Example sentences of "[vb past] lead to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some things I found led to moments of great distress , as evidence ( which I was subsequently able to disprove ) suggested the strong possibility of his having been executed by the enemy . |
| 2 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 3 | This was a real benefit , and helps to explain why so many medieval campaigns rapidly declined into a series of fruitless sieges and failed to lead to any deep penetration of enemy territory . |
| 4 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 5 | The importance of livestock on the farms surveyed led to many farmers being less confident in machinery work . |
| 6 | One thing just seemed to lead to another , and maybe 1 said more than I should have done . |
| 7 | Either of these looked like a possibility and both were tried : but whichever course was being followed seemed to lead to closer and closer involvement . |
| 8 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 9 | ‘ I stopped occasionally to photograph a design branded upon a distant hillside made up of countless squat semi-circular walls protecting a meagre crop ; or limp onion plants resemblant of hieroglyphs upon a furrowed wall ; or a track which seemed to lead to only more emptiness ’ |
| 10 | Another issue which seemed to lead to few concrete proposals was language across the curriculum , where the school was also criticized for having few clear policies . |
| 11 | They arrived at the bottom of a winding cliff path which seemed to lead to the fortress and the forest on the land above to the open land where a strange , timeless battle was being fought beneath the dusk sky . |
| 12 | Where the child does not reside in the area of a local authority it will be the authority in whose area any circumstances arose leading to the direction ( s37(5) ( b ) ) . |
| 13 | As we have seen , growing dissatisfaction in the 1970s with the arrangements under which public sector higher education was managed and financed led to the establishment , in March 1977 , of the Oakes Committee , under the chairmanship of Gordon Oakes , the then Minister of State at the DES . |
| 14 | Petion caught up with Mortimer just as the Marines reached the wider tunnel , into one side of which was set a pair of doors which Benny 's description indicated led to the dock . |
| 15 | The two years of intensive guerilla war that followed led to a Truce in July , 1921 . |
| 16 | After half a year of their affair , she 'd begun to wonder , wallowing in his affection , how a man whose history had been one infidelity after another had mended his ways ; which thought led to the possibility that perhaps he had n't . |
| 17 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 18 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 19 | Even if it did lead to danger , as the signpost clearly said , she was determined to follow it , even though she was scared . |
| 20 | Mink keeping in the past did lead to the temporary establishment of wild mink — the escape occurred at Womdale , in Shetland when the winds blew a hut through the farmer 's perimeter fence , liberating a number of unmated female mink . |
| 21 | The latter did lead to the establishment of classes for deaf children , but because the provision of this education was not compulsory , many local school boards evaded their responsibilities and pleaded poverty . |
| 22 | The imminence of the general election , now impinging on all aspects of political life , did lead to a temporary public truce . |
| 23 | Harlequins ' prompt 30-day suspension of the Wallaby World Cup forward , which forestalled any further action by the powers-that-be , did lead to him sitting out the loss to Northampton in the league ( although few of Quins ' other internationals played anyway ) . |
| 24 | It was so radical that in later centuries it did lead to the abolition of slavery in the Western world . |
| 25 | Its history was of minor significance in itself , although its activities did lead to a degree of confrontation which acted as a precursor to the political violence later to become associated with the BUF in the 1930s . |
| 26 | Erm and with the housing people putting the type of people they put in there , it did lead to a lot of problems . |
| 27 | Nationally the war did lead to one innovation when the government created an imaginative attempt to cope with teacher shortage in the Emergency Training Service , which trained teachers without academic qualifications after national service . |
| 28 | And that worked did lead to an amendment of the then Greater York area to the area that is defined now . |
| 29 | So the law was , was implemented , it became fa clear fairly quickly that , in the process of that implementation , it did lead to encroachment on the r middle peasant . |
| 30 | But his immediate successors , following his death in 1849 , made less impression , though the growing French influence in the country did lead to the granting of the concession in 1856 to Ferdinand de Lesseps to build the Suez Canal . |