Example sentences of "[adv] led to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Given the many problems with the data sets , ’ he said , ‘ one is not inexorably led to the conclusion that a negative secular solar radius trend has existed since AD 1700 , but the preponderance of current evidence indicates that such is likely to be the case . ’ |
| 2 | The clash in underlying values between Britain and the United States on the one hand and the former Soviet Union on the other , is illustrated by the fact that an act of financial speculation — which has not only led to the accumulation of great wealth but has also occasionally received public honour in Britain and the United States — might have earned the perpetrator the death sentence in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |
| 4 | This has naturally led to a drop in the price receivers are able to get for a failed business , and thus a drop in the surpluses the receiver hands to the liquidator . |
| 5 | This has naturally led to the search for ways in which they can be relaxed . |
| 6 | Similarly , the attempt to remove barriers to investment has merely led to their redistribution , for instead of paying rates inside Enterprise Zones firms pay higher rents and property prices ( Erikson and Syms , 1986 ) . |
| 7 | Looking for lines of descent with modification had not merely led to finding interesting fossils , but had also produced better understanding of how existing species fit together . |
| 8 | We have seen that the difficulty of obtaining the gratuitous services of suitable persons to act as trustees has necessarily led to the practice of reposing an ever wider range of discretion in those who can only thus be persuaded to act . |
| 9 | The desire to be Miles Hunt soon led to the Levellers . |
| 10 | In contrast to 1956 , when Khruschev 's call for reform in the East had soon led to a Soviet clampdown , Gorbachev 's desire for change included an acceptance of political pluralism . |
| 11 | This has already led to stiffer competition among private banks . |
| 12 | The Cabinet was deeply divided on the issue , between those , such as Alan Lennox-Boyd , the Colonial Secretary , who argued that immigration curbs could damage ‘ the Commonwealth concept ’ , and those , such as Duncan Sandys , Minister of Housing and Local Government , who warned the Cabinet that ‘ in certain districts , such as Birmingham and Lambeth , colonial immigration had already led to serious over-crowding and consequently to social disturbance ’ . |
| 13 | They argued that existing maps and digitized files from them are unable to meet these needs at global or regional scale and only remote sensing could help in the short term : the availability of stereometric data from the French SPOT satellite has already led to proposals for automated creation of global digital elevation models with a spatial ( XY ) resolution of about 30 m ( Muller 1989 ) . |
| 14 | The plans have already led to a number of Farnham Lane residents and others interested in protecting the track — which is believed to pre-date Roman times — to object to the reclassification scheme . |
| 15 | These changes , in the piecemeal fashion in which the Act is being implemented , will come into force in September 1993 and have already led to what Adrian Randall , finance director of the Cancer Research Campaign , calls , ‘ some howlers ’ . |
| 16 | Murdoch 's motivation was simply profit , and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists . |
| 17 | Whatever side is taken in this ongoing debate , however , it appears that knowledge of the ill effects of tobacco has already led to a modification in smoking behaviour among older men , particularly those in non-manual employment . |
| 18 | The expected shortfall in social services funding for community care had already led to tightening of the criteria that social workers will use to decide who is eligible for care management , and patients with moderate needs for care might lose out altogether . |
| 19 | Hewlett Packard have a working agreement with Compugraphic which has already led to that company 's typesetters being able to understand PCL and HP 's printers being able to accept Compugraphic 's fonts — they also provide PostScript as an option . |
| 20 | Derwent ( 1982 ) suggests that current upper tropospheric aircraft operations may have already led to such an increase in the total ozone column by up to several per cent . |
| 21 | It has already led to grief , but that is just a beginning . ’ |
| 22 | The Environmental Protection Act 1990 has already led to significant improvements in national pollution control , waste disposal , the control of litter and the reorganisation of bodies responsible for the countryside . |
| 23 | The aims of this research are to identify the conditions that have already led to either of these diverging trends in other countries and the likelihood of their influence in Britain ; the consequences for job opportunities and skill-use following from either of these patterns ; and the possibility of a conflict in relevant training and labour requirement arising from contrasting work practices . |
| 24 | This followed a serious accident at the reactor on Oct. 19 which had already led to its temporary closure [ see p. 36984 ] . |
| 25 | Concern for the plant 's impact on the environment had already led to a cut in production earlier in the year to the minimum necessary to keep the plant 's systems in operation . |
| 26 | The system is said to be the most advanced in the world , and has already led to several arrests . |
| 27 | The work 's already led to queues up to eight miles long . |
| 28 | He said that it had already led to the curtailment of five drilling contracts with thousands of potential job losses . |
| 29 | Precise details of what has been achieved by the liaison remain a closely guarded secret but it has involved developing new methods of using medicinal drugs in the body and has already led to a contract with a major pharmaceutical company . |
| 30 | This has largely led to a reduction in overall-activity , but the control of mosquitoes by means of insecticide retains its prominence . |