Example sentences of "[noun] has led [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resumption of Norwegian seal hunting in March has led to protests from the World Society for the Protection of Animals ( WSPA ) , which claims that the hunters repeatedly breach Norwegian and international regulations in the ways in which they capture and kill both adult seals and pups . |
| 2 | As one example of the latter , social disapproval of cigarette smoking has led to advertising restrictions and mandatory warnings on cigarette packets in the UK ; whilst many third world governments control the manufacture or supply of tobacco products and ( for financial reasons ) almost encourage people to smoke ! |
| 3 | RECESSION has led to misery for millions but none more so than workers made Redundant and those whose homes have been Repossessed . |
| 4 | Oxford University 's presence has led to claims that this seat has the most sophisticated electorate in the country and it 's what makes the contest in Oxford West and Abingdon so interesting . |
| 5 | So far Clarke says the feedback from the trial has led to enhancements in the error handling capabilities of the object-oriented option along with more work on its ability to handle a larger number of objects and a lot of message sends without damaging critical performance features . |
| 6 | This fear has led to demands for minimum wage levels , social security provisions and minimum health and safety guarantees , to avoid competitive pressures reducing standards to unacceptably low levels . |
| 7 | The number of frauds has led to calls for tightening up of audits of investment businesses , and particularly a reduction in the number of many thousands of auditors who examine investment firms so that the ones left can develop greater expertise . |
| 8 | Their fascination with dinosaurs has led to discussions on conservation and ecology , writing their own stories and practise in drawing from observation . |
| 9 | Her remarkable eye for talent has led to star-spotting in some very unusual places . |
| 10 | Research on diabetes continues in many centres , including Oxford , where research on animals has led to techniques of isolating and purifying the human pancreatic cells that produce insulin with a view to implanting them in diabetic patients and curing the disease . |
| 11 | In addition to the output improvement , this work has led to savings in variable production costs . |
| 12 | Interpretation of the Act has led to difficulties even in simple situations . |
| 13 | His financial state is bad and poor management has led to lump sum payments from the DHSS to cover electricity and other bills . |
| 14 | His financial state is bad and poor management has led to lump sum payments from the DHSS to cover electricity and other bills . |
| 15 | Severe recession in the machine tool sector has led to sales falling by 40% in some cases . |
| 16 | A police investigation has led to charges of assault against five officers . |
| 17 | The degree of failure has led to differences in absolute levels of economic performance between Britain and most of the advanced economies , which have begun to alter the relationship between them . |
| 18 | Co-operation between Ballistic and Performance Composites and the Shildon site has led to plans for a joint stand at the Royal Navy and British Army Equipment Exhibition in Aldershot in September . |
| 19 | That there should be about 400 woody species in a hectare of South American or Malaysian forest has led to problems not only in accounting for such diversity , the main subject of this chapter , but also in actually measuring the richness of such forests . |
| 20 | There is a distinct paucity of entirely new courses to mention , but the ‘ work in hand ’ element of Nelson 's various acquisitions over the years has led to Workout at intermediate and upper intermediate level ( née Collins ) , as well as Nelson 's own Distinction , a new post-FCE course some of the exercises in which follow the format of the CAE exam . |
| 21 | AROW between health minister , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Surrey ambulance workers has led to crews voting to step up their action on New Year 's Eve , one of the busiest nights of the year . |
| 22 | Low morale among poorly paid health workers has led to strikes and lessened the quality of care . |
| 23 | A predictable public furore on the other side of the Atlantic has led to court cases and an inevitable sales boom . |
| 24 | The impracticality of large-scale immunization with irradiated sporozoites has led to efforts to identify protective pre-erythrocytic antigens . |
| 25 | The importance of authorities for the generation and maintenance of conventions has led on occasion to ill-conceived attempts to explain the nature of authority exclusively by reference to conventions . |
| 26 | I fully agree with my noble and learned friend 's observation that the dictum in Morris has led to confusion and complication where those in de facto control have been charged with theft from a company and I , too , consider , on the basis ( which he assumes only for the sake of argument ) that the Morris dictum is correct , that it would be wrong , when a person who by virtue of his position in the company constitutes ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ is accused of stealing from the company , to acquit that person on the ground that , in his capacity as the company , he has consented to the taking ( by himself ) of the company 's property , with the result that no appropriation , and therefore no theft , has occurred . |
| 27 | The success of science in extending the frontiers of knowledge has led to scepticism about religion |
| 28 | The absence of deals has led to speculation that advertisers , wary of getting caught in a US-Japan economic crossfire , are ‘ frightened ’ of Yamaguchi because of her Japanese name and heritage . |
| 29 | The delay has led to fears that the leukaemia unit will never match the fund raisers ' hopes . |
| 30 | There is also the possibility that tricyclics may add to the risk of cardiac arrhythmia and severe hypotension , especially in those in whom purging and vomiting has led to dehydration and cardiac dysfunction . |