Example sentences of "have led [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Fluka 's philosophy of continual development of both product range and customer service has led over the last 12 months to the company becoming an integral part of the SAF Bulk Chemical Service .
2 In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth .
3 The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do .
4 One job has led to another but I do remember a particular film audition which I walked out of , much to the concern of everyone , my agent , and the casting director .
5 As a result of the constant remodelling of premises through the period , most of the Victorian pub interiors which survive are late 19th century in date , and most attempts to create ‘ Victorian ’ interiors concentrate on the grander survivals ; this , combined with the common inability to create a sympathetic design , has led to a stereotype of the Victorian pub which is inaccurate .
6 The limited design vocabulary used in modern refurbishment and pub design has led to a proliferation of etched and ‘ stained ’ glass ; dark mahogany-stained bars ; marble-topped cast-iron tables ; shelves of unread books , bottles , plates and brasses ; deep-buttoned plush upholstery ; patterned carpets and wallpaper ; and brass ceiling fans .
7 The modern desire for open-plan has led to the removal of many bar-partitions , destroying the character of original interiors and distorting any attempt to create a truly ‘ Victorian ’ interior .
8 ‘ GA 's policy of working closely with Maxial customers to evolve enhancements has led to this highly effective facility , ’ said John Willson , GA hotel systems sales manager .
9 This imbalance has led to Eureka Audiovisual establishing the following priorities for its work ; the exchange and broadcasting of European works ; training , to encourage competition among European companies ; to assist countries with small production bases and minority languages ; to promote new technologies ; to create more networking opportunities for the industries of cinema and television .
10 The historical progression that has led to this can , at the price of great oversimplification , be seen as follows .
11 And it has led to the introduction of new technologies for the direct investigation of the relationships between brain , behaviour and external events , the subject of the present chapter .
12 the increasing stranglehold of the big brewers has led to high prices , poor choice and pub closures ; and many new small breweries have been driven out of business .
13 Veronica Forrest-Thomson — a brilliant though unstable poet and critic , who died tragically young in 1975 — referred in a review to the work of Barthes , Foucault , and Derrida ‘ which has led to a literary revolution in France and will lead — at last — to revolution in our theory and practice of literature in this country . ’
14 Interestingly , Anthony Easthope acknowledges the distinction at one point in Poetry as Discourse : ‘ Failure to distinguish clearly between signified and referent , the object it may refer to , has led to serious confusion in some accounts of the ideogram . ’
15 Today , the pressure to make hay while the sun fitfully shines has led to a massive slump in both public and private standards .
16 When in Auckland A cultural misunderstanding has led to a young Cook Islander being fined £75 by a New Zealand judge for squeezing the buttocks of two white women in a Wellington street .
17 The state of the M25 has led to suggestions that bigger and better roads may lead only to worse jams .
18 Spanish workers voted heavily Socialist in the European parliamentary elections even though Mr Gonzalez 's tight economic policies has led to a 17.3 per cent jobless rate and running battles with the trade unions .
19 Pressure on emergency services , rather than cash problems , has led to Whipps Cross Hospital in Waltham Forest closing for this week to all but the most urgent waiting-list cases .
20 BENEATH the hype , Mickey Mouse , the Magic Kingdom and the publicity that has led to more than 100,000 people already enquiring about Eurodisney shares in the UK alone , there remains a disconcerting truth about this international share offer .
21 This research influences the way volunteers work with victims but it is also passed on by Victim Support to other organisations that might find it useful : it provides an input into every police training course in Britain , and that has led to a potential new area of work .
22 The example of the installation at Edinburgh has led to several million dollars ' worth of business which , according to Meiko , would have been much harder to obtain without a such a proof of cost-effectiveness .
23 Then , in the 1980s , overseas financial groups have had large British insurance companies within their sights , which has led to aggressively fought takeovers .
24 ( First Edition ) The first international conference to discuss openly air disaster contingency plans was told yesterday that the recent spate of major incidents , including the Lockerbie and Kegworth tragedies , has led to a review of emergency tactics .
25 Pensioners have not fared better than other groups and targetting has led to massive poverty traps ’ .
26 But the ethos of professionalism with which police authorities are imbued has led to a recognition that social research can bring valuable results , so they have opened up their leviathan to strangers and specially commissioned specific pieces of research .
27 Central Council is most grateful for the generous support that has led to this successful outcome .
28 The general conclusion which we have reached is that there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the homicide rate , or that its reintroduction has led to a fall .
29 The general conclusion which we have reached is that there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the homicide rate , or that its reintroduction has led to a fall .
30 He remarks that in America especially there has always been a strong cross-racial homosexual attraction less restrained by social barriers than its heterosexual counterpart ; ‘ the very furtiveness and outlaw status of the gayworld has led to its greater integration across colour lines ’ .
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