Example sentences of "lead on " in BNC.

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1 In summary it seems that a statistical relationship between low-level exposure to lead on one hand , and low intelligence and , possibly , hyperactivity on the other , has been established , but that the causal relation is still an unresolved issue .
2 A GAMBLE on Omidjoy , backed from 66-1 to 14-1 for the opener at Leicester yesterday , failed by the narrowest of margins when odds-on Fair Maid Of Kent got up again to lead on the line .
3 Which brings in Japan 's besetting sin : its reluctance to lead on multilateral free trade , even though it has more to lose than most from GATT 's demise .
4 He grumbled incessantly about the ‘ disgusting ’ provincial life we had to lead on the island .
5 For organizations and clubs first timing it in this area Kinloss Canoe Club can always provide an experienced canoeist guide ( usually an instructor ) to join your flotilla and paddle along to give up to the minute on the spot information , or if you wish , to lead on the water , all at not cost , especially on the Findhorn .
6 Order 20 , r 12A provides as follows : ( 1 ) Subject to paragraph ( 2 ) , at any stage in an action or matter the court may , if it thinks fit for the purpose of disposing fairly and expeditiously of the action or matter and saving costs , direct any party to serve on the other parties , on such terms as the court shall think just , written statements of the oral evidence which the party intends to lead on any issues of fact to be decided at the trial and RSC Ord 38 , r 2A shall apply to a direction under this rule .
7 As the season enters its last month , the two sides are neck and neck , with Colchester leading on goal difference after beating Slough 4–0 on Tuesday .
8 When the two girls left the smithy , Gay was carrying the wooden board — a rough affair that was all that could be obtained — and Breeze was leading on the end of a knotted string a small and ill-favoured specimen of doghood .
9 Lambert who was leading on this occasion , ordered the formation to go into line astern for the attack .
10 Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along .
11 His dummy , leading on the story of a northern factory which was allegedly poisoning its workers , had been marked down as brilliant and just the sort of hard-hitting stuff the paper wanted .
12 Right : Louise leading on The Trunk of the Elephant .
13 We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way .
14 January 1894 , when twenty members were present , The subject of Debate " Should women be allowed to appear in a public capacity " was discussed , Mr. Osborne leading on the affirmative side , and Mr. James Christie on the negative .
15 The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport .
16 However , he says , he has been misquoted and his work suppressed by publicly supported scientists who are supposed to follow all research leads on predator control .
17 There could be no quicker way than this to appreciate how different things are climatically on the two sides of the mountains , because not only do you exchange cold cloud for sunshine but also the lush greenery of the high valleys to the north for the grass less , stony and , in summer , almost waterless river valley which leads on the Spanish side down to the small town of Bielsa ( a little trippery , inevitably , but a place of some character ) .
18 Gillner leads on 207 , nine under par , with Bristol 's Andrew Sherborne and halfway leader Steen Tinning just one stroke adrift .
19 And finally , police in Edinburgh are urgently following leads on a major force operation …
20 They rushed him through to Resus , and got him going again , and while Kathleen put the monitor leads on Jack checked him for injuries and ordered X-rays .
21 Yetserday it was rvealed that an investigation into West mercia police will look into claims that fifteen hundred leads on the murder were not followed up properly .
22 there 's no life on the bench for Hereford manager Greg Downs … he leads on the field … tells them what to and shows them too … he made the goal for max Nicholson last week …
23 there 's no life on the bench for Hereford manager Greg Downs … he leads on the field … tells them what to and shows them too … he made the goal for max Nicholson last week …
24 Farreely leads the 125cc class on 143 followed by Neill on 126 and David Renshaw on 84 while in the Support Series David Moore leads on 139 followed by Michael McBride on 95 and Paul Gray and Jason McIntyre on 90 .
25 If you could have somewhere you could obviously hang them , like leads on for instance .
26 Little suggests Sinclair is aware that the reader is being lead on a path of real discovery , with genuine wonders to uncover .
27 Oh well lead so er , apparently if , if you could get in fine detail enough we 'd have lead on ourselves , this is why the , this carbon dioxide stuff from the erm
28 He led on the easy bits , followed and pushed on the worse sections .
29 Or she led on men .
30 In Indonesia a large part of the argument which led on two occasions to undeclared war turned on the federal nature of the new state .
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