Example sentences of "lead to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 2 | Few contemporaries would have expected Balfour 's retirement to lead to a Unionist recovery . |
| 3 | Those who expected the election to lead to a radical change in domestic policy certainly found the first two years of the Kennedy era disappointing . |
| 4 | The response of airports and airlines to the Channel Tunnel has been coloured by the impending deregulation of air transport in Europe which is expected to lead to a substantial fall in fares and a rise in business over the next few years . |
| 5 | Beneath the outward appearance of self-assurance and scholarly success , deep-seated psychological tensions were being set up in Nizan 's personality , tensions exacerbated by changes in Nizan 's family and educational situation , tensions that were to lead to a personal crisis . |
| 6 | One intent of the review , says Nancy Maynard , an assistant director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy , is to eliminate duplication but it is not likely to lead to a wholesale restructuring of agency missions . |
| 7 | It was a prosperous community : going to America was a big step to take , and one that would not be taken by people with prospects at the top of English society unless they were going out to fill a government post , but for anyone else it was likely to lead to a higher standard of living than could reasonably be expected in Britain . |
| 8 | These raised marine deposits focus attention on the problems that might occur if climatic change were to lead to a global rise in sea level . |
| 9 | This meeting and a subsequent schedule of talks at the ministerial level are intended to lead to a global convention on climate change by 1995 . |
| 10 | Discussions with ( Educational Advisor ) are expected to lead to a new support network for LCCIEB centres . |
| 11 | The assumption that criticism has to lead to a negative evaluation is particularly unfortunate in higher education . |
| 12 | On a task requiring the subject to detect and respond to a small gap in one of the sides of a square Kinsbourne ( 1973 ) found concurrent verbalisation to lead to a right hemifield superiority and humming to lead-to a bias in detecting gaps in the left visual hemifield . |
| 13 | Nothing could be vaguer or more likely to lead to a greater increase in the powers and competences of the Community than wording of this kind . |
| 14 | The nature of the organisation and the staff it employs tends to lead to a greater commitment to any investigation and subsequent changes , particularly if it is felt that they could eventually benefit the residents . |
| 15 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 16 | This , in turn , was intended to lead to a comparative discussion of narrative structure through a contrastive analysis of this text with some 'social stories ' told in everyday conversations . |
| 17 | Our concern is that the availability of data from the new census , together with the increase in access to computers since the last census , is likely to lead to a veritable orgy of statistical analysis , and , if the past is a reliable guide to the future , this analysis will obscure rather than illuminate fundamental issues in resource allocation . |
| 18 | The situation that produced it was comparable to that which was to lead to a similar agreement between the returning Dutch and those who had proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia : in both cases neither side was prepared , there and then , for all-out war when the last British forces left Indonesia or when the Chinese armies in Tonkin were finally persuaded to leave . |
| 19 | The three abortion cases , which may be reached in December , are unlikely to lead to a clean reversal of Roe v Wade , the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which granted an absolute right to abortion in the first three months of pregnancy and an almost unrestricted right in the next three . |
| 20 | In one sense a later decision is more convenient , because it allows all useful information to be collated , and is more likely to lead to a considered expenditure of funds . |
| 21 | Recent evidence suggests however , that the introduction of modern technology does not necessarily have to lead to a continuing decline in the agricultural labour force . |
| 22 | Other pupils can take the matter further , and with a quite simple automatic camera create perfectly acceptable photographs , perhaps in colour slide form to lead to a tape-slide sequence . |
| 23 | The conditions laid down were therefore designed to differentiate the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition , and to make it clear that the National Government was not intended , as the Lloyd George coalition had been , to lead to a permanent realignment of the party system . |
| 24 | Refusal to change your outward ‘ device ’ is likely to lead to a permanent rest . |
| 25 | This may be expected to lead to a purposeful action , purposeful inaction or indifference . |
| 26 | Given that the firm will not undertake work in this area that is likely to lead to a contested bid , the majority of such ‘ friendly ’ transactions will involve the seeking of irrevocable undertakings from directors ( who would normally be recommending the offer ) and possibly from other shareholders . |
| 27 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 28 | If we understand the cold war as imaginary war , a situation in which the Fordist variant of capitalism needed the stalinist variant of socialism , in which the two systems were propped up by a never-ending pretend confrontation , then the collapse of communism was bound to lead to a dramatic reaction in the West . |
| 29 | Hopes that this would to lead to a significant drop in drug trafficking was offset by speculation that the rival Cali cartel , whose drug operations were more sophisticated and less reliant on intimidation and violence , would now step in and increase cocaine production . |
| 30 | The latter in particular is expected to lead to a significant cut in overall emissions of halons , which are less common than CFCs but more damaging to the ozone layer . |