Example sentences of "[modal v] lead [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , apart from this possibility , an increase in the money supply should lead to a fall in interest rates , other things being equal . |
| 2 | Recall that the optimality theory says that an increase in k should lead to a fall in X , and that our subjects ( on the second repetition ) appeared to be doing the opposite . |
| 3 | It should lead to a reduction in the food costs themselves . |
| 4 | Siemens Nixdorf 's plan to improve profitability involves a cost-cutting and restructuring programme that should lead to a reduction of some 9,000 jobs by the end of the 1994–95 financial year from 51,600 jobs at September 30 1991 . |
| 5 | In 1969 NATO had agreed that progress in Germany should lead to a conference on European security which Moscow had wanted since the 1950s . |
| 6 | If there are no institutional or other barriers to the working of market forces , the general excess supply of labour associated with this real wage should lead to a decline in the level of money wages . |
| 7 | Thus , other things being equal , an increase in the demand for a firm 's product should lead to an increase in the firm 's demand for labour and , conversely , a decrease in the demand for the firm 's product should lead to a decrease in the firm 's demand for labour . |
| 8 | On the other hand , removal of a functional group interacting with a residue other than His197 should lead to a decrease in affinity for the H197A mutant compared with the wild type , analogous to what is observed for the parent compound CP 96345 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is important to recall all this to memory , but above all , it should lead to a commitment to the continuing struggle for justice and for life . |
| 10 | ‘ It is important to recall all this to memory , but above all , it should lead to a commitment to the continuing struggle for justice and for life . |
| 11 | Together the SR and GR effects should lead to a time delay variation of amplitude of about 4 ms over one orbit . |
| 12 | You are to discuss a proposition , offering and evaluating arguments with appropriate illustration on different sides ; the arguments should lead towards a conclusion which ( 1 ) follows the arguments you have offered , and ( 2 ) matches the balance of possibilities which you argued for in your essay . |
| 13 | This was implied by the Cambridge Economic Policy Group ( CEPG ) , who used an accounting identity ( see Ch. 27 ) to demonstrate that a higher PSBR must lead to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 14 | There were no lights in evidence , except for a slight glow from the top of a short flight of steps , which must lead to a room above the garage . |
| 15 | The study has no fixed hypothesis since analysis of the motor sequence of the sign might lead to a LHA while spatial analysis would produce a RHA . |
| 16 | That manoeuvre might lead to a diamond ruff for West at trick two , but even that is unlikely to prove fatal . |
| 17 | Something told her that the glint in Charles 's eyes might lead to a follow-up of his recce . |
| 18 | One of Rice 's reasons for accepting an invitation to join the board in the first place was his belief that it might lead to a rekindling of the old partnership . |
| 19 | Ho responded immediately to this newspaper article by proposing various measures which might lead to a return to normality and to the hopeful provisions of the modus vivendi , not least an end to the press and radio incitements from both sides , but whether at this stage Ho and Blum were in the saddle or not , things were beginning to fall apart . |
| 20 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 21 | The real er difficulty is that we at this stage do n't actually know what 's going to be in the local plan and we believe and this is what erm Mid Sussex District Council are suggesting , is that it will be an amalgamation of the current separate local plans which cover their area , but there may well be some changes erm and until we see the thing as a whole we do n't know what it will say , moreover erm there may be elements outside the East Grinstead housing and business allocation which erm from another point of view might lead to a withholding of the statement of conformity . |
| 22 | Sale et al. ( 1975 ) have suggested that increased public education about the facts of attempted suicide , as opposed to commonly held beliefs , might contribute to the development of less favourable attitudes , which in turn might lead to a reduction in suicide attempts . |
| 23 | Perhaps , for instance , a case could be made for discouraging risks that might lead to a person 's loss of employment , if their chances of gaining another job were remote . |
| 24 | Comparing two different accounts of the place , for instance , or an adverse traveller 's account and a hotel advertisement persuading people to stay there might lead to a discussion on interpretations in history . |
| 25 | One can certainly envisage situations in which the sub-optimal response of agents to the dynamics of a particular dynamic market game might lead to a market equilibrium away from that which would be reached under optimal behaviour . |
| 26 | Co-operating with him might lead to a sell-out before they had even started . |
| 27 | But it was always feared that a Clinton victory in an American Presidential election might lead to a shift in US policy with regard to the Northern Ireland problem . |
| 28 | The Soviet Union , for its part , was reportedly attracted by the potential of the Indonesian domestic market and , specifically , by the possibility that restraints on Indonesian military spending might lead to a shift in procurement away from Western armaments to less expensive Soviet ones . |
| 29 | It also takes up a lot of memory for OPEN , remembering all states which might lead to a solution . |
| 30 | The Divisional Court in that case distinguished between the obtaining of evidence for use in a trial , ‘ direct ’ material , which constituted ‘ testimony ’ under that Act and which would be gathered in response to a Letter of Request , and the obtaining of ‘ indirect ’ material , which might lead to a line of enquiry pointing to actual evidence ; the English courts would not assist a foreign court to obtain such ‘ indirect ’ material . |