Example sentences of "lead to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are among 214 families worldwide whose medical history has been analysed to narrow the hunt for the gene , which can lead to cancer among women in their 30s and 40s . |
| 2 | Substantial deviation of particle shapes from spheres may lead to underestimation of the characteristic intermediate diameter according to Ludwick & henderson ( 1968 ) . |
| 3 | The statement ended : ‘ It is a sad reflection on the morality involved if thousands of badly needed jobs can not be provided , as proposed factory sites may lead to depreciation of property value in the immediate vicinity . |
| 4 | The velocity gradient can lead to generation of turbulence in the usual way through the action of inertia forces ( Section 19.3 ) . |
| 5 | Mr Gourlay said there was also concern about the transitional arrangements which would lead to disparity of treatment between different companies which had not made long-term commitments for rigs which would qualify for tax relief . |
| 6 | Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved . |
| 7 | Some parents were very worried that more integrated settings would lead to lack of attention for children with special needs . |
| 8 | It would lead to lack of competition in local retailing and an increasing reliance on basic ‘ no frills ’ stores , selling only a restricted range of products . |
| 9 | For deaf people , this isolation may lead to lack of access to the legal machinery of statementing , which presently conveys at least some protection to those who are struggling with their education . |
| 10 | Too heavy a reliance on a particular firm or industry might lead to lack of balance in research output — fundamental research without an immediate pay-off may be pushed out , and there is also a danger that commercial pressures may begin to dictate the courses on offer . |
| 11 | It may lead to lack of motivation . |
| 12 | They can lead to lack of clarity about who does what , fail the local loyalty test , are less efficient at making decisions . |
| 13 | Although this can lead to frustration for car drivers — especially in the summer when large queues build up — it helps limit the environmental damage to this very special area . |
| 14 | It can also lead to narrowness in that staff may have technical and specialist information in a single field but little concern or understanding about the work of other departments . |
| 15 | Leading members of the labour movement advocated both an eight-hour day , as a means of permanently increasing the regularly employed labour force ( a nine or ten hour day , six days a week being then normal ) , and public works , despite some fears that under private enterprise such sharing of work could lead to depression of wages . |
| 16 | If it works appropriate use of technologies and procedures will lead to success for any health plan . |
| 17 | However , none of these secondary functions of business can lead to success by themselves . |
| 18 | Many observers from national radio societies were attached to official delegations and , according to the W5Y1 Report , more than 100 radio amateurs from about 40 countries were among the delegates , clearly demonstrating how an early interest in amateur radio can lead to success in a telecommunications career . |
| 19 | Over a series of evenings at the end of March and the beginning of April , 13 chief examiners gave Associateship candidates invaluable advice on the techniques which could lead to success in the approaching examinations . |
| 20 | How does he square the Government 's commitment to allow public service managers the right to manage with compelling them to opt for competitive tendering in circumstances where , he will accept , that can be costly to prepare and can lead to inflexibility in meeting changing circumstances ? |
| 21 | Discussions over the need for increased powers for the Scottish party were initiated by its nationalist wing but have been seized on by the left as a means of ensuring that Labour 's different electoral aims north and south of the Border do not lead to alienation of the party 's traditional supporters in Scotland . |
| 22 | This is simply explained since both bleomycin and DNase I cleave double stranded DNA ; bleomycin cleavage of GT on one strand must therefore lead to protection of AC on the opposite strand . |
| 23 | The policy of withholding funds for investment in the reconstruction of the Basque Country , Catalonia and Asturias was a deliberate , punitive gesture , as well as a precautionary measure , lest too rapid or too successful economic recovery should lead to agitation for the political autonomy to which they had aspired — and , in the case of the Basque Country and Catalonia , enjoyed — under the Republic . |
| 24 | Third , Rawls ' conception of the person does not lead to unanimity of moral views . |
| 25 | Party control over the army , KGB , state administration , economic management and other public institutions and professional groups that staff them does not lead to unity of interest among them ( Hirszowicz 1976 , p. 270 ) . |
| 26 | The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part . |
| 27 | Hopefully this may lead to publicity for these benefactors . |
| 28 | For the doom-and-gloomers who have always predicted the community care reforms would lead to chaos in social services , nothing can have been more reassuring than events in the health service so far this year . |
| 29 | The Type II model may lead to inequity between health care groups since large amounts of a health authority 's budget would be compulsorily diverted to those areas where patients are more mobile and where providers find it most profitable to supply services , i.e. mainly elective surgery . |
| 30 | Experience of life suggests that evil does ravage our capacity to listen to God and hear him ; it does lead to deterioration of character and to further separation from God . |