Example sentences of "[vb base] led [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 This implies that short selling difficulties have led to a widening of the no-arbitrage band by permitting greater underpricings .
2 Attempts to highlight and remove differing forms of sexism , sexual inequalities and discrimination in schools have led to a range of policy statements and strategies from local education authorities and individual schools .
3 Such experiences have led to a lack of confidence in the possibility of resolving problems .
4 The uncertainties and frustration caused by multiple restructuring arising out of a process of frequent and sometimes inconsistent peer review exercises have led to a lack of cohesion in research objectives , low staff morale , and low scientific output ( in terms of papers ) .
5 The evolution of the role of teachers and the view of the social purpose of schools have led to a multiplicity of demands on teachers which are not necessarily compatible and may be contradictory , if not actually mutually exclusive .
6 The data examined in this study give a consistent picture of behaviour changes among homosexual men which have led to a continuance of HIV transmission in this group in England and Wales .
7 No , television advertising of beer should be stopped because the regulations surrounding it ( do n't show excessive drinking , do n't associate drinking with social or sexual success , do n't even hint that people might enjoy the sensation of being just a little bit , no , do n't even say the word , drunk ) have led to a series of creative executions that wander around aimlessly avoiding the subject of beer altogether , until the very end when they name it , or maybe not .
8 This view of economic change did not go unchallenged at that time , however ( Kumar , 1978 ) , but the events of the early 1980s have led to a renewal of interest in the post-industrial thesis .
9 Although population pressure is the most common attribute of these peasantries and pastoralists , there are many cases where declines in population through outmigration or apocalyptic disasters ( e.g. Latin America during and after the Spanish Conquest , Boserup 1965 : 62–63 ) have led to a coarsening of agricultural technology , a labour-saving cropping pattern , and an allocation of labour which can encourage soil erosion ( e.g. Bunyard 1980 for Palestine ) .
10 These grants have encouraged changes in hill farming which have led to a loss of semi-natural vegetation , traditional farm woodland and field boundaries , and have been offset by increases in commercial forestry , and cultivated crops and grass .
11 Some countries , such as Mexico and Chile , have gone through periods of quite radical change , only to be followed by changing political conditions , which have led to a reversal of policy .
12 It is the high stakes , no doubt , allied to the frustration of failing to achieve personal ambitions , which have led to a number of outbreaks this season on the professional Tours .
13 The rate of change and the lack of sincere consultation have led to an air of defeatism and concern which is frequently summed up in the analogy that they ( the government ) keep moving the goalposts .
14 The current clampdown on drinking and driving has allowed people without embarrassment to ask for soft drinks at functions and market forces have led to an influx of low-alcohol wines and beers .
15 Unemployment , the collapse of the housing market and changes in population trends have led to an erosion of famous traits .
16 That may change ; for , in recent years , developments in banking and commercial circles have led to the invention of a remarkable array of new and highly sophisticated types of ‘ securitised ’ loan investments as a result of which finance , which would formerly have been raised by a straightforward bank loan ( for most purposes not a debenture ) may be obtained through the issue of instruments , some of which for most purposes unquestionably are debentures and others of which may or may not be .
17 The pressures to publish in science have led to the publication of series of fragmentary reports on research ( Abelson 1 ) and to the production of new journals to contain such reports , which have been termed the ‘ least publishable units ’ .
18 The pressures to publish in science have led to the publication of series of fragmentary reports on research ( Abelson ) and to the production of new journals to contain such reports , which have been termed the ‘ least publishable units ’ .
19 Transfection experiments have led to the identification of cis -acting IL-6 responsive elements ( IL-6REs ) in the promoter of three prototypical AP responsive genes ( those encoding C-reactive protein ( CRP ) , hemopexin ( Hpx ) and haptoglobin ( Hp ) ( 19–21 ) .
20 Advances in this area have led to the development of more realistic script recognition systems .
21 Recent insights into the pharmacology and component properties of sulphasalazine have led to the development of a new generation of drugs based on mesalazine ( 5-aminosalicylic acid , 5-ASA ) .
22 Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million .
23 Ironically , with its determined attempt to restructure the British economy at the expense of the working class , and by taking such a hard line on scroungers and loungers , the Conservative Government has created the very social conditions which have led to the intensification of the very crime wave it was elected to end .
24 Many countries have an offence of ‘ abuse of authority ’ to differentiate these crimes , in accord with the principle of fair labelling ( Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) , but anxieties about the problem of listing the types of authority ( should it include persons undertaking voluntary responsibility , such as choirmasters and youth-club leaders ? ) have led to the continuation of the pragmatic all-encompassing provisions in England and Wales .
25 These serious problems have led to the concept of integrated pest management ( IPM ) which does not rely solely on pesticides .
26 This is particularly likely to occur for larger cities with very limited amounts of vacant land and in rural areas where environmental and other considerations have led to the imposition of strict controls on new building .
27 Meanwhile , disagreements between ministers have led to the shelving of a detailed reallocation of environmental responsibilities .
28 It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines .
29 These developments have led to the encroachment of examinations into Thursday and Friday of week 10 but , nevertheless , over 7,600 examination places were administered by the examinations office over an eight-day period in July 1988 .
30 None the less there has been a quite open policy of dispersal as cutbacks have led to the closing of bases at home and abroad .
  Next page