Example sentences of "[coord] this [modal v] lead " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this might lead us to suspect that there is a cultural association , certainly for British English speakers , between femininity and middle-class language on one hand and masculinity and working-class speech on the other . |
| 2 | On the other hand , our log-power estimates have only approximately a gaussian distribution , and this might lead to incorrect calculation of the likelihood of local peaks . |
| 3 | As just one example , agricultural goods are generally priced lower in relation to industrial products in developing countries than in industrial countries , and this may lead to an exaggeration of the apparent differences in per capita income . |
| 4 | The sacral nerves which supply the genitalia are often involved in the disease process , and this may lead to sexual anaesthesia in the female and impotence in the male . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the idea of ‘ readiness ’ for a test must be one where the teacher has to be the ultimate judge ; and this may lead to a certain amount of tension between parents and teachers . |
| 6 | As we grow older , it takes longer for faeces to travel through the digestive tract and this may lead to constipation . |
| 7 | Indeed , discouraging technological progress within a particular country would make the country 's goods less competitive in world markets and this may lead to an even greater increase in unemployment . |
| 8 | The large scales are very easily dislodged or damaged against the cover glass , and this may lead to infection or distress at the very least . |
| 9 | just as policy has to be interpreted by local authorities and individual schools , so ideologies have to be translated into specific policies and practices , and this may lead to inconsisten-cies . |
| 10 | She sounds motivated and this may lead other people to consider applying for jobs with the company . |
| 11 | The problems and damaging consequences of use will feed back to exacerbate further the underlying disorder of mood and this may lead to further use of addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 12 | As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture . |
| 13 | It is very important to distinguish the first from the subsequent bleeding episodes because associated mortality is different and this may lead to biases in studies when pooling the two types of episodes . |
| 14 | Computer technology spreads into all sorts of other technologies and this may lead to patentable inventions , even though the computer technology itself is not new , if the application of the technology is new . |
| 15 | In addition there are genuine conceptual and technical difficulties in assessing " performance " in services like the NHS or education and this may lead to concentration on the measurable rather than the important ( as the early history of performance indicators demonstrates ) . |
| 16 | A second major source of infection for the very young animal is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of their dams and this may lead to clinical strongyloidiasis in foals and piglets in the first weeks of life . |
| 17 | Otherwise too much power would be concentrated in the hands of one organ and this would lead to tyranny . |
| 18 | The Bioplan proposal would ‘ materially increase the demand for car parking at the Memorial hospital site and this would lead to further substantial on-street parking at Hollyhurst Road , which would be detrimental to highway safety ’ , said the inspector 's report to the environment secretary . |
| 19 | Standard errors are large on all the coefficients used in the regression equations for estimating both the population at risk and the unit costs and this could lead to considerable potential error in the estimated expenditure needs for individual Authorities . |
| 20 | High unemployment is singled out as a second , key socio-political variable : depressed labour markets mean that replacement workers are available , and this could lead to confrontations as they try to cross picket lines . |
| 21 | Even then , some may gain more than others , and this could lead to other options being sought which do not produce gain for everyone . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 23 | If the under-development applies to renal rhythms then the production of urine at night might be considerably higher than in normal children and this can lead to the problem of bed-wetting . |
| 24 | For the great majority of women sterilisation provides peace of mind by removing the fear of unplanned pregnancy and this can lead to a happier sex life . |
| 25 | Not only our skeletal muscles but the heart muscle also tends to degenerate if we do not get sufficient exercise , and this can lead eventually to heart failure . |
| 26 | Drastic dieting puts stress on the body , leaving less energy for synthesising non-essential proteins — such as hair — and this can lead to temporary hair thinning . |
| 27 | As in the heart , calcium entering neurons through voltage-operated channels can be amplified by CICR from internal pools and this can lead to the generation of repetitive calcium spikes . |
| 28 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 29 | Compared to some continental countries , the levers of higher education policy in the UK are often financial rather than legislative , and this can lead not so much to a change of title as a gradual dissociation between title and reality . |
| 30 | A detailed kinematic understanding is thus available and this can lead on to a comprehensive dynamic and performance analysis if so desired . |