Example sentences of "it [modal v] lead [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Trace the answer to that and it may lead into much deeper waters .
2 If he was involved in competitive sports before , aiming from the start at tournaments and championships places a lot of pressure on the patient , and it may lead to bitter frustration when he can not reach his previous standards as quickly as he might hope .
3 It may lead to a gap between the values of those most closely tied to the institutions of the labour movement and the unwaged .
4 It may lead to vomiting or haemorrhage .
5 it may lead to new techniques for the prospecting of minerals .
6 It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved .
7 In which case , it may lead to a dis engagement from learning .
8 It emerges from the above discussion that man-machine allocation of function is at best an oversimplification and it may lead to the neglect of some key features of human performance .
9 If this trend is allowed to continue unchecked it may lead to more solicitors finding criminal defences unprofitable and yet another field of work will be lost to the solicitors ' branch of the profession generally .
10 In others it may lead to depression .
11 Once the day care centre is no longer suitable we may introduce the sitter service ; link in with the local day hospital or it may lead to long term care .
12 It may lead to lack of motivation .
13 It may also waste time and energy ; it may be unproductive ; it may lead to hostility and to low morale .
14 It may lead to the complete disappearance of a consonant , as in castle or a partial transformation as in irresistible , originally in-resistible .
15 This may simply mean a better understanding of historical sites , including those abroad in this age of mass foreign travel ; it may lead to active participation of an archaeological nature ; it may mean a better guide by which to judge or understand the paperback or so-called " historical novel " or the historical play on television .
16 Although the regulatory rules are subject to judicial review and the control of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and , in the case of SROs , the SIB , this might not be adequate ; ( 2 ) It may lead to an uneven playing field by virtue of differences in the treatment of different authorised persons .
17 But in any case , her prominence in the preparations for the 5 October march , and her leading part in it , did not mean that she intended that it should lead to a violent outcome , and the mere fact of her CPNI membership can not be taken as evidence for the existence of a violent conspiracy .
18 It should lead to a greater efficiency among the police and give a much-needed boost to the fight against crime .
19 It should lead to more understanding of language diversity , including multilingualism , and be closely related to pupils ' experience in their own communities , and therefore be treated with great sensitivity to pupils ' home backgrounds .
20 It should lead to a reduction in the food costs themselves .
21 ‘ It is important to recall all this to memory , but above all , it should lead to a commitment to the continuing struggle for justice and for life .
22 ‘ It is important to recall all this to memory , but above all , it should lead to a commitment to the continuing struggle for justice and for life .
23 The ‘ target ’ of the strike action was undoubtedly the railway undertaking but it was obviously a necessary consequence of the strike 's having any effect at all that it should lead to interference in the performance of contracts of carriage .
24 If this process went on unchecked it should lead to an increasing ripple height , but , as the ripple crests rise , they increasingly interfere with the wind , so that the sand grains on the crests are blown over into the troughs .
25 There are obvious advantages of the information which could include better costing , better cash flow , improved customer relations , and it should lead to better decisions being made by management , but it is difficult to put a monetary value on all this .
26 The second factor is important because it should lead to improved productivity of application developers , as it is no longer necessary for them to know diverse languages , environments and command sequences .
27 An important consequence of this is that it should lead to a great improvement in the quality of instructions and warnings produced by manufacturers attached to their products ( see Vacwell Engineering Co Ltd v BDH Chemicals Ltd [ 1971 ] 1 QB 88 ) .
28 ‘ And it might lead to an investigation of my own background . ’
29 The trouble with this , of course , was that it might lead to another doctor , one more competent than Donald , examining their evening meal .
30 And — one never knows — it might lead to something better . ’
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