Example sentences of "[vb -s] led [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the much greater availability of illegal drugs has led to a phenomenal growth in drug offences . |
| 2 | A CHANCE meeting at 's 1989 Summer Fayre has led to a lasting romance for 's stock controller and from in France who has since moved to England to continue the relationship . |
| 3 | The mixture of environments in the coastal areas of the World has led to a rich variety of life . |
| 4 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Erm that factor has enhanced its value for agriculture and intensification has led to a wholesale loss of features . |
| 6 | This has led to a strong marketing campaign for the concept of disposable lenses , which are replaced monthly , weekly or even ( in principle ) daily . |
| 7 | Some years later , Crook and Elliot ( 1980 ) conducted a similar review and came to similar conclusions , suggesting that social class is a confounding variable that has led to a spurious association in some studies between loss and depression . |
| 8 | The potentially large amount of information now available in cross-section surveys has led to a recent explosion in applied economic studies using these data sources . |
| 9 | However , Mr Kane is in no doubt about its value to the organisation : ‘ Working towards the award has led to a noticeable increase in staff motivation and morale . |
| 10 | This has led to a changing ratio between service sector and industrial workers , in the same way that the number of industrial workers earlier overtook the number of workers on the land ( Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 11 | International interest in the sue of the plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel has led to a joint venture with BNFL . |
| 12 | However , the fact that many new systems use relational database storage for spatial and non-spatial data has led to a wide interest in the adaptation of the structured query language ( SQL ) for spatially-related query operations in GIS . |
| 13 | The group 's recent research has led to a general policy optimization framework for large macroeconomic models . |
| 14 | The poll tax has wasted £14 billion of taxpayers ' money , led to cuts in services and jobs , caused great hardship for thousands of people , and has led to a general breakdown in law and order . |
| 15 | The more obvious uses to which the coin was put , the contexts in which they are found and their distribution has led to a general belief that they were not used as currency in commercial transactions ; rather , they were valued as bullion . |
| 16 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 17 | Scientific method , using experiment and reasoning , has led to a marvellous extension of knowledge . |
| 18 | The integration of staff for training has led to a good exchange of ideas , greater enthusiasm , and higher staff morale . |
| 19 | Much research and attention to artists ' requirements has led to a new breed of synthetic brushes which are highly appropriate for use with acrylics , among other uses , which hold their shape well over a long period of time , are delightfully responsive to use , are superbly controllable , allowing precision work , and are durable enough to resist occasional misuse . |
| 20 | The recognition that , given appropriate opportunities , time , and carefully devised teaching strategies , even people with very severe learning difficulties can make progress has led to a new commitment . |
| 21 | This has led to a new lease of life for the old concept of ‘ labour aristocracy ’ and it has been attached to the workers who have these jobs , in comparison with the workers in the informal or the indigenous sectors ( see Lloyd , 1982 ; Boyd et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | A newspaper survey has found that concern about the environment has led to a sharp rise in members of environmental organisations over the 1980's . |
| 23 | This concentration , upon the value aspects , can be misleading , and in fact has led to a certain neglect by many Marxists of the material , use-value , aspects of reproduction and the centrality of this use-value in the reproduction schema . |
| 24 | X-PLOR and Hendrickson-Konnert least-squares restrained refinement has led to a final R -factor of 18.7% at 2.4Å , with an r.m.s. bond-length deviation of 0.021Å . |
| 25 | Elsewhere in south-east Asia , over-use of pesticides has led to a devastating resurgence of pests by destroying the pests ' natural predators . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The deregulation of long-distance coach services has led to a major expansion in reliable and cheap services . |
| 28 | The long-term trend towards greater equality of income and wealth has been reversed under the Conservative governments of 1979 onwards and it is argued that this ‘ strategy of inequality ’ ( Child Poverty Action Group ) , which is seen as a direct consequence of the drive towards popular capitalism , has led to a major increase in poverty in the UK and to the possible emergence of an underclass , who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture . |
| 29 | The deregulation of buses has led to a great diminution in the service , especially at weekends and at night when people in rural and city areas feel isolated . |
| 30 | Over the last few years , the impact of new technology on the printing industry has led to a great diversification of products and services offered by many printers , and this includes the quick print and copy outlets . |