeling and a broken glider . |
| 20 | This can easily lead to a straightforward identification of Germany with Europe . |
| 21 | This double area of control can easily lead to the blurring of the job surveyor 's responsibilities . |
| 22 | ‘ Difference ’ for the Piaroa always signifies a danger : it can easily lead to violence between individuals and therefore be a deterrent to the possibility of creating the sociality necessary for the creation of community . |
| 23 | This can easily lead to the impression that it is a scholarly work of only archival interest . |
| 24 | [ She goes on to note that ] … the needs of squeezing religions into manageable units can easily lead to unhelpful emphases on the superficial , the external and the exotic on the one hand , or the conservative , the established and the institutional in religious traditions on the other hand , at the expense of such less obvious and less accessible factors as the profound interiority of faith , the mundane ordinariness of discipleship , and the radical reforming zeal within traditions which challenges them to continually renew themselves . |
| 25 | Differences do not , as we have seen with Fig. 8.4 , necessarily mean conflict , but they can easily lead to this if a spirit of possessiveness is also present ( as discussed in Chapter 3 , p. 34 ) . |
| 26 | However , numerical experimentation has , of course , its own problems , lack of awareness of which can easily lead to spurious conclusions . |
| 27 | The unpredictability of death can easily lead to embarrassment for the firm , not least because of the fundamental obligation of the personal representatives of a deceased partner to realise the assets comprised in his estate at an early date : and one of these assets will be the deceased 's share in the surplus assets of the firm or ( where the agreement so provides ) the right to be paid out for the value of that share . |
| 28 | The arrival of a bailiff can easily lead to confrontation , and most people do n't know their rights . |
| 29 | That they can increase production in the short and medium run is beyond doubt , but unless employed in the full knowledge of land potential and soil life they can soon lead to diminishing returns . |
| 30 | Experience shows that insufficient involvement can soon lead to frustration and dissatisfaction which can only damage the firm ; and that applies as much to assistant solicitors and salaried partners as to equity partners . |