Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] lead [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rise in the price of oil had little immediate impact , but the collapse of world stock markets , the fall in demand , especially in the USA , for Hong Kong exports and the fear that Japanese banks would cut back on investment all led to growth predictions being revised downwards , in some instance to negative growth . |
| 2 | And it brought Joy more than admiring glances — her cute car also led to romance . |
| 3 | Three regular meals a day avoiding snacks often leads to weight reduction . |
| 4 | If only she could be with her , give her a hug , the affection and understanding she needed , at the same time trying to make her see that issuing ultimatums inevitably led to war — whether it was between countries or lovers ! |
| 5 | Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill . |
| 6 | His exceptional progress soon led to exhibition matches and tours of western Europe , and on to America , where his family settled in 1920 . |
| 7 | Mahaz-i-Melli-i-Islami ( National Islamic Front , Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani l. ) and four fundamentalist Sunni groups , namely , Hezb-i-Islami ( Islamic Party , two factions respectively led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Mohammad Yunus Khales ) ; Jamiat-i Islami ( Islamic Society , Burhanuddin Rabbani l . ) ; |
| 8 | He was panicking ; and panic invariably leads to mistakes . |
| 9 | Britain at that time , like much of the European continent — including Italy — was ruled by strong personalities in small units , sometimes called ‘ Kingdoms ’ , and invasions from other countries sometimes led to settlement . |
| 10 | The desire to " discover " useful texts sometimes led to forgeries , as the False Decretals . |
| 11 | Enthusiasm usually leads to growth , when coupled with sensitivity and knowledge . |
| 12 | Their subject-matter is les petites gens , the ordinary people Simenon is said to understand so well , and their tumultuous lives in which jealousy , blackmail and greed generally lead to suicide or murder . |
| 13 | Blind faith in training for training 's sake soon leads to disillusionment and frustration . |
| 14 | In order to understand them better we therefore need to examine their influence ; and this process of investigation also leads to elaboration . |
| 15 | Really going for it , but the advances also led to weaknesses around his king and if the kingside files become open , then it is far from clear who benefits most , as the game shows . |
| 16 | Difficulties in interpreting data on Eurocurrency often lead to problems in assessing the market 's economic influence . |
| 17 | The practice of ahi sā inevitably leads to Truth . |
| 18 | Working on an exhibition of this nature inevitably leads to reflection on the artist : ‘ The more I work on Rembrandt , the more fascinated I am and the more remarkable he becomes ’ was Christopher Brown 's assessment , ‘ in range , ambition and the achievement of that ambition he stands so far above his contemporaries ’ . |
| 19 | The owners have now placed the two car unit on a six year loan to the ELR and restoration to full working order commenced at Bury about 2½ years ago led by Roy Sheffield of the Electrical Engineering Department . |
| 20 | If it is your own mother who is bereaved , the fact that you are grieving too will probably help you both a good deal , as you will be able to share your sorrow and comfort each other ; though in some families shared sorrow occasionally leads to friction and unreasonable apportioning of blame for trivial or imagined omissions in the course of the terminal illness of the deceased . |
| 21 | Displacements of atoms during a molecular vibration therefore lead to distortions in the electric charge distribution of the molecule , which can be resolved into dipole , quadrupole , octopole , etc. terms in various directions . |
| 22 | All roads probably led to City Hall . |
| 23 | Despite the claims by many that advanced levels of technological development somehow lead to democracy and scientific thought , the ‘ advanced ’ states of the modern world would not necessarily emerge very favourably from a comparison of degrees of historical ‘ objectivity ’ , however defined . |
| 24 | It failed to resolve the question of foreign influence in Korea , which a decade later led to war between China and Japan . |
| 25 | Paper documentation also leads to delays in servicing users especially when the data are being delivered over the network or online , but documentation must be photocopied and sent by post . |
| 26 | These conflicting ideas between party committees and student campaigners nearly led to confrontation at Beida , where the student elected to the local congress was denied his seat . |
| 27 | Skipper Alan Kernaghan again led by example , with Nicky Mohan solid as a rock alongside him . |
| 28 | In bureaucratic organizations the latter notion ultimately leads to situations in which a man can be called a ‘ manager ’ solely on the grounds that he supervises a certain number of people , and without regard to the degree of judgement or decision-making responsibility such supervision requires . |
| 29 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 30 | The experience often leads to depression and serious illness ; indeed many people die shortly after retiring . |