Example sentences of "would lead to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues believed Cleveland would lead to the issue being ‘ swept under the carpet ’ . |
| 2 | The reorganization was recommended by an engineer in the pages of a leading Petrograd journal , since he thought it would lead to the dissemination of experts . |
| 3 | Convinced that the danger of the end of Christian society was at hand and that this would lead to the collapse of civilization , Eliot viewed London more in terms that contemporary Christians used to view Africa . |
| 4 | Former Attorney General Lord Rawlinson said the reforms would lead to the destruction of the independent bar . |
| 5 | Open access would lead to the demise of such long-term contracts . |
| 6 | People could not persuade voters that some policies were better than others , for this would lead to the creation of parties , representative bodies whose purpose is to dominate those who are not members . |
| 7 | Police now considered the case a murder inquiry and were appealing for any information that would lead to the killer . |
| 8 | Mr Major led a concerted attempt to win back Liberal Democrat waverers by warning that proportional representation — a key Liberal Democrat demand for their support in a hung parliament — would lead to the ‘ nightmare of perpetually weak Government ’ . |
| 9 | Like the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa in 1805 , and the Paiute Ghost Dance shaman Wovoka in 1890 , Smohalla predicted that a return to traditional life among the Indians would lead to the demise of the white men . |
| 10 | This route would lead to the Porta Ticinese in Piazza XXIV Maggio , the Square of 24 May , but deflect at Corso Italia , and follow that road back into the city to visit the twin churches of San Celso and Santa Maria dei Miracoli . |
| 11 | ( Kautsky warned them that capitalism now required large international markets with a single language which , in the Habsburg domains , would best be German ; retaining Czech would lead to the economic decline of the Czech people . ) |
| 12 | Living in the troubled times of the late fourth and early fifth centuries , St Augustine regarded the Christian era as the age of senility and decay that would lead to the seventh age when time would end , although he was careful not to forecast a definite date for this . |
| 13 | The growth of any general practice whereby decisions of the Cabinet or of Cabinet committee were announced as such would lead to the embarrassing result that some decisions of government would be regarded as less authoritative than others . |
| 14 | We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway . |
| 15 | The application of expert systems in aircraft maintenance would lead to the integration of its four generations that are ( more or less ) used today in the aviation industry . |
| 16 | The Commission took the view that the proposed merger , resulting in the purchase of the ‘ number one ’ manufacturer ( De Havilland ) in the commuter market by the ‘ number two ’ manufacturer ( ATR ) , would lead to the new entity , ATR/De Havilland , holding 50% of the world market and 65% of the Community market . |
| 17 | But ITV Association chairman Greg Dyke said the proposal would lead to the network losing hit shows and mean stars like The Bill 's Christopher Ellison would only be seen on satellite TV . |
| 18 | On 2 October 1990 the inspector requested accounts of and details of transactions with one of the plaintiff 's subsidiaries , B ( Pte ) Ltd ( a Singapore company ) , as it was possible that this information would lead to the amendment of existing assessments . |
| 19 | It was also expected that this decision would lead to the building of a power station to use the lignite . |
| 20 | In November Lord Lansdowne , an aged , distinguished and highly conservative Tory politician , convinced that continuation of the war would lead to the collapse of the social order , appealed publicly for a negotiated peace . |
| 21 | CAR giant Ford is considering a major restructuring plan involving tendering out work which would lead to the loss of about 3,000 jobs throughout Europe , including over 1,000 in the UK , according to a confidential report . |
| 22 | He foresaw that their success would lead to the overthrow of learning in the universities , the neglect of civil law , and indeed to anarchy . |
| 23 | When these were taken on , there was a worry that they would lead to the familiar ‘ display and decay ’ syndrome ( to use Andy Saunders ' words ) that many collections have landed themselves in . |
| 24 | Compressing this occurrence of -ing would lead to the false impression that walkingly is a word . |
| 25 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 26 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 27 | On this argument higher rates of self-financing would lead to the artificial depression of sales and to under -investment in electricity , precisely the opposite of ‘ crowding out ’ . |
| 28 | The salary paid to the collector by the county for his efforts to extract the cess from the taxpayers , moreover , was sufficient to stimulate competition for the post , and the attraction was enough on occasion to cause severe embarrassment to county politicians , who feared that support for one candidate would lead to the permanent alienation of his rivals and their friends . |
| 29 | This would lead to the transfer of children 's day centres from social work to education and their possible future demise . |
| 30 | The loyalty to the Crown of English settlers was not matched by any comparable institutional framework ; a well-informed observer on the continent of Europe might reasonably have expected that the execution of Charles I would lead to the disintegration of his empire overseas and that the Republic would be unable to assert any authority at all over emigrants whose political links with England were already so relatively weak . |