Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] lead to the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Preoccupation with Cd values has led to the boring shapes we have become all too familiar with . ’
2 The increased importance of standardised informational support for both machines and operators has led to the concept of procedures as a separate design issue within a system ( Fig. 1.30 ) .
3 The application of the Treaty provisions to actual cases has led to the development of the following principles : Exhaustion of rights : where the right owner has put articles into circulation ( directly or with his consent ) he can not subsequently use his rights to prevent further dealings in respect of those articles .
4 The threat of targeting US-based British businesses for more taxes has led to the conclusion in some quarters that Clinton is less pro-free trade than his predecessor .
5 It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced .
6 The interpretation of these patterns has led to the following significant observations :
7 First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law .
8 RIGHT The collapse , levelling and rebuilding of mud brick houses has led to the formation of huge mounds in some parts of the world .
9 Certainly there have been cases after Alladice , including the one in which these remarks were made , where infraction of the rules has led to the resultant evidence being declared inadmissible .
10 It may be that it is those least disposed to commit suicide who join the cult in the first place , but at least the systematic comparison of variables has led to the question being raised .
11 At these times , the scarcity of employment opportunities has led to the view that older people should give up their jobs in order that younger people can benefit from the experience of work .
12 The complexity of information in many older printed books has led to the creation of special rules for their description .
13 The absence of a written constitution similar to that of the United States and other nations has led to the British Constitution being described as unwritten , but such a description is misleading .
14 Occasionally the medical benefit of this kind of research is questioned : in fact basic research on animals has led to the award since the beginning of the century of more than 50 Nobel Prizes for medicine .
15 Other considerations have led to the suggestion that introns could have been transferred horizontally between different species ( 13 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ) .
16 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 .
17 MR MAJOR raised the stakes in the final phase of the election campaign last night with a passionate warning that Labour and Liberal Democrat policies threatened to lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom .
18 Where the child does not reside in the area of a local authority it will be the authority in whose area any circumstances arose leading to the direction ( s37(5) ( b ) ) .
19 ‘ Perhaps those are sounds you could use in your own composition , ’ speculates the school 's head of music , Paul Chamberlain , whose quest for strange noises has led to the possibility of him poaching the National Curriculum 's science of sound course from Fartown 's physics department .
20 Here the convergence of the African and Eurasian Plates has led to the development of successive thrusts and nappes carrying huge masses of rock northwards towards the European foreland ( Fig. 3.19 ) .
21 With the station 's new information and visitors centre proving to be a great attraction , the increased numbers of visitors has led to the company employing an additional eight guides this year , he added .
22 In the past five to ten years general interest in the deep structure of fold belts has led to the publication of the results of a number of seismic reflection surveys from around the world which provide useful analogues .
23 Robert Milne , chief executive of the Scottish Fish Merchants ' Federation , dismissed as ‘ garbage ’ claims by fishermen that cheap foreign imports had led to the price slump and pointed the finger of blame firmly at British skippers .
24 Commencing in the sixteenth century , the intervention of successive parliaments has led to the present-day role of the district audit .
25 The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy .
26 Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures , involving more sophisticated techniques .
27 Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures , involving more sophisticated techniques .
28 The long-standing system of allocation of grants and the consequent competition for limited resources has led to the shift to obtaining funds from other sources .
29 It is a central thesis of this essay that the attempt to reconcile the enforcement of contracts with liberal principles has led to the formation of two dominant views of the content of the law of contract .
30 However , spatial query tools are intrinsically linked to the data model employed : hence the use of multiple spatial data structures has led to the proliferation of query processors .
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