Example sentences of "[adv] lead to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several doors opened off the landing and there were ladder-like stairs which presumably led to the attics . |
| 2 | We now know that during the Saturday daylight raids on London , a chiefs-of-staff meeting took urgent action on deciding that invasion was likely within a few hours ; they had the code word ‘ Cromwell ’ flashed from the War Room to military units at 20.07 hours that evening ( which presumably led to the flap at my unit ; the station commander was away that weekend , and the acting CO in charge ) . |
| 3 | Somerset 's arrest in 1549 did not , as many expected , return the conservatives to power , but rather led to the primacy of John Dudley , Duke of Northumberland , who in alliance with Archbishop Cranmer eliminated the remaining conservatives from the council . |
| 4 | The notable successes of the women 's branch under Anderson 's leadership , particularly women inspectors ' ‘ substitution ’ for men inspectors during World War I , paradoxically led to the demise of the women 's branch in 1921 , when women and men inspectors were ‘ fused ’ into an integrated inspectorate . |
| 5 | It was in this capacity that Le Duc Tho conducted secret negotiations in the early 1970s with Henry Kissinger , US President Nixon 's National Security Adviser , which eventually led to the signing of the 1973 Paris agreements . |
| 6 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 7 | This eventually led to the initiation of the annual ‘ Puritan ’ Conference in 1950 ( since re-named the ‘ Westminster ’ Conference ) and which continues to this day . |
| 8 | Ever since 1914 , when the great majority of the leaders of social democratic parties in Europe supported the war effort of their own nation states — under a variety of influences , one of which was undoubtedly the nationalist fervour of the peoples involved — the capacity of the socialist movement to bring about a new kind of political relationship among the peoples of the world has seemed more questionable ; and the doubts have multiplied not only as a result of the course taken by the revolution in Russia , culminating in the project of building ‘ socialism in one country ’ , which eventually led to the identification of socialism with the national interests of the Soviet Union , but also in the light of the actual relations that developed between the communist countries in the postwar period . |
| 9 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 10 | Subsequently , and very shortly after having written that letter , the father sought legal advice in Australia and then took the steps which eventually led to the issue of this originating summons . |
| 11 | In late 1959 Goleniewski had given MI5 enough information to identify Harry Houghton , who worked at the Admiralty 's underwater research laboratory at Portland , which eventually led to the exposure of the Portland spy ring . |
| 12 | The failure of this ‘ mechanical speech ’ approach ( which eventually led to the development of speech synthesis by rule ) has many lessons to teach us about pronunciation teaching and learning , and it will be useful , in looking at connected speech , to bear in mind the difference between the way humans speak and what would be found in ‘ mechanical speech ’ . |
| 13 | As an undercover customs agent based in Tampa , Florida , it was his suggestion to target a small-time Colombian drug-money launderer called Gonzalo Mora Jnr that eventually led to the uncovering of a huge laundering operation centred on BCCI . |
| 14 | Thus began the process which eventually led to the peasants ceasing to sow grain and ultimately to the New Economic Policy . |
| 15 | An example is William McDougal 's correspondence with Friendly Societies which revealed their discrimination against deaf people , and eventually led to the acceptance of the deaf and dumb on equal terms with hearing people by the Church Benefit Society . |
| 16 | The expense , the incompetence of the personnel , the distances involved , the lack of an agricultural base , the foreign competition , a reorientation of imperial policies in the far East — these and a number of other factors analysed by Gibson eventually led to the sale of Russian America to the United States in 1867 ‘ at two cents an acre ’ . |
| 17 | First , although it was a serious issue which eventually led to the introduction of the Public Order Act in 1936 , such violence was only a pale reflection of the conflict which led to the growth of fascism in Italy and Germany in the inter-war period . |
| 18 | This eventually led to the establishment of the Phillimore Committee , which issued a fairly modest report in 1974,1R and thence to the Contempt of Court Act 1981 . |
| 19 | Webster 's resignation came only a month after a fire in the US embassy in Moscow , which apparently led to the loss of computer disks and other sensitive material when Soviet firefighters , possibly including State Security ( KGB ) agents , were allowed to move unescorted through parts of the building . |
| 20 | Associated with the growth of the proletariat in the towns of feudal times were other processes which together led to the concentration of the means of production in ever-fewer hands , a process which ultimately led to the capitalism of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | This came as no surprise : the lunar-like data outlined above , the small size of Mercury and the corresponding likelihood of little geological activity , the absence of a significant atmosphere , the abundance of craters on Mars , all led to the expectation that Mercury would have craters . |
| 22 | Failure to do so leads to the speaker rapidly drying up . |
| 23 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 24 | This way only leads to the nightmare of Los Angeles . |
| 25 | But the word ‘ school ’ only leads to the word ‘ group ’ and , ultimately , only individual works are produced , such as the works of a certain Leonardo da Vinci . |
| 26 | Although many go unrecognized , stray finds are more commonly discovered than sites , and every one is potentially important , adding to archaeological evidence , and perhaps leading to the discovery of a new site . |
| 27 | Such a move would have been legitimate if it had offered the possibility of new kinds of experimental tests , perhaps leading to the discovery of some unexpected feature of the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 28 | ‘ Given the many problems with the data sets , ’ he said , ‘ one is not inexorably led to the conclusion that a negative secular solar radius trend has existed since AD 1700 , but the preponderance of current evidence indicates that such is likely to be the case . ’ |
| 29 | The clash in underlying values between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the former Soviet Union on the other , is illustrated by the fact that an act of financial speculation — which has not only led to the accumulation of great wealth but has also occasionally received public honour in Britain and the United States — might have earned the perpetrator the death sentence in the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |