Example sentences of "[pron] lead to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More precisely , we might look for a set of conditions or circumstances which lead to the expectation that Creole would be used in an interaction . |
| 2 | ‘ The Russian Empire ’ , wrote Catherine II in 1764 , ‘ is so large that apart from the Autocratic Sovereign every other form of government is harmful to it , because all others are slower in their execution and contain a great multitude of various horrors , which lead to the disintegration of power and strength more than that of one Sovereign , who possesses all the means for the eradication of all harm and looks on the general good as his own . ’ |
| 3 | Gross correlations between social organization and ecology sometimes yield valuable clues which lead to the formulation of hypotheses for testing in later studies . |
| 4 | This will provide a detailed picture of the ( local ) processes which lead to the formation and implementation of urban policy . |
| 5 | The instrument not only measures the amount of ozone in the air but also the amounts of substances which lead to the formation of ozone . |
| 6 | Traditionally we think of market prices as signals which lead to the co-ordination of economic activities ( no unwanted shortages or surpluses ) . |
| 7 | Inside , the forty-two solid oak steps which lead to the top of the house are all original , as is much of the panelling . |
| 8 | I can count on the fingers of one hand all the journalists I have met who are committed to telling the truth about my field as well as they can discover it , No one could organise censorship so effectively in America , so the distortions in the press must reflect countless more or less independent decisions by editors and reporters which lead to the perpetuation of a misleading and intellectually fallacious understanding of a serious scientific subject . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the courts ' power to order the taking of evidence out of the jurisdiction , which is considered below , there are a number of procedures available during the pre-trial phase which lead to the exposure of information or material relevant to the matter in hand . |
| 10 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 11 | The ‘ bottom ’ line is the one that separates those measures which lead to the loss of nationhood from those which are concerned with effecting closer association and cooperation — and freer and fairer trade — between genuinely independent states . |
| 12 | History is full of environmental collapses which lead to the demise of societies , from Easter Island to rose-red Petra . |
| 13 | The bulk of corporate activity should be within well-set schemas and focus upon the creation of action rationality , but within the corporation there should be a mechanism to warn of impending crises or to recognize opportunities for significant improvement which lead to the questioning and modification of existing schemas . |
| 14 | An important feature of the courses which lead to the awarding of the Certificate is the teaching practice with small groups of real students . |
| 15 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which lead to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 16 | The letter was brought from PLO headquarters in Tunis by Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Joergen Holst , who played a key role in secret Israeli-PLO contacts which lead to the agreement . |
| 17 | The concept of casual recreational sex in society sends young people out into the streets and into bars endeavouring to establish relationships which lead to the bedroom . |
| 18 | But Craven chose Louis Luyt , the maverick president of the powerful Transvaal Rugby to help pursue the initiatives which lead to the creation of SARFU . |
| 19 | A year earlier it was Vittorio Cassoni — then head of AT&T 's Computer Group and the man who forged the deal with Sun Microsystems Inc which lead to the creation of the Open Software Foundation — who was sufficiently encouraged by the work of London firm UniSoft Ltd on a binary compatibility standard for Unix running on Motorola Inc 680x0 and 88000 CPU lines , to back the concept of Unix ABIs . |
| 20 | Similarly , changes in university structure which lead to the creation of new departments without previous track records , are extremely difficult to initiate successfully . |
| 21 | After the conclusion of the first hearing , it came to your Lordships ' attention that an examination of the proceedings in Parliament in 1976 which lead to the enactment of sections 61 and 63 might give a clear indication which of the two rival contentions represented the intention of Parliament in using the statutory words . |
| 22 | Abbey National 's winning formula includes excellent service , innovative products and competitive interest rates : the combination of which lead to the hat-trick in the recent awards . |
| 23 | Often their mode of action provides fresh problems and , at least potentially , new insights into the processes which lead to the growth of cancers . |
| 24 | The units make the forms of the diagrams effectively independent of B , and since C is assumed to be about 4B they can be used to include variations in C. Tanabe-Sugano diagrams can be used to assign spectra empirically ; they lead to the identification of allowed transitions , and very often the fit of the observed transition energies gives values of Δ/B; that are unambiguous . |
| 25 | They lead to the creation of world-class companies . |
| 26 | Morgan seems to suggest , however tentatively , reasons why one stage should change into another , in the idea that the processes of evolution themselves lead to the destruction of the stages they produced . |