Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] lead to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An international problem for many years , inflation is in part fuelled by governments printing money simply to maintain standards of living — unfortunately this technique has led to the undermining of the future prospects of the very people it was supposed to help . |
| 2 | Smallholder agriculture has led to the concentration of people being three times that that would support shifting cultivation in some areas . |
| 3 | But the demonstration that high levels of p53 are induced by DNA damage has led to the concept that p53 might be part of a damage-control pathway rather than the pathways that are at work in normal development . |
| 4 | This finding has led to the suggestion that the hepatocyte pallisade may represent a lineage system within which cells mature as they pass from a peri-bile ductular position ot mature perivenular hepatocytes . |
| 5 | Another route has led to the formation of bands of close relatives in which only a small number of adults breed and these are assisted by helpers that live communally with them in a group territory . |
| 6 | A recognition of the prominence being given to psalmody outside Morning and Evening Prayer has led to the provision of simpler substitutes for Anglican chant . |
| 7 | What has happened , he suggests , is that capitalism 's tendency to colonise and penetrate segments of social existence has led to the commercialisation and commodification of sexuality , particularly via the shift from production to consumption . |
| 8 | Brown demonstrates the extent to which the growth of research activities in this field has led to the emergence of improved cluster analytic methods for the multidimensional classification of people according to the type of area in which they live . |
| 9 | Deconstructivism has led to the recognition of what is valuable . |
| 10 | The development of a soluble cell-free system composed of minimal or core promoter DNA , RNA polymerase II , and protein factors in nuclear extract has led to the identification of basic transcription factors essential for specific and accurate initiation of transcription in vitro ( 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ) . |
| 11 | The analogy has led to the definition of a quantity ν T such that ν T is called the eddy viscosity . |
| 12 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 13 | Our research programme has led to the development of high-performance electrodes and poison resistant catalysts , both of which are critical factors in the development of a practical system . |
| 14 | This potency has led to the idea that endothelin-1 might play a pathophysiological role in circulatory disorder resulting ischaemic or haemorrhagic changes in various organs . |
| 15 | However , his action has led to the scrapping of After Dark , a ‘ show ’ which has nothing to recommend it . |
| 16 | This vast product-line combined with an ability to deliver quickly from stock has led to the supplying of thousands of satisfied professionals in research institutes , laboratories and chemical process industries worldwide . |
| 17 | Thus the lack of fundamental ecological knowledge has played a significant role in the shaping of these forests and lack of foresight has led to the demise , by deliberate poisoning and girdling , of many species which are now considered to be commercially viable . |
| 18 | The work has led to the development of a conceptual framework for a period which is both a phase and a process . |
| 19 | Their academic work has led to the formation of a specialist team bringing in colleagues from other disciplines including archaeologists and experts in dendrochronology ( dating by tree ring thickness ) . |
| 20 | PaT 's campaign for more vigorous enforcement of this law has led to the introduction of a Private Member 's Bill into the House of Commons which is now in the final stages of its passage through Parliament and will become law later in 1991 . |
| 21 | Has this led to the existence of " overseas dialects " of the Caribbean Creoles , in the same way that migration has led to the American , Canadian , Australian and other overseas dialects of English ? |
| 22 | The disclosure has led to the closure of the nursery -but the stock could only be sold for £26,246 because most growers had made their seasonal purchases . |
| 23 | The consortium has led to the creation of the Eureka 95 HD-MAC project . |
| 24 | In those countries where it prevails , Marxist absolutism has led to the suppression of individuality to the point where dissent and criticism are crimes against the State and punishable by imprisonment or by internal exile , or madness to be treated in mental hospitals ; where art and science must conform to the State 's perception of their supportive purposes ; where the measure of morality is no longer ‘ what if this day thy soul is required of thee ? ’ but ‘ does it serve the system ? ’ |
| 25 | The pressure of commercial competition for analytical business has led to the use of cheaper , less experienced staff . |
| 26 | Thatcher 's climbdown over the phenomenally unpopular community charge has led to the phenomenally complex council tax . |
| 27 | Early one Saturday morning , for example , we visit a woman whose behaviour has led to the evacuation of the other three people in her block of flats . |
| 28 | So too an answer is needed to the question of whether the failure to manage the transfer of information and the joint planning of a continuous four-year scheme between two different phases and organizations of education has led to the achievement of less than was hoped for , regardless of the fact that it has been very heavily funded . |
| 29 | Their rarity has led to the suggestion by Briscoe that the majority were made of a less durable material such as wood or even a soft stone such as chalk . |
| 30 | Consumer belief in " safer " bottled water has led to the quadrupling of sales over the last ten years . |