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

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1 This has led to the tying of aid to a large extent to inappropriate or unduly expensive goods from the donor 's country , to sharp annual variations in the volume of aid flows and to a lack of commitment to real coordination with other donors .
2 The special circumstances of territorial displacement and the withdrawal of adult supervision , which appear to have been more pronounced in Britain than in other parts of western Europe where the family is stronger as a recreational unit , have made the problem worse here than elsewhere ; this has led to the formation of the ‘ ends ’ which in turn has tended to attract a small fascist and psychotic fringe .
3 This has led to the legitimate graphic device of breaking the further line as it passes behind the near line .
4 His enthusiasm for this has led to the interpolation of several texts .
5 This has led to the speculation that these overweighted skulls led to the animal 's extinction , as a kind of anti-evolutionary regression .
6 This has led to the economists ' expectation that the outturn will be £32bn or more .
7 This has led to the claim that British merger policy has potentially represented a Charter for Conglomerates , although it should be noted that , as discussed in the next subsection , there has been a move away from diversification and conglomerates , especially after the Stock Market Crash of 1987 .
8 This has led to the suggestion that there was an eclipse of the sun .
9 This has led to the view that Bismarck 's real aim was to stifle Austro-Russian conflict by attaching Austria-Hungary to Germany , so that he could hold her back and prevent the two autocracies from mutual destruction .
10 This has led to the proposal that CaMKII can act as a form of molecular memory , recording the occurrence of a previous Ca 2+ transient .
11 In some cases this has led to the formation of unofficial cartels often with the tacit support of MITI , but the whole process has led to a ‘ systematic undoing of the American-inspired anti-monopoly legislation both in letter and spirit ’ ( Yamamura 1982 p.81 ) .
12 The site is only four miles from Corinium and this has led to the speculation that the establishment may have had a special function in a large estate .
13 Councillors differ in their attitude to their role and this has led to the development by political scientists of typologies to describe the variations .
14 This has led to the emergence of a number of commercial pen-based systems , such as PenWindows , Paragraph and PenPoint .
15 Sometimes , as in Chile in 1973 , this has led to the destruction of electoral democracy itself .
16 Arguably this has led to the break-up of the old trade union structures and increased management 's ability to obtain flexibility of labour .
17 Combined with the decline in the political influence of the great aristocracy this has led to the notion of a ‘ crisis of the nobility ’ .
18 This has led to the conceptualisation of older people from minority ethnic communities as being in ‘ double jeopardy ’ ( Dowd and Bengtson , 1978 ) .
19 In some cases this has led to the complete break up of production lines into autonomous circuits , each operated by teams of employees using their skills on a shared or flexible basis .
20 This has led to the practice of banks issuing ‘ rollover ’ CDs , i.e. six-month CDs with a guarantee of further renewal on specified terms .
21 This has led to the argument that there is no essential difference between debt and tax finance .
22 This has led to the development of Diagnostic Related Groups ( DRGs ) — a method of ‘ classifying inpatients into a manageable number of groups , which are both clinically meaningful and homogeneous in resource use ’ ( Culyer and Brazier , 1988 ) .
23 This has led to the suggestion that the fine structure is created from a series of lamellar crystals winding helically along the spherulite radius .
24 This has led to the suggestion that H pylori infection might decrease the sensitivity of parietal cells to gastrin , but other evidence did not support this view .
25 This has led to the concept of the motility index ( area under the time pressure curve ) to describe pressure activity .
26 This has led to the current move towards networked organisations .
27 This has led to the adoption of a wide range of contraceptive techniques including the use of oral contraceptives ( the biological origins of which are now eagerly sought by pharmaceutical companies ) .
28 Nevertheless , logged forests are fireprone and , in Borneo , this has led to the devastation discussed in Chapter 2 .
29 This has led to the regazetting of boundaries and the diminishing of reserves .
30 One of the other advantages of this scheme is that the student erm spends some months each year in the company , and in a number of cases in the past this has led to the student erm getting a job when he leaves .
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