Example sentences of "[be] [adj] lead to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes in the international competitiveness of UK exports and imports are likely to lead to the development of a UK balance of payments deficit . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , early efforts are likely to lead to the model charging backwards towards the pilot followed by a large application of forward stick causing an uncontrollable build up of forward speed . |
| 3 | The danger of the current developments is two-fold : that they are likely to lead to the curriculum becoming dominated by technique ; and that the techniques in question are imported from the outside world , and are imposed arbitrarily upon , and unconnected with , the curriculum . |
| 4 | Major research programmes involving several research students within a single department are likely to lead to the completion of several theses within the same academic year . |
| 5 | A court should be slow to draw any such inference , however , since Parliament has in section 4 indicated its intention that an offence should be committed only where the distribution of literature is likely to lead to the use of violence . |
| 6 | If a proposed merger is likely to lead to the merged firms having a market share greater than one quarter or alternatively involves assets in excess of £30 million , then it may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 7 | Thus , much was made of the fact that while the war in Vietnam was ‘ legal ’ , protesting against it was liable to lead to the protester being defined as a criminal ; that drinking alcohol was respectable , while smoking cannabis was not . |