Example sentences of "[vb mod] lead [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy of withholding funds for investment in the reconstruction of the Basque Country , Catalonia and Asturias was a deliberate , punitive gesture , as well as a precautionary measure , lest too rapid or too successful economic recovery should lead to agitation for the political autonomy to which they had aspired — and , in the case of the Basque Country and Catalonia , enjoyed — under the Republic . |
| 2 | The ‘ target ’ of the strike action was undoubtedly the railway undertaking but it was obviously a necessary consequence of the strike 's having any effect at all that it should lead to interference in the performance of contracts of carriage . |
| 3 | An opening at the Met Despite resistance by its more conservative elements , the Metropolitan Police has begun a process of reform that should lead to improvements in the way it operates and encourage better relations with the public . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if greater visibility should lead to prisoners being better treated ( for fear of abuse being exposed ) then visibility rather than secrecy could help to defuse the crisis . |
| 5 | He also wrote of the superstition , the human passions and the religious representations that interfered with the observation and application of reason which should lead to knowledge . |
| 6 | The document is intended as an interim measure pending the May meeting of the safety committee of the IMO , which should lead to changes in nautical publications and navigation charts . |
| 7 | Experimental operation should lead to samples of 16Mbit chips being delivered in 1991 . |
| 8 | Finally , by identifying variations in agreement and effectiveness between sectors and between countries , the research should lead to recommendations for improvement . |
| 9 | Such expansion should lead to improvement of animal treatment through better controls . |
| 10 | The medical world looks for cures and , given a precise diagnosis , will set out a course of treatment which should lead to improvement in the patient 's condition . |
| 11 | We therefore have some justification in hoping for more constructive cooperation between specialists in language study and pedagogy , which should lead in turn to a clearer conception of the role that linguistics can perform in helping teachers to increase their understanding and effectiveness in the classroom . |
| 12 | Any regulation must lead to interference with individual rights . ’ |
| 13 | Below and beyond this zone behavioural responses must become the major controlling mechanism , but this becomes metabolically expensive , and must lead to exhaustion if it can not be made good by an increased intake of food and rest . |
| 14 | Education for Sustainability must lead to changes in the value systems to which we are currently wedded if we are to build a more sustainable society . |
| 15 | This overlap must lead to synergy not friction . |
| 16 | If externalism is a sound stance , then the argument from error is irrelevant ; for it does no more than elaborate on a defective ( though traditional ) approach to epistemology or if it does more , it succeeds only in showing how that defective approach must lead to scepticism . |
| 17 | In this area above all , the leader must lead by example . |
| 18 | It was thought therefore that the increased use of such a system might lead to improvements in enforcement . |
| 19 | Too heavy a reliance on a particular firm or industry might lead to lack of balance in research output — fundamental research without an immediate pay-off may be pushed out , and there is also a danger that commercial pressures may begin to dictate the courses on offer . |
| 20 | For both readers it might lead to topics ( quotes , facts , ideas ) of a wider interest than the task in hand ( e.g. " looking for information on Unemployment in the 1930s " ) , This skimming should be done very quickly ( a few seconds per average page ) . |
| 21 | any possible specific solvent-polymer interactions which might lead to orientation of the solvent molecules in the vicinity of the polymer chain are neglected i.e. polar solutions may be inadequately catered for by this theory ; |
| 22 | In addition to , secondary prevention could also be applied to the alleviation of social and psychological difficulties which might lead to attempts . |
| 23 | What the defendants had done , was not to enhance the risk that the known factors would lead to blindness , but to add to the list of factors which might lead to blindness . |
| 24 | A parallel ‘ hard ’ rouble might lead to hyperinflation in old roubles — unless budgetary control were tight enough to make roubles ‘ real ’ money anyway . |
| 25 | Very deep depressions might lead to rises in sea level , therefore , of the order of 0.5 m ( 1.5 ft ) or even more in tropical cyclones . |
| 26 | Local law societies were generally against the establishment of an annual limit on the grounds that it might lead to unfairness in the handling of claims within any particular 12 month period . |
| 27 | Similarly , laws-of-war considerations might lead to advocacy of a very large nuclear armoury , on the grounds that only then can weapons be used discriminately — but this could only too easily be read as a threat by the adversary . |
| 28 | We treasure confirmation and we fear that any alteration in the pattern might lead to confirmation ceasing to be observed . |
| 29 | He was very concerned that the integration of the races might lead to violence and public disorder on a large scale . |
| 30 | As well as the set OPEN of known nodes which might lead to goals , and whose children have yet to be explored , the algorithm keeps a set called CLOSED of other known nodes whose children have been constructed . |