Example sentences of "lead [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afraid Julius might be coming after her , she ran down the steps and into the garden , following the paths that led between wide beds of herbaceous flowers , many of them still blooming happily in the warmth of the long , sunny autumn . |
| 2 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 3 | When the Prince of Asturias put a candle in his window to start a riot against his father , he called into existence a process which led through constitutional monarchy to a democratic republic . |
| 4 | Low-level exposure to lead during early childhood is associated with delays in neurophysical development during the first seven years of life , concludes a study of 494 children in a lead-smelting community in South Australia . |
| 5 | The more literally this is interpreted the more it seems to lead into mechanistic , one-way formulations such as behaviourism . |
| 6 | Ungar 's experiments were done before other research — which was to lead in due course to the opening up of a major new branch of neuropharmacology and to the making of some very distinguished scientific reputations — had revealed how important many peptides were in the brain . |
| 7 | Indeed , where the bank or other party refuses to co-operate and the offence is serious , or is likely to lead to substantial financial gain or loss to any person , the same act allows the police to search for evidence which has the intention of furthering a criminal purpose , and in such cases this provision overrides legal privilege . |
| 8 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 9 | This is likely to lead to radical changes in the committee 's procedures , which could be implemented next year . |
| 10 | This is likely to lead to undue pressure on you and you will start to break from the programme and put on weight . |
| 11 | In animal models the presence of carcinogen DNA adducts has been shown to lead to specific mutations within DNA including the activation of known oncogenes and the persistence of DNA adducts in a tissue may be correlated with an increased risk of developing cancer in that tissue . |
| 12 | It is a laborious process , likely to lead to embarrassing blunders if badly done . |
| 13 | The four week visit furthered the process of mutual understanding of local government systems , which is expected to lead to joint research activities . |
| 14 | Thus his argument is that although both effects exist , the important effect as far as eyewitness testimony is concerned is that high levels of arousal in actual crimes are likely to lead to impaired memory performance . |
| 15 | The report is not intended to lead to new regulations but to establish an agenda for HSE work . |
| 16 | FUNDAMENTAL science often leads to fresh technologies and even to new industries , but is is far less usual for developments in technology to lead to new science . |
| 17 | Although the long-term aim of the ‘ Blue Skies ’ project is to lead to new horizons and drum up major new business for BP outside its present main activities , the nature of the research was not specified — only that it should be based in universities and similar institutions at home or abroad . |
| 18 | Better understanding of the secrets of transcription control are likely to lead to new selective vectors . |
| 19 | With experienced viewers this tended to lead to new visual discoveries and a concomitant extension of the construct system as it grappled with freshly perceived features . |
| 20 | These attributes would be expected to lead to new and better solutions to problems in the UK and it seems that the apparent anomaly may be of cultural origin . |
| 21 | By early November however , as the Dublin lock-out attacks against leaders of the trade unions and the Labour Party who seemed to be obstructing his plans for a general strike , not only in Dublin , but throughout Great Britain , vilifying them as " serpents whom I shall allow to raise their foul heads and spit out their poison no longer " and as having " neither soul to be saved nor body to be kicked " Almost overnight , support for Larkin turned into denunciation of his reckless methods and of his policy of attempting to bleed British unions of funds in support of sympathy strikes which seemed destined either to fail or to lead to unwanted revolution . |
| 22 | As can be the case with such creative minds , many of the ideas are regarded as crazy , but occasionally one is crazy enough to lead to real breakthroughs . |
| 23 | Moderate weight loss seems to lead to subtle ovulation disorders and therefore to decreasing fecundity . |
| 24 | The ‘ bad ’ air tended to lead to premature death , rather than explosions . |
| 25 | In his memoirs he answers the charge : ‘ Some Tories , like me , are criticised for this supposed failing ( of being patrician ) which is said to lead to moral softness , in contrast with the toughness of those who have had to fight their way in life . |
| 26 | It resulted in the erm extra requirement for security which does happen to which Mr has referred and I I think it 's it 's very very important to realise that if that three party cooperation can be achieved as it should be , bearing in mind what Simon says that we are going to have to do this , with horrendous problems in the youth and community project in the future and we would be failing completely in our duty , not just to the people of Highfields , but to the people of this whole county if we simply allowed politics , as has been done in the past , to lead to entrenched positions and the idea of simply saying to the director , we are in a mess therefore will you please deal with it all is I think wildly irresponsible and I 'm very very surprised indeed that erm that point should be put . |
| 27 | Given the present state of understanding regarding the causes and appropriate forms of intervention for children with language difficulties , this kind of short-cut is likely to lead to inadequate assessment and ineffective treatment . |
| 28 | Geophysical studies tend also to lead to regional syntheses over substantial areas , and their topicality is another facet of their total influence . |
| 29 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 30 | While we know that putting young offenders in penal settings is likely to lead to poor results in terms of behaviour modification , it has the function of being a punitive symbol and keeping awkward clients out of circulation . |