Example sentences of "[verb] lead to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response of airports and airlines to the Channel Tunnel has been coloured by the impending deregulation of air transport in Europe which is expected to lead to a substantial fall in fares and a rise in business over the next few years . |
| 2 | Discussions with ( Educational Advisor ) are expected to lead to a new support network for LCCIEB centres . |
| 3 | The latter in particular is expected to lead to a significant cut in overall emissions of halons , which are less common than CFCs but more damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 4 | This may be expected to lead to a purposeful action , purposeful inaction or indifference . |
| 5 | Butter and margarine are close substitutes , and so any increase in the price of butter would be expected to lead to an increased demand for margarine as consumers substitute the latter for the relatively more expensive butter . |
| 6 | The assumption that criticism has to lead to a negative evaluation is particularly unfortunate in higher education . |
| 7 | This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders . |
| 8 | This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 9 | Similarly , the much greater availability of illegal drugs has led to a phenomenal growth in drug offences . |
| 10 | A CHANCE meeting at 's 1989 Summer Fayre has led to a lasting romance for 's stock controller and from in France who has since moved to England to continue the relationship . |
| 11 | A list of deadlines and responsibilities was drawn up and agreed between the two departments and this has led to a better understanding of each others tasks and the benefits of compliance . |
| 12 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 13 | The mixture of environments in the coastal areas of the World has led to a rich variety of life . |
| 14 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
| 15 | Erm that factor has enhanced its value for agriculture and intensification has led to a wholesale loss of features . |
| 16 | This has led to a strong marketing campaign for the concept of disposable lenses , which are replaced monthly , weekly or even ( in principle ) daily . |
| 17 | The interplay of such regional , local and superpower interests has led to a complex ‘ Balkan ’ situation in the Middle East . |
| 18 | Some years later , Crook and Elliot ( 1980 ) conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions , suggesting that social class is a confounding variable that has led to a spurious association in some studies between loss and depression . |
| 19 | The potentially large amount of information now available in cross-section surveys has led to a recent explosion in applied economic studies using these data sources . |
| 20 | However , Mr Kane is in no doubt about its value to the organisation : ‘ Working towards the award has led to a noticeable increase in staff motivation and morale . |
| 21 | This has led to a changing ratio between service sector and industrial workers , in the same way that the number of industrial workers earlier overtook the number of workers on the land ( Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 22 | International interest in the sue of the plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel has led to a joint venture with BNFL . |
| 23 | However , the fact that many new systems use relational database storage for spatial and non-spatial data has led to a wide interest in the adaptation of the structured query language ( SQL ) for spatially-related query operations in GIS . |
| 24 | The more obvious uses to which the coin was put , the contexts in which they are found and their distribution has led to a general belief that they were not used as currency in commercial transactions ; rather , they were valued as bullion . |
| 25 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 26 | The group 's recent research has led to a general policy optimization framework for large macroeconomic models . |
| 27 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 28 | Scientific method , using experiment and reasoning , has led to a marvellous extension of knowledge . |
| 29 | The integration of staff for training has led to a good exchange of ideas , greater enthusiasm , and higher staff morale . |
| 30 | The multi-interpretability of film ( polysemy ) and the realisation that spectators can and do adopt diverse identificatory positions in watching film has led to a new and more complex conception of film-viewing . |