Example sentences of "[adv] have lead [prep] " 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 Indeed , its very ordinariness and the want of any reliable documentation could easily have led to its disposal .
8 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 .
9 She found her place in the team , because you do n't always have to lead from the front .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 That staircase could equally well have led from seats .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Growing international influence since then has led to a reappraisal of earlier decisions and trends .
23 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 .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 This occasionally has led to some teachers inadvertently overlooking some payments .
29 It did not evolve from the previous work on the classical Super ( which would never have led to it ) but was a piece of serendipity .
30 ‘ If she had n't got married and coupled with that whey-faced young man , one thing would never have led to another .
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