Example sentences of "lead [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are to discuss a proposition , offering and evaluating arguments with appropriate illustration on different sides ; the arguments should lead towards a conclusion which ( 1 ) follows the arguments you have offered , and ( 2 ) matches the balance of possibilities which you argued for in your essay . |
| 2 | It increases the pressure on volunteers and on the phone lines dramatically , because whereas any other sort of information call may take a minute or two , an AIDS call can take half an hour or more because the information may lead into a discussion of the caller 's lifestyle , moral attitudes and emotional needs . |
| 3 | This will lead into a discussion of the Nixon presidency including Watergate and the repercussions that followed , such as the widespread decline in public trust and a vigorous reassertion of congressional power . |
| 4 | This optimism is keyed to the possibility that the US might lead in a field in which superiority is not a national goal . |
| 5 | A celebration of the Queen 's passion for the Turf , gun dogs and racing pigeons — one imagines in that order — comes as a welcome relief and makes one hope fervently that she will one day lead in a Derby winner . |
| 6 | President Gorbachev and other Politburo members have angrily , and at times desperately , appealed against such a move , for fear it would lead to a breakup of the Soviet Communist Party and , ultimately , of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The independence referendum had provoked warnings from Gorbachev that it would lead to a breakup of the Union and hence disaster . |
| 8 | On the one hand , driving interest rates down would predictably lead to a dollar outflow . |
| 9 | Conservationists had protested that Mr Ridley 's plans for broadening economic activity on farmland could lead to a rash of theme parks , shopping developments and housing estates . |
| 10 | This was implied by the Cambridge Economic Policy Group ( CEPG ) , who used an accounting identity ( see Ch. 27 ) to demonstrate that a higher PSBR must lead to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 11 | Here is a case where digitisation , which has so much to offer the historian , could actually lead to a deterioration in the nature of the source material available . |
| 12 | The ‘ short-sighted ’ award would simply lead to a deterioration in morale , cause difficulties implementing the Government 's patient 's charter and lead to more staff leaving the health service , she said . |
| 13 | Interruption denies the buyer the kind of respect he is entitled to receive and may lead to a misunderstanding of the real substance behind the objection . |
| 14 | This life style may be unsuitable for some women and boredom can lead to a couple 's failure to complete an assignment , even to breakdown of their marriage . |
| 15 | Where A demands money from B in retum for not disclosing B 's wrongdoing , A will usually be guilty of blackmail contrary to section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 and , if ‘ the offer ’ constitutes a crime , it dearly can not lead to a contract ; but what if B , without any demand , express or implied by A , offers A money not to disclose B's wrongdoing , and A accepts ? |
| 16 | The Business is constantly engaged in negotiations which may or may not lead to a contract . |
| 17 | It is done on a 12-week cycle and will lead to a reduction in the cost for a producer with , say , 60 hens , to about £24 over the laying period . |
| 18 | It would be reasonable to expect that the extension and development of community psychiatric services would lead to a reduction in the rate of suicide and attempted suicide , but there is little evidence that this is so . |
| 19 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) have suggested that increased public education about the facts of attempted suicide , as opposed to commonly held beliefs , might contribute to the development of less favourable attitudes , which in turn might lead to a reduction in suicide attempts . |
| 20 | It should lead to a reduction in the food costs themselves . |
| 21 | The experience in housing and nursing home care in Britain suggests that the level of state subsidies required to enable poor individuals to participate in such a market does not lead to a reduction in the total cost to the state . |
| 22 | Siemens Nixdorf 's plan to improve profitability involves a cost-cutting and restructuring programme that should lead to a reduction of some 9,000 jobs by the end of the 1994–95 financial year from 51,600 jobs at September 30 1991 . |
| 23 | It could , for example , consist of a complaint that a rating list had been prepared on an unfair basis in the sense that another ratepayer 's property had been undervalued , even if a revaluation would not lead to a reduction in the complainant 's rate bill . |
| 24 | Although large numbers of staff are not involved , the changes will lead to a reduction in Home Office manpower . |
| 25 | Calculations , again by the House of Commons Library , suggest that such an increase would lead to a reduction of families drawing means-tested supplementary benefit , and family credit . |
| 26 | Zinc and vitamin A , if deficient , may lead to a reduction in the output of hormones by the thyroid , and in turn a relative slowing of metabolic rate . |
| 27 | First , it is unlikely that the decrease in family size will lead to a reduction in the demand for HE . |
| 28 | An increase in earnings will lead to a reduction in both benefit and child support and so lone mothers will tend to be trapped at a low level of income . |
| 29 | Editor , — The possibility that late clamping of the umbilical cord may lead to a reduction in respiratory distress syndrome is not a particularly new finding , but S Kinmond and colleagues offer a more scientific approach in evaluating this phenomenon . |
| 30 | Clear and up-to-date development plan policies should also lead to a reduction in the number of speculative applications and in the success rate of appeals against local authorities . |