Example sentences of "[verb] led [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the much greater availability of illegal drugs has led to a phenomenal growth in drug offences . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The mixture of environments in the coastal areas of the World has led to a rich variety of life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erm that factor has enhanced its value for agriculture and intensification has led to a wholesale loss of features . |
| 8 | This has led to a strong marketing campaign for the concept of disposable lenses , which are replaced monthly , weekly or even ( in principle ) daily . |
| 9 | The interplay of such regional , local and superpower interests has led to a complex ‘ Balkan ’ situation in the Middle East . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | International interest in the sue of the plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel has led to a joint venture with BNFL . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The group 's recent research has led to a general policy optimization framework for large macroeconomic models . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Scientific method , using experiment and reasoning , has led to a marvellous extension of knowledge . |
| 21 | The integration of staff for training has led to a good exchange of ideas , greater enthusiasm , and higher staff morale . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Much research and attention to artists ' requirements has led to a new breed of synthetic brushes which are highly appropriate for use with acrylics , among other uses , which hold their shape well over a long period of time , are delightfully responsive to use , are superbly controllable , allowing precision work , and are durable enough to resist occasional misuse . |
| 24 | The recognition that , given appropriate opportunities , time , and carefully devised teaching strategies , even people with very severe learning difficulties can make progress has led to a new commitment . |
| 25 | This has led to a new lease of life for the old concept of ‘ labour aristocracy ’ and it has been attached to the workers who have these jobs , in comparison with the workers in the informal or the indigenous sectors ( see Lloyd , 1982 ; Boyd et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | A newspaper survey has found that concern about the environment has led to a sharp rise in members of environmental organisations over the 1980's . |
| 27 | This concentration , upon the value aspects , can be misleading , and in fact has led to a certain neglect by many Marxists of the material , use-value , aspects of reproduction and the centrality of this use-value in the reproduction schema . |
| 28 | X-PLOR and Hendrickson-Konnert least-squares restrained refinement has led to a final R -factor of 18.7% at 2.4Å , with an r.m.s. bond-length deviation of 0.021Å . |
| 29 | So the extension of insurance provision has led to a greater likelihood of the reporting of many crimes . |
| 30 | The study of patients with FAP has led to a greater awareness of the importance of family history in apparently sporadic colorectal cancer . |