Example sentences of "[adv] lead to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other points of conflict between the two countries included the reluctance of the US administration to allow India to buy certain items of advanced technology , including a " supercomputer " and defence items , because of fears that such grants would breach technology transfer restrictions and perhaps lead to the items falling into the hands of the Soviet Union through India 's close ties with that country [ see p. 34947 ] . |
| 2 | Changing circumstances and financial conditions inevitably and rightly lead to the need to review your pensions portfolio . |
| 3 | He argued that the system was bound to collapse , either because a liquidity shortage would ensue if the supply of dollars failed to keep pace with the growing world demand , or because the persistent balance of payments deficits of the USA ( which provided dollars to the world ) would reduce confidence in the dollar and so lead to the conversion of official dollar balances into gold . |
| 4 | The acceptability of wishes and attitudes is not based upon such conformity , though of course they normally lead to the effort to produce it . |
| 5 | This is because domestic inflationary pressures generally lead to the diversion of foreign currency meant to be spent on imported plant and equipment to the importation of foodstuffs and other consumer goods . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm interested in the small things that gradually lead to the repression of women — I want to make people see these , but be able to laugh at the same time . |
| 7 | The same features of the mode of production also lead to the state intervening in the process of commodity exchange and social labour . |
| 8 | Processes along continental-margin subduction zones often lead to the formation of massive granite batholiths which play an important part in orogenesis . |
| 9 | Robin Duthy 's calculations for Italian artists ( see The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1992 , p. 19 ) roughly lead to the same profile as ours . |
| 10 | Misusing drugs in pregnancy can seriously harm your baby and even lead to the birth of a baby dependent on drugs . |
| 11 | Misusing drugs in pregnancy can seriously harm your baby and even lead to the birth of a baby dependent on drugs . |
| 12 | If the money supply is not expanded sufficiently to meet this demand , interest rates will rise , this in turn will discourage some investment and so contribute to the slowing down in the growth of output and eventually lead to the upper turning-point . |
| 13 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |