Example sentences of "led to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So far , many of the improvements they brought about have survived , and the fragmented bus industry has not yet led to a breakdown of the integrated ticketing that marked such a step forward in British practice . |
| 4 | This has certainly led to a freeing of the body to give it a greater range of movement . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Today , the pressure to make hay while the sun fitfully shines has led to a massive slump in both public and private standards . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The reduction in numbers was still startlingly small — for example , even after the convertibility crisis of 1947 had led to a further downward revision of the targets for 31 March 1948 , there were still 937,000 in uniform , supported by 350,000 in supplying industries . |
| 14 | Such changes in the target areas of lending not only make its impact more difficult to assess , but have not yet led to a sustained improvement in the rate of economic growth achieved by recipient countries . |
| 15 | ‘ It is clear that the extensions to permitted opening hours have not led to a marked increase in overall consumption , ’ the report concluded . |
| 16 | But the same evidence could have led to a theory celebrating the system which , by laying down norms , establishing disciplines and , most important of all , providing scripts that , while not always particularly imaginative , were at least a sound basis to work from , enabled these directors to realize their individual vision . |
| 17 | In Andhra Pradesh , the autocratic rule of the former film star , Mr N.T. Rama Rao , has led to a steady haemorrhage of defectors from his Telugu Desam party to the Congress . |
| 18 | Kingfisher 's £461million bid for Dixon 's led to a resurgence of speculative activity yesterday . |
| 19 | Earlier reports that Chancellor Kohl had suggested delaying fixing the date for a special EC conference on monetary union for a year had led to a stark and none too veiled warning from the President of the European Commission , Mr Jacques Delors , that this might plunge EC relations with West Germany ‘ into a serious crisis ’ . |
| 20 | Over-confidence in the early days has led to a surfeit of caution ever since . |
| 21 | Fact is , it 's precisely the too-thorough internalization of punk 's dread of the hippy and the resulting strategy of self-limitation that has led to a wholly different kind of dire stasis . |
| 22 | Sweden : ( where nuclear power provides 46 per cent of the electricity ) : parliament decides to begin phasing out nuclear power in 1995–6 ( but parliament 's restrictions on new hydro-electric power stations and the imposition of a ceiling on carbon dioxide emissions have led to a retreat from the goal of becoming , in 2010 , the first country to terminate nuclear power generation ) . |
| 23 | That has led to a suggestion with far-reaching consequences . |
| 24 | A pity , say analysts , that it did not come off : America 's biggest-ever bank merger could have led to a barrelful of such deals — and not before time . |
| 25 | When Caius is mentioned as being a husband , our minds are led to a woman whose husband he is . |
| 26 | Both Konrad Lorenz and Nicko Tinbergen , and most of their followers , were led to a study of animal behaviour by a passion for natural history . |
| 27 | I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs . |
| 28 | It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ . |
| 29 | Such experiences have led to a lack of confidence in the possibility of resolving problems . |
| 30 | Initiatives undertaken in response to the widespread dissatisfaction with residential care have led to a general improvement in the quality of services . |