Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] lead to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That of the southern European states led to the establishment of commonplace majority voting , as enshrined in the Single European Act . |
| 2 | ( ii ) Can different rules lead to the same function ? |
| 3 | Article 62 of the constitution forbids ‘ organised activities leading to the perpetration of particularly serious state crimes and participation in an anti-government organisation ’ . |
| 4 | In social research , perhaps the most famous example is that of Elton Mayo 's study of American girls in a factory , where his observations of the importance of the creation of social groups led to the development of a whole school of thought in social psychology . |
| 5 | Following the learning curve of the exhibition hall , this project will await the gathering of a substantial fund , up to 1993 , and then move into a step-by-step series of achievable and self-contained goals leading to the completion of the overall project . |
| 6 | A similar willingness to perform radical treatment for breast cancer in the absence of evidence from randomised trials led to the misguided mutilation of thousands of women by radical mastectomy . |
| 7 | Negotiations with other Anglican Franciscan orders led to the formation of the Society of St Francis ( 1936 ) , and Father Algy moved to Cerne Abbes in Dorset to take charge of the Home of St Francis at Hilfield , where Brother Douglas Downes had established a brotherhood for work among tramps in 1921 . |
| 8 | Failing to satisfy the sense of justice of these different audiences leads to the alarming visible ‘ symptoms ’ of the crisis : political problems , industrial relations problems , malaise among prison and probation staff , and disorder amongst prisoners . |
| 9 | They moved through to the drawing room and Alice Mair opened the french windows leading to the patio . |
| 10 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 11 | High prices led to the severe depletion of wild mink , marten , river otter , and beaver populations , and ranch-bred fur came into its own . |
| 12 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 13 | The examination of the performance of standard in-rack systems led to the realisation that systems giving a much quicker and better-directed response to fire were necessary if the performance requirements of section 6.3 were to be met . |
| 14 | Together with the data from the transits of Mercury , this re-interpretation of the old records led to the conclusion that the maximum extent of any change on the Sun 's radius since 1850 was no more than a decline of 0.08 seconds of arc per century , with a possible error range of plus or minus 0.07 . |
| 15 | The White Paper programme introduced a fundamental policy change to expedite and implement the removal of technical barriers leading to the ‘ harmonisation ’ of standards . |
| 16 | This homology along with the finding that the genetically obese Zucker rat ( fa/fa ) , in which obesity is characterised by profound hyperphagia , have a 60% reduction in their fasting pancreatic procolipase content compared with normal rats lead to the suggestion that the peptide might have a possible physiological role in appetite regulation . |
| 17 | By the end of the academic year 1981–2 a total of sixteen main independent centres for the provision of two-year part-time programmes leading to the Certificate in Education ( FE ) had been validated by the CNAA . |
| 18 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 19 | On April 1 , 1990 , pressure from US and Canadian companies led to the implementation a year sooner than originally scheduled of tariff cuts worth a total of about Can . |
| 20 | The civilian government was deposed in a military coup in January 1966 ; ethnic tensions led to the Biafra secession and civil war ( 1967-70 ) . |
| 21 | The success of PRL in its early years led to the expansion of its activities , with the construction of pilot plant and production facilities enabling the company to offer a complete service from laboratory research , through pilot plant development and the production of intermediate quantities of material to large-scale commercial manufacture . |
| 22 | Similar fears led to the construction across Pevensey Levels and eastwards of the Martello Towers ( an anglicisation of the Italian ‘ Mortella ’ ) . |
| 23 | In 1945 , the Miles Aircraft Company was developing a supersonic experimental aircraft , the M 52 , but lack of basic data on supersonic conditions led to the decision in 1948 not to risk a pilot 's life flying it until more was known about the compressibility of air , or the sound barrier . |
| 24 | During this period students may opt to undertake placement-related studies leading to the award of the additional qualification of Diploma in Industrial Studies , thus further integrating their academic and applied knowledge and enhancing their career prospects . |
| 25 | During this period , students may decide to undertake placement-related studies leading to the award of the Diploma in Industrial Studies , thus further integrating their academic and applied knowledge as well as enhancing their career prospects . |
| 26 | In the attempt to match the above criteria , there are two fundamentally distinct avenues leading to the construction of the schedules of a classification scheme . |
| 27 | This has led to the speculation that these overweighted skulls led to the animal 's extinction , as a kind of anti-evolutionary regression . |
| 28 | The very next morning , German forces invaded Holland and Belgium , bypassing the French Maginot Line and a succession of Allied defeats led to the withdrawal of the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk , with a considerable loss of equipment . |
| 29 | Pressures for more and better housing for the working classes led to the introduction of a succession of unsuccessful Bills into Parliament from 1901 . |
| 30 | The very opposite considerations lead to the success of businesses where intense customer contact is the basis of commerce . |