Example sentences of "[adv] lead [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a series of related allegations eventually led to a High Court libel action involving Docherty and two of Manchester United 's most prominent players , Denis Law and Willie Morgan , who perhaps predictably were both Scots . |
| 2 | If intellectualism only leads to a cultivated despair or a hankering after dictatorship , then it is time to give ordinary intelligence a chance . |
| 3 | ‘ We are n't interested in quoting prices over the phone , because that only leads to a Dutch auction . |
| 4 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 5 | Thus , the imposition of these preconceptions on the object of study necessarily leads to a distorted view of the history of a language . |
| 6 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 7 | This can only lead to a partial picture where lenders try to succeed within their own parameters , without all the facts on the likely borrower . |
| 8 | With a very shallow L curve ( as in Figure 18.3 ) , a rise in money supply from M to M' will only lead to a small fall in the rate of interest from r 1 to r 2 . |
| 9 | ‘ Halliwell said that these sexual experiments can only lead to a dead end . |
| 10 | Saturday 's name change was the sixth this century , and the previous alterations did not necessarily lead to a radical renewal . |
| 11 | It has been rightly pointed out that a quick ball from such a scrum does not necessarily lead to a running game and that the centre of the field , already bustling with activity due to the increased fitness and range of the modern player , would be clogged up with roaming loose forwards relieved of scrummage duties . |
| 12 | The business that is not being purposefully led in a clear direction which is understood by its people is not going to survive , and all of history shows that that is the case . |
| 13 | Keynes might well have disapproved of the ‘ Keynesianism , of the postwar politicians , but runaway inflation nevertheless led to a successful monetarist assault on Keynesian theory . |
| 14 | Should treatment be withheld and the available donor organs donated to ‘ more suitable ’ patients or should such ill patients be actively treated while waiting for a suitable donor organ , thus leading to a potential increase in the number of stable patients likely to deteriorate while awaiting ‘ elective ’ transplantation ? |
| 15 | A bad swing can easily lead to a serious ground loop or even to cart-wheeling and a broken glider . |
| 16 | This can easily lead to a straightforward identification of Germany with Europe . |
| 17 | In contrast to 1956 , when Khruschev 's call for reform in the East had soon led to a Soviet clampdown , Gorbachev 's desire for change included an acceptance of political pluralism . |
| 18 | Murdoch 's motivation was simply profit , and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists . |
| 19 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 20 | Such deliberations on subject scope will normally lead to a preliminary list of significant ( especially the more general ) terms , with these terms collected into groups that reflect the relationships between them . |
| 21 | In the novel , however , Marcel finds that this exploration mostly leads to a dead end , since the conscious effort of remembering , which is after all an effort of mind and will , is something which at best yields only a lifeless image of the past . |
| 22 | Still compulsive viewing after all these years , the story tells of a sexual attraction between alluring femme fatale Matty ( Kathleen Turner ) and sleazy lawyer Ned ( Hurt ) which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion . |
| 23 | The evening takes wing in the touching performances of Michael Maloney and Saskia Reeves as her betrayal eventually leads to a fine deathbed reconciliation scene . |
| 24 | But between 1850 and 1890 even Austro-Hungary , Norway and Ireland urbanised at this rate , Belgium and the United States at between 0.30 and 0.40 , Prussia , Australia and Argentina at between 0.40 and 0.50 , England and Wales ( still leading by a short head ) and Saxony at over 0.50 per annum . |
| 25 | Combining these statistically leads to a five-point scale , which 1 indicating a negative Z-Score company with low probability of immediate distress , and 5 ( as in the case of MCC ) a company usually beyond saving in its present form . |
| 26 | There are eight options on the colour pattern menu and , as with the shaping section , selecting any of these will usually lead to a sub menu . |
| 27 | White 's quiet opening may still lead to a slight edge for him if Black permits e4 . |
| 28 | It also led to a fundamental questioning of the whole basis of the Keynesian model of which , since 1958 , the Phillips curve had come to be regarded as an indispensable part . |
| 29 | It also led to a marked inflation of the number of high-ranking officers . |
| 30 | Practolol and benoxaprofen show , however , that such a cosy partnership not only can not stand the strain of a disaster , but also leads to a complete paralysis of action in the resultant crisis . |