Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growing materialism of the age led them to envisage the hereafter as the eternal ‘ Now ’ , and depict survival in terms of the senses . |
| 2 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 3 | It was perhaps their awareness of this , rather than their arrogance , which led them to emphasize the relationship so strongly after Edward IV 's death . |
| 4 | Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian . |
| 5 | I remember the elocution teacher was very keen on the modern plays that were being published then — and I know we worked on Pinter which actually led me to use the part of Mick in The Caretaker for my subsequent auditions in England for a place in drama school . |
| 6 | In my opinion in Ex parte Agegate Ltd. , the fact that the residence requirement was applicable to British citizens and nationals of other member states alike was the main element in the reasoning which led me to take the view , unlike the court , that that requirement was compatible with Community law : see para. 57 . |
| 7 | It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities . |
| 8 | Crossing in Force 9 winds led me to lament the absence of a grab-rail in the shower . |
| 9 | What led you to undertake the reinstallation , and what do you hope to accomplish ? |
| 10 | When you come out of role to reflect on what 's been going on your questions might include : " What led you to believe the carpenter was nervous/hiding something from us ? " |
| 11 | Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . |
| 12 | This is an important finding and leads me to question the enthusiasm and commitment that the National Blood Transfusion Service laboratories will bring to the provision of autologous blood throughout the country . |
| 13 | This leads them to see the organization as a well-defined unit and not as the heaving , changing mass with fluctuating boundaries that it really is . |
| 14 | Reason tells him he is mad to want to continue farming , but the desire to do so leads him to rationalise the decision as best he can . |
| 15 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 16 | Indeed , the explanation proposed by Givon actually leads him to distort the data in English to fit the " universally attested " semantic properties used as tools of analysis . |
| 17 | This same impulse leads him to recall the life of Harry Fonstein , a distant friend who miraculously escaped the Nazi holocaust , thanks to an underground operation masterminded by the Broadway impresario Billy Rose , or ‘ Bella Rosa ’ as his name sounds when whispered in excitable Italian . |
| 18 | He means ‘ sell ’ , but etiquette leads him to avoid the word . |
| 19 | Such a theory would seem to support the notion of two distinct orientations of dramatic playing and performing , but Stanislavsky 's theory of acting seems to embrace both modes , leading us to consider the model as dialectic , each mode containing the seed of its opposite . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , each leads us to expect the arms race which experience confirms . |
| 21 | This leads us to consider the meaning of unlawful discrimination . |
| 22 | This is undoubtedly an important exercise for it leads us to reconsider the validity of official criminal statistics and the more extreme pronouncements made directly and uncritically from them . |
| 23 | Oulton 's paintings may serve as a reminder that each looks out from different eyes with one 's own conception of what is real , thus the artist leads us to question the truth of our own vision . |
| 24 | Bertha Johnson 's conservatism , shown equally by her Unionist politics , her lifelong attachment to the flowing Liberty gowns fashionable in her youth , and her reluctance to see chaperonage rules relaxed , led her to resist the assimilation of women 's education to patterns developed for men . |
| 25 | Ultimately , this led her to challenge the way the professionals conceived Tom 's needs . |
| 26 | He further contends by ground ( 2 ) of his notice of appeal that the failure of the judge to perceive the limitations imposed on her discretion in the context of the Convention led her to reject the proposition that the elements necessary to the exercise of that discretion have to exist within the framework laid down by the Convention itself . |
| 27 | What led her to make the break ? |
| 28 | However , a reported ‘ practice run ’ led her to underestimate the speed of Derby horses ; she was struck , and died three days later of head injuries 8 June 1913 . |
| 29 | So this , in turn , led him to revise the laws of nature . |
| 30 | His dissatisfaction with aspects of the American political system even led him to explore the workings of the British government . |