Example sentences of "[that] leads [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 2 | Several lobules of small tubuloacinar glands drain into a common duct that leads to the surface of the squamous epithelium , and with histological techniques , use of acid toluidine blue has identified irregular longitudinal rows of ductal ostia in the human oesophagus . |
| 3 | We can continue to gain services at a price that leads to the exploitation of some fellow citizens , whether they work in the private sector , such as in hotels , or in the public sector , as in the health services . |
| 4 | Other factors identified by Jahoda and Warr as important for health may , however , be provided by workfare : these include a time structure to the day , social contacts outside the family , a sense of doing things with others , regularity , and ‘ traction ’ ( the quality that leads to the maxim ‘ If you want something done quickly ask a busy person ’ ) . |
| 5 | This time I at least got past the lochan and up on to the boulder field that leads to the window . |
| 6 | Jacob can go with you , and show you the old coach road that leads to the signpost . |
| 7 | It is the combination of different characteristics , strengths and weaknesses that leads to the development of the pupil 's unique personality , and in common with other children , those with visual handicaps will show a range of character , ability and adjustment . |
| 8 | A single dose of 18 Gy of 250 kV x rays induces an ulcer tendency that leads to the development of ulcers in the proximal duodenum in around 45% of animals by day 9 . |
| 9 | Ahead I could see the rest of my party plodding towards the final slope that leads to the west ( main ) summit . |
| 10 | Thus , it is the sequential rather than the simultaneous arrival of information that leads to the prediction of a positive relationship between volume and volatility . |
| 11 | This initial fragmentation is one of the essential processes that leads to the conversion of sterile rock into fertile soil . |
| 12 | In ordinary cars the higher temperature is produced by having a higher compression ratio and one is used to having high performance cars which have a high compression ratio and need special grades of petrol to avoid knocking and pinking and other effects detrimental to the car , and of course that leads to the need for lead to be added to petrol to stop knocking . |
| 13 | Recently , a non-oxidative pathway of alcohol metabolism that leads to the production of fatty acid ethyl esters ( FAEEs ) has been described , catalysed FAEE synthase . |
| 14 | It is this that leads to the dependency culture predominant among deaf people in integrated education . |
| 15 | It 's not a hard walk up the spur that leads to the summit , and the lust to be able to see far into the rough bounds of Knoydart hiding behind Sgurr Thuilm will motivate even the most indolent hiker . |
| 16 | Michelangelo designed the ceremonial ramp and staircase that leads to the summit . ’ |
| 17 | The path that leads to the world 's highest mountain is full of adventures … full of famous stories … but there 's been nothing so grand and gallant as the expedition being planned by Macintyre of Milton Keynes … who cater and care for the mentally disabled … |
| 18 | Most people look downwards as they negotiate the pot-holed road that leads into the village of Perteguhan in North Sumatra . |
| 19 | Above : The Silent Valley , a man-made reservoir that leads into the heart of the Mournes . |
| 20 | A photograph of an older daughter of the family , then a student , had been taken in the small conservatory that leads into the house . |
| 21 | If you ask somebody what 's the explanation for a fact you may have noticed if you walked down the Strand here just from the School , if you 're observant , I 'm sure you 've , you 've all instantly noticed as you walked by , that Strand Street , which is a short street that , sorry , I 'm , Savoy Street , which is a short street that leads off the Strand into the Savoy Hotel , is an exception to the rule , that in England you drive on the left , because in Stra in Savoy Street , you drive on the right . |
| 22 | In the Dante Room that leads off the Bedroom ( which contains a collection of early Murano glass ) is a magnificent stained-glass windows by Giuseppe Bertini , dating from the mid-nineteenth-century . |
| 23 | The most dangerous aspect of rock ‘ n ’ roll has always been to succumb to the mythical lifestyle that leads down the path of destruction . |
| 24 | Control of protein synthesis can occur at several different points in the sequence of steps that leads from the DNA code to a fully formed protein . |