Example sentences of "lead [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Shawcross had agreed to lead for the Government in the debate on the compromise clause , the possibility of a damaging resignation receded . |
| 2 | Fashanu , included in the squad for today 's boxing day clash with Wimbledon 's Selhurst Park landlords , Crystal Palace , last night promised to lead from the front in the club 's fight against relegation . |
| 3 | If , for example , primary productivity in the region is limited by iron , and iron is becoming increasingly available , the iron stimulation would have to lead to a reduction in upper ocean nitrate and phosphate in the summer over the past 30 years . |
| 4 | A currency union is likely to lead to a reduction in member countries ' natural rate of unemployment . |
| 5 | Moreover , a cash supplement to income would also be expected to lead to a fall in work effort . |
| 6 | The Government 's reform of local authority finance is therefore likely to lead to a deterioration in local authority services , be they health , education or welfare . |
| 7 | In sum , any relaxation of marital constraints on women is likely to lead to a rise in the divorce-rate , whether these constraints are ones of tradition or custom or finance . |
| 8 | Christopher Huhne says that this ‘ would represent the lowest growth rate since 1981 and is almost certain to lead to a rise in unemployment ’ . |
| 9 | More recently some Universities and Polytechnics developed courses for ethnic minorities — but these when they were focused on developing multilingual skills were not intended to lead to a specialism in minority languages but simply to serve support strategies which fall far short of teaching the languages as such . |
| 10 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 11 | Is it fair to assume that , in this general election year , the right hon. and learned Gentleman expects the review to lead to a cut in the Government 's minimum standards for education facilities , designed to meet the requirements of the national curriculum ? |
| 12 | Mediation theory requires that X and Y be rather different from each other if the formation of A-X and B-Y associations is to lead to an increase in the discriminability of A and B. 1f X and Y are made more similar , the effect will be reduced ( the limiting case , when X and Y are identical , being that in which acquired equivalence is held to occur ) . |
| 13 | Thus the merger of Fiat/Lancia and Alfa would increase Fiat 's existing dominance of the Italian car market and be liable to lead to an increase in monopoly power . |
| 14 | Further , these purchases are expected to lead to an increase in the price of financial assets and a fall in their yields ( i.e. interest rates ) . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the prison population could be substantially reduced without creating a massive crime wave : if the numbers in prison were cut by 40 per cent , this could be expected to lead to an increase in criminal convictions of only 1.6 per cent . |
| 16 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | The combination of a new regulatory system and increased competition ought to lead to an increase in efficiency in the provision of financial services , although this still ignores the cost of the overall regulatory framework . |
| 18 | Although there are special fittings to allow washing machine waste pipes to be connected to the sink waste , the best way of plumbing in a washing machine is to make a permanent connection to the pipes in the kitchen for the water supply and to fit a stand pipe and trap leading through a hole in the outside wall for the waste pipe . |
| 19 | I recall leading for the Opposition in the early 1970s on the Fair Trading Act 1973 . |
| 20 | The heavily wooded area was criss-crossed with tracks , some leading to farm buildings , others leading to a barn in a clearing of corn , the whole scene , particularly at night , required vigilance as the enemy had mined the well-worn tracks . |
| 21 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
| 22 | In Section 12.7 there is a discussion of a number of factors which favour the use of short maturity contracts ( dividend risk , interest rate risk and mispricing risk ) for hedging , so leading to a rise in volume as delivery approaches . |
| 23 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 24 | Furthermore , if a fall in the pound coincided with a fall in interest rates , leading to a rise in investment and productivity to match current wage demands , this too would be anti-inflationary . |
| 25 | First , he examined the influence of predictable and unpredictable monetary growth on real output rather than unemployment : he found evidence here too that only the unpredictable component of monetary growth affected real output , a positive monetary surprise leading to a rise in output above its natural level . |
| 26 | Opinions vary as to whether more cautious and rational use of these drugs by general practitioners leading to a reduction in prescribing of tranquillizers and antidepressants would result in a decline in the number of suicide attempts ( Kreitman 1977 ) . |
| 27 | Strength and mobility of joints improves , and because the muscles need more energy , stored body fat is broken down and utilised , leading to a reduction in weight . |
| 28 | Officers were switched to specialist tasks leading to a reduction in police presence and visibility on the streets . |
| 29 | It was argued that the various combustion products such as soot , hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen , sulphate particles , and water vapour introduced directly into the stratosphere would , because of their long residence time ( months , years , decades ) , participate in photochemical reactions leading to a reduction in ozone concentration . |
| 30 | To say that the UK economy is at a crossroads suggests that it is a time for important decisions to be taken leading to a change in direction . |