Example sentences of "has led [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elevation of environmental concerns in the social consciousness has raised the profile of environmental protection and has led to international agreements specifically concerned with the environment , such as the Montreal protocol on the ozone layer . |
| 2 | Its use has led to real benefits for the group |
| 3 | Meanwhile the popularity of Yardie amongst jail birds has led to certain elements deciding that the book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking , and Victor Headley has disappeared into hiding to work on Yardie 2 , leaving Adebayo and Pope to speak on his behalf . |
| 4 | More competition on the roads and in the air has led to better services and more choice . |
| 5 | In the private sector a large number of estate agents , landlords , accommodation agencies and building societies have been found to operate discriminatory registers , refusing to let or sell or lend to black individuals and families , while direct and indirect discrimination in many local authority housing departments has led to black tenants being allocated inferior council housing ( Gordon and Newnham , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention . |
| 7 | A century of saving seed from the best plants has led to continuous improvements . |
| 8 | Much of this work on animals was done in Oxford and has led to radical improvements in the transplantation of kidney , liver , bone-marrow and hearts in human patients who would otherwise have died . |
| 9 | PANAMA is the latest in a series of rogue regimes , the menacing state of whose internal affairs has led to armed intervention by other countries — and to an unresolved international tangle about the legality of such action . |
| 10 | This in turn has led to increasing Government interference in matters relating to both the organisation and professional functions of medical groups . |
| 11 | Population pressure on land has led to increasing competition of less sensitive rotations which maximise the production of food crops with beneficial rotations which include nitrogen-fixing crops and forage crops . |
| 12 | The economic boom in the south east has led to increasing demands for new types of industrial site , and the growth in high tech and service industries has placed a premium on high quality sites in pleasant surroundings and with good communications . |
| 13 | This more frequent application , especially of a compound like malathion which has an unpleasant odour , has led to increasing refusals from householders and a consequent reduction in insecticide coverage . |
| 14 | The success of this fairly new treatment has led to increasing numbers of terminally ill patients being referred for consideration of transplantation , many of these being referred as a final option , when intensive support in hospital is required and when secondary end organ damage has often developed . |
| 15 | As a result , market intelligence is limited , and has led to contradictory stances being adopted by different companies . |
| 16 | Quantal analysis of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus has proved difficult and has led to contradictory conclusions when applied to long-term potentiation . |
| 17 | The debate is important and has led to keen observations being made on both sides of the House . |
| 18 | And this type of stereotypical link has led to various experiments . |
| 19 | While in many ways the UK system is a homogeneous one , with centralized application procedures , common though varying admissions requirements , and a national system of student support through grants and now loans , its often decentralized and pragmatic mode of development has led to great variation in detail . |
| 20 | Its development has led to great advances in the miniaturisation of electronic components . |
| 21 | This discovery has led to much speculation about how birds use this phenomenal ability . |
| 22 | I wish to say on behalf of highway engineers , both in the counties and the boroughs of the metropolitan districts , that their contribution through their professional associations — the Institution of Civil Engineers , the Institution of Highways and Transportation — and in co-operation with the experts in the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and the Department of Transport has led to much enthusiasm among many of those responsible . |
| 23 | Bus deregulation in other parts of the country has led to much innovation in the bus industry and to a 19 per cent . |
| 24 | Turning to the company cases , the dictum in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 has led to much confusion and complication where those in de facto control of the company have been charged with theft from it . |
| 25 | The inference of user information needs from user information-seeking behaviour has led to much confusion . |
| 26 | Recent focus upon the cost of this treatment ( £2,500 per patient per year ; ) has led to much debate concerning the appropriate use of limited resources for such experimental therapies . |
| 27 | This has led to embarrassing moments among his pure-white mobile guard force . |
| 28 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 29 | Now although evolutionary research can lead and indeed has led to major breakthroughs , it is so unlikely that it would not be sensible to concentrate on this type of research , for which in any case there are many potential sources of funds . |
| 30 | The rush of visitors to the area since the popular romanticism of the " Lakeland poets " has led to major changes in the micro-organisms and the deposition of their remains , due largely to the effects of human effluent . |