Example sentences of "lead to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp increases in local prices which can not be predicted and rises and falls in exchange rates lead to much confusion when trying to determine an expatriate 's disposable income . |
| 2 | Compulsive overworking ( workaholism ) or overachieving ( which is not necessarily the same thing at all ) are conditions that lead to much debate . |
| 3 | Although the physico-chemical changes caused by the ionization of the atoms of living matter occur in a fraction of a second , the processes whereby these changes eventually lead to such changes in living matter as cell death , malignant tumours ( cancer ) , and genetic mutations may take hours , months , or even decades ( Coggle , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | Rising tax rates initially increase tax revenue but eventually lead to such large falls in the equilibrium quantity of the taxed commodity or activity that revenue starts to fall again . |
| 5 | The research thus seeks to accumulate new information on food choices in Britain and the processes — social , cultural , economic and political — which lead to such choices . |
| 6 | Large quantities of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen are being emitted into the atmosphere by the combustion of fossil fuels and industrial processes , and these gases are being converted into strong acids ( sulphuric and nitric ) which lead to many areas experiencing precipitation of a very low acidity . |
| 7 | Can maths teachers be entrusted with drawing inferences , trends etc. from significant data , or must they automatically stick to anodyne data which will offend no one but will automatically remove true significance from their work and lead to many students being bereft of motivation ? |
| 8 | We were certain that , left to us , the places would get double-booked and lead to all kinds of tangles . |
| 9 | ‘ These problems are what lead to that sense of being left out , of isolation and despair , which in turn can lead to the symptoms we are familiar with — drug and alcohol abuse , crime and vandalism , debt and family break-up . ’ |
| 10 | These roads lead to that part of the old Chatham Royal Naval Dockyard which is now leased to the first defendant , Medway ( Chatham ) Dock Co . |
| 11 | Lead to that , certainly . |
| 12 | I could only speculate whether the industrial activity required to produce the clock radio and the telephone they wanted to give me , and all the ongoing activity to service those industries and their customers , would not cause more pollution , lead to more acid rain , and so destroy more trees than the one they planned to plant for me . |
| 13 | But there is a snag : more roads lead to more cars , in general . |
| 14 | Negatives lead to more negatives . |
| 15 | For example , a slightly cheaper drug may require a more expensive route of administration , require more frequent patient monitoring , or lead to more side-effects . |
| 16 | This vision of Orcadian self-help was much favoured by the more conservative bureaucratic direction whilst being apprehensive that the policy might discourage private home ownership and lead to more council houses being built locally . |
| 17 | Railway lines , with stations , signal boxes , tunnels , bridges , and long or short trains lead to more ideas of spatial awareness . |
| 18 | But fierce scrubbing and harsh degreasing can certainly traumatise your skin , say experts , and lead to more problems . |
| 19 | ‘ Wars in the Middle East resolve no dispute and settle no injustice — they simply sow the seeds of frustration and discontent that lead to more and more costly wars . ’ |
| 20 | Successful Hackney ‘ No Through Road Campaign ’ visibility : Expose road lobby , e.g. not all new roads lead to more employment . |
| 21 | If job creation schemes are n't in urban areas , are the best way to get round them , is n't it , if we can show , quite simply , that job creation schemes lead to more migration , which lead to more unemployment . |
| 22 | He says taking bobbies out of villages lead to more crime . |
| 23 | The ‘ short-sighted ’ award would simply lead to a deterioration in morale , cause difficulties implementing the Government 's patient 's charter and lead to more staff leaving the health service , she said . |
| 24 | ‘ Only lead to another bust-up . |
| 25 | They are environmentally friendly and they lead to less congestion . |
| 26 | He said that ending the agreement would jeopardise the future of small or family-run shops , lead to fewer books being published and increase prices of all but a few best sellers . |
| 27 | Ingram reported that for children with phonological disorders , imitation tasks lead to fewer errors compared to spontaneous speech . |
| 28 | There are other reasons such as commonality of components and , of course , shortage of imagination which lead to most design and development being a progressive iterative process . |
| 29 | The personal , social and physical consequences of ageing will , in turn , lead to both ‘ objective outcomes ’ and ‘ subjective outcomes ’ which relate to the meaning of such experiences to the individual . |
| 30 | The capture of inert gases from the PFM can not by any plausible means lead to this discrepancy and therefore this is ruled out as the major mechanism by which these planets acquired these inert gases . |