Example sentences of "[adv] have lead to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any rise in aggregate demand which was rationally anticipated would have had no such effect — it would merely have led to a rise in prices . |
| 2 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 3 | Recent evidence suggests however , that the introduction of modern technology does not necessarily have to lead to a continuing decline in the agricultural labour force . |
| 4 | Savings resulting from the Energy Efficiency Office 's programmes alone have led to a current annual energy saving worth more than £500 million a year . |
| 5 | Likewise the same range of factors as for industry generally has led to correspondingly poor performance in international terms . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , it is often the most deprived areas or people who are least able to help themselves , and in many rural areas the decline in rural transport and rural services outlined above has led to real rural deprivation . |
| 7 | This might not have led to a massive reduction that saw the rabbits left at the lowest desirable number , but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances . |
| 8 | If oil-drillers can exploit organic molecules to manipulate the flow and drillability of mud , there is no reason why cumulative selection should not have led to the same kind of exploitation by self-replicating minerals . |
| 9 | Indeed , its very ordinariness and the want of any reliable documentation could easily have led to its disposal . |
| 10 | This view of the body as a machine and little more has led to the increasing use of pharmaceutical drugs to counteract symptoms and to increasingly sophisticated surgical techniques to remove and replace diseased tissues and organs . |
| 11 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 12 | Unions will be able to nominate potential candidates for Westminster and Europe but will be prohibited from taking part in the final vote , which traditionally has led to big unions swamping the choice of MP . |
| 13 | Now obsession with locking up has led to a very special door opening for a seven year old boy with a very unusual hobby . |
| 14 | He went on to add that , had his interest not been channelled into the evangelical Protestantism of the Free Church , it would probably have led to him getting in with ‘ a bad crowd ’ and joining the tartan gangs of loyalist youths . |
| 15 | On the other hand , as we have changed to electricity , because of the inefficiency of the electricity generating process this has reflected an increase in the primary fuel consumption by the nation for domestic purposes , and this is true of most western countries that the consumption in the home has not increased , but changing to electricity increasingly has led to burning more oil and coal nationally to produce this constant home demand . |
| 16 | At club level , his persistent niggling paid off , but at international level , it often acted as a destabilising influence , and may well have led to the premature departure of Willie Ormond as the national team manager . |
| 17 | In this case depression resulting from the symptoms , may well have led to an increased focus on the self , and therefore to an increased identification of internal causal attributions . |
| 18 | If the parish-based Poor Law was operating as well for the settled poor as modern historians seem to suggest , then more generous relief and serious attention to the provision of work and cottages may well have led to a decline in subsistence-driven migration . |
| 19 | Beating Oldham 1–0 on 30 August had taken a bit of heat off Wilkinson , but another away defeat could well have led to calls for his resignation . |
| 20 | But such a procedure would simply have led to the conclusion that the investigator had failed to elicit environments where the variable could be studied , and would miss the point that speakers were in fact making use of an entirely different range of choices to express stylistic differences . |
| 21 | Once established , however , the theoretical stage seems to have grown in status and size , and may even have led to a relative decline in the importance and quality of the practical stage . |
| 22 | They could n't understand it at the time , and nor could I. None of us has any religious sense , there were n't any fundamentalist kinsmen to pacify : the absence of a fellow in a frilly white frock would n't have led to the suppuku of disinheritance . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Growing international influence since then has led to a reappraisal of earlier decisions and trends . |
| 25 | Each accident was assessed also for its potential large-scale consequences , and it was found that 7% of the accidents could potentially have led to major accidents . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 27 | To have proposed that a language should be compulsory throughout the five-year period would undoubtedly have led to difficulties in recruiting sufficient teachers and have entailed a massive increase in the teaching of French . |
| 28 | The proportion of the final value of silk goods returned to producers is substantial , sufficient indeed to have led to a major expansion of the industry in recent years , with visibly greater prosperity in sericultureal areas . |
| 29 | Some historians remain sceptical about this , while others are convinced that it does , and that an early form of military organisation was based upon the herred system ; that it appears in southern Norway and Västergötland in Sweden too has led to the contention that it was introduced there in Viking times , perhaps by Swegen or Cnut . |
| 30 | This occasionally has led to some teachers inadvertently overlooking some payments . |