Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] lead to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 2 | This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed . |
| 3 | Similarly , the finding that class size affects performance , and ancillary evidence on the rate of increase in the frequency of large classes , has directly led to the provision of additional purpose-built accommodation for large classes . |
| 4 | Networking has also led to the rise of ‘ client-server ’ designs , where ‘ client ’ terminals , such as PCs , are fed the answers to questions by ‘ server ’ data-stores . |
| 5 | The chaotic policy of subsidies has also led to the scandal of vast food mountains which taxpayers have to foot the bill to store — and which are then dumped at cut price on the world market . |
| 6 | The incident has also led to the replacement of the Minister 's deputy . |
| 7 | It has also led to the emergence of a handful of multi-dimensional spreadsheet products , which can typically hold data in up to 12 dimensions instead of the usual two or three , and let you ‘ slice and dice ’ the view of the information along these different dimensions . |
| 8 | The summit has also led to the Community strengthening its environmental policy and additional emphasis has been given to industry , the creation of trans-European networks and consumer protection . |
| 9 | They cautioned against an obsession with modern communication technology which has often led to the marginalisation of many in rural communities . |
| 10 | Many psychiatric units now have no lockable wards at all and while this may be admirable for most in-patients , it has inevitably led to the rejection of mentally disordered offenders who require a modest degree of security and who could benefit from assessment and treatment in an ordinary hospital . |
| 11 | Because the dower is always settled on the bride and her family either in kind or in cash or both , it has inevitably led to the stigma of ‘ selling and buying ’ , to stories of a girl going to the highest bidder . |
| 12 | The search for animals which can identify kin has now led to the discovery that honey bees discriminate between full and half sisters . |
| 13 | This is rather a subjective approach , and has sometimes led to the situation where the same eruption has been given a different label by different observers . |
| 14 | This has undoubtedly led to the enrichment of specific rural and urban groups in the Third World , those who have successfully adapted to the changing demands of the global marketplace , but it has also resulted in many Third World countries losing their original self-sufficiency in food and becoming highly dependent on food imports from the First World . |
| 15 | The apartheid system has historically led to the disintegration of family and kin structures , but has not replaced it with anything else . |
| 16 | This discovery has recently led to the development of a system for measuring the heart-rate of the human foetus before and during labour in women about to give birth . |
| 17 | In the upland areas the introduction of the wages boards also led to the decline of hiring fairs and the gradual discontinuance of the practice of ‘ living in ’ . |
| 18 | In other words , the doctrine of the internality of relations together with the thesis of the independence of substance seems logically to lead to the position of ontological monism ; conversely , the monist thesis seems necessarily to presuppose the thesis of the internality of relations . |
| 19 | That Asian children are teased about their food may not seem very important in itself , but it does rather lead to the thought — if people eat food which is thought of as disgusting and unclean what are these people like ? |