Example sentences of "lead [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-four black militant organisations were subjected to ‘ tax surveillance ’ as part of International Revenue Service ( IRS ) harassment , and FBI agents placed bogus documents into the hands of Panther members which led them to suspect each other of being police informants ( McAdam and Moore , 1989:281 ) . |
| 2 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 3 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 4 | It led me to ponder two questions . |
| 5 | Nothing had happened to sour their relationship or to lead her to have negative feelings about him . |
| 6 | This leads me to analyse political behaviour , especially as it relates to conflict . |
| 7 | Such misbehaviour of strata in their most classic sections leads me to have serious doubts ( in fact , positive hatred ) of the concept of the " stratotype " so much favoured by many continental workers . |
| 8 | Well I do n't think it 'll be a good idea at all because my no my knowledge of tin foil leads me to believe that tin foil wrapped on tin foil falls off . |
| 9 | The emergence of new programmes in the same specialty leads me to make two comments . |
| 10 | They are a source of great uncertainty and insecurity that leads them to have more children than they would otherwise . |
| 11 | But their definition of the female subject as a biological or cultural essence leads them to pursue this ambiguity much less than egalitarian feminists . |
| 12 | The danger is that the pressure to reach target leads you to exaggerate chargeable hours . |
| 13 | Their steepness leads one to infer modern erosion due to their great exposure , but there is no wavecut bench to indicate any erosion . |
| 14 | But the necessity of maintaining a psychological theory leads her to reify non-verbal communication somewhat . |
| 15 | His entire book is devoted to ways of improving the proportion of the ink that is devoted to conveying aspects of the data , and of erasing chartjunk ; this leads him to suggest some simplification of boxplots , for example . |
| 16 | Neumann 's hanging on to a limited and personalized notion of what constitutes an Allegretto leads him to assume many things for which there is little foundation . |
| 17 | Tenascin mRNA from human , mouse , and chicken are highly homologous , leading us to speculate that human AD1 related repeats may be present in mouse and chicken tenascin genes . |
| 18 | That leads us to examine Wittgensteinian ideas of action and meaning , and to consider a very different notion of a ‘ game ’ in social life , where the actors are players of roles . |
| 19 | This then leads us to explore ultimate happiness in God 's own being . |
| 20 | The Times Educational Supplement applauded the increased use of intelligence tests and deplored the existing exams : ‘ Some day our successors may come to marvel at the degree of assurance which leads us to think that ability to profit can be predicted thus . |
| 21 | A moment 's thought led her to reject this course of action . |
| 22 | It led him to spend endless hours in the House of Commons , far more than any Prime Minister for many years before , far more than any of his successors . |
| 23 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 24 | Drafted in March 1949 , the article never emerged beyond a few notes , mainly about Brideshead itself , though the task led him to reread all Waugh 's early works , including his biographies , and it was evidently one the dying man approached with enthusiasm . |
| 25 | His fundamentalist outlook led him to destroy Hindu temples across the empire . |
| 26 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 27 | Between 1916 and 1927 his quest for intellectual and emotional stability led him to examine another solution : bourgeois culture and bourgeois education . |
| 28 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |
| 29 | The young veteran Ronald Ridenhour , whose conscience first led him to question former comrades , was racked by horror at discovering the crimes his friends had committed but felt no fear of official reprisal when he wrote to 30 Congressmen . |
| 30 | The social and cultural conditions under which Marryat and his successors have written , even up to the present , have led them to explore individual personality mainly in terms of officers and warrant officers rather than members of the lower deck . |