Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] lead [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their stubbornness may lead to a heightened sense of mischievousness and humour untainted by cruelty or spite . |
| 2 | In another sense , however , the research could be interpreted as pointing to the necessity to ensure that , once crossed , the threshold of removal should lead to a particular , compensatory form of care in recognition of the child 's maternal loss . |
| 3 | Subsidiarity may be even worse than worthless , because if people of the intellect of my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary believe that it will be some protection when in fact it will not , that illusion may lead to a great deal more movement to the centre than they would like to see . |
| 4 | But a United Nations expert from Oxford University says action could lead to a holy war . |
| 5 | Similarly , if we can image that the research could lead to a diverging range of possibilities we believe that it is much more likely to lead to unexpected discoveries than would be the case if researchers were focused on a well specified target . |
| 6 | However , we must not forget that we are trying to spawn new industrial or commercial opportunities , and although researchers are encouraged to explore the full potential of their ideas whatever the outcome , it must be conceivable that the research could lead to a significant opportunity for investment within a reasonable timescale ; say a decade or so . |
| 7 | This would allow the individual to specialise in a particular job and the division of labour would lead to a clear distinction between management and the workforce . |
| 8 | It is envisaged that this active mantle upwelling would lead to a significant heating of the overlying lithosphere and could generate uplifts of up to around 1 km . |
| 9 | It is argued that greater care in extraction would lead to a higher price of the timber but , in hill-forest in Sarawak planned systems using directional felling are said to reduce logging damage by half without incurring additional costs . |
| 10 | Sentencing Robert Cameron , Sheriff James Farrell warned that any knife-related crime would lead to a custodial sentence . |
| 11 | IBM , which had insisted that there would be parallel and separate development strategies for MVS and OS/2 on the one hand , and for Unix on the other , now says that the switch will lead to a consistent development environment for OS/2 and AIX . |
| 12 | A rise in investment will lead to a multiplied rise in national income ( from Y 1 to Y 2 ) . |
| 13 | TONIGHT : Clear periods and light winds after dark will lead to a marked fall in temperature . |
| 14 | The expansion of forestry by means of a policy of attrition and isolation of farms is occurring but it is not necessarily a process which in the long term will lead to a reasonable balance of land use . |
| 15 | Drinking alcohol during the daytime and over-eating can lead to an over-powering desire to nod off ( just think of the average household after Christmas dinner ) . |
| 16 | Firstly , a feminist awareness can raise the visibility of gender and challenge the stereotype of a mentally ill woman , and secondly such raised consciousness can lead to a pro-woman practice by mental health workers . |
| 17 | Agonist occupancy of the formyl peptide receptor may lead to a transient , pertussis toxin-sensitive increase in the concentration of free βγ subunits which is sufficiently high to stimulate PLC- β2 . |
| 18 | In addition , a progressive increase in the size of the waves should lead to the movement seawards of the bar , while a diminution should lead to a landward movement , both being caused fundamentally by the movement of the break point . |
| 19 | He suggested , also , that an undue concentration on the new natural philosophy might lead to a certain intellectual arrogance . |
| 20 | He suggested , also , that an undue concentration on the new natural philosophy might lead to a certain intellectual arrogance . |
| 21 | Recent research work at the University of Ulster 's Centre for Research in Management suggests that poor transport links with the mainland could lead to a massive loss of business after 1993 as French companies capitalise on the Tunnel and move into British markets . |
| 22 | They should learn to use writing to facilitate their own thinking and learning , recognising that not all written work will lead to a polished , final product . |
| 23 | The Government can not avoid the simple truth — the rents demanded by landlords to persuade them to stay in letting are far beyond the means of the great majority of potential tenants … the 1988 Act will lead to a smaller not a larger sector . |
| 24 | Havelock hopes his England honour will lead to a memorable season . |
| 25 | I think the competition between the IoT and the Tax Faculty will lead to a better examination system for the IoT . |
| 26 | It is very unlikely that this change in income could lead to a greater budget than that which emerges when there is a lump-sum grant from the central government . |
| 27 | An improved diet may lead to a 15-20 per cent reduction . |
| 28 | This process may lead at a certain stage to the establishment of parties . " |
| 29 | Similarly , the catalogue user who specifies his query to correspond with a document title could be adopting a fixed or matching search approach , whereas a less defined query could lead to an open or contextual search approach . |
| 30 | And the latest move could lead to a further 1,500 jobs going among component suppliers . |