Example sentences of "it [vb -s] lead [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A research programme is better than a rival if it is more progressive , the progressive nature of a programme depending on its degree of coherence and the extent to which it has led to successful novel predictions , as discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 2 | In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention . |
| 3 | Although empirical research ( for example , Boaden , 1971 ) suggests ‘ that the financial relationship has [ not ] decreased the decision-making autonomy of individual authorities , it is generally believed in local government that it has led to increased , and increasing control over local government as a whole ’ ( Alexander 1982a , p. 148 ) . |
| 4 | This study compares the methods used to diagnose pyloric stenosis at Camperdown children 's hospital during two periods , 1974–7 and 1988–91 , to determine whether imaging is being used more frequently and whether it has led to earlier diagnosis and better management of pyloric stenosis . |
| 5 | This second collapse has produced a new trade union militancy and a growing influence of re-established or new socialist parties , but it has also engendered in several countries a fervent nationalism , so far most intense in Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union where it has led to military confrontations . |
| 6 | It has led to some funny situations , with irate daughters saying ‘ my mother would n't do a thing like that ! ’ . ’ |
| 7 | It has led on repeated occasions to a sense of being hemmed in , of which the doctrine of Lebensraum was the most extreme example . |
| 8 | The more literally this is interpreted the more it seems to lead into mechanistic , one-way formulations such as behaviourism . |