Example sentences of "lead to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misusing drugs in pregnancy can seriously harm your baby and even lead to the birth of a baby dependent on drugs . |
| 2 | But from the perspective of constructivism — which is a general theory of how cognisance is possible and how it develops — the immediate ‘ information-processing ’ shortcomings that lead to the failure to relate one 's actions to objects is not relevant . |
| 3 | It is often the way he extends his hand to take hers and the way she responds that lead to the successful conclusion of a balance , lift or pirouette . |
| 4 | More riverside and woodland paths lead to the town of Grassington , continuing on to Buckden . |
| 5 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 6 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 7 | Morgan seems to suggest , however tentatively , reasons why one stage should change into another , in the idea that the processes of evolution themselves lead to the destruction of the stages they produced . |
| 8 | Classes and private property grow out of the family and together these various factors lead to the break-up of the gens . |
| 9 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which lead to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 10 | Inside , the forty-two solid oak steps which lead to the top of the house are all original , as is much of the panelling . |
| 11 | Macmillan played on Kennedy 's political instincts by suggesting that a failure to honour Eisenhower 's Polaris pledge could sink the Macmillan Government and lead to the election of an anti-American alternative , either Conservative or Labour — anti-Americanism not being confined to one party . |
| 12 | And ( b ) rigged prices lead to the dumped surpluses that distort world trade ; so the goal is to move the EC 's intervention prices down towards world-market ones — down , as a minimum , towards what a truly efficient European farmer can survive on . |
| 13 | Three nominated judges will officiate at the two Grands Prix , which lead to the Kur or Special tours . |
| 14 | For homework , clients are encouraged to complete a daily record of dysfunctional thoughts in which the situations that lead to emotional upset are recorded , automatic thoughts that lead to the upset are set down , and rational responses to the dysfunctional thoughts are recorded . |
| 15 | It is these leakage channels into the gut cell walls that cause them to swell and burst the gut wall and lead to the death of the insect . |
| 16 | It could create dependence on unreliable imports ( as the world market for low sulphur coal is extremely susceptible to sharp increases in demand and expensive because of its popularity in the USA ) , adversely affect the balance of payments , be vulnerable to changes in the value of the pound , increase unemployment costs from the mining industry , and lead to the geological abandonment of UK mines , thus making it a difficult policy to reverse . |
| 17 | They lead to the creation of world-class companies . |
| 18 | Gross correlations between social organization and ecology sometimes yield valuable clues which lead to the formulation of hypotheses for testing in later studies . |
| 19 | In a 1972 paper I suggested that during the evolution of terrestrial open-country monkeys , two main selection pressures operated on the individuals whose collective strategies lead to the interactions and relationships that are responsible for the social structure ( see also Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 20 | If a European Union of this kind were ever to be formed , it would either introduce new tensions and resentment when countries found their policies increasingly dependent on the most powerful country , and thereby lead to the break-up of the Community ; or , if it did somehow succeed , the future union would in effect be a greater Germany , balancing uneasily between East and West , inheriting and perhaps magnifying the complexes and instabilities of post-Bismarckian Germany . |
| 21 | The degree to which ‘ internal ’ factors — as opposed to external pressures — lead to the emergence of a separate nationality obviously varies in emphasis between cases , and the first were possibly of greater significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the emergence of the first national groups in Europe . |
| 22 | Negotiations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact could , following further agreements to reduce conventional forces , lead to the introduction of non-offensive defence strategies by both sides . |
| 23 | Stone steps lead to the closed end . |
| 24 | Often their mode of action provides fresh problems and , at least potentially , new insights into the processes which lead to the growth of cancers . |
| 25 | Strathbeg is bordered on its landward side by a vast , derelict , World War II airfield ; deserted , pock-marked runways lead to the base of a Ministry of Defence 900-foot-high radio mast , surrounded by ancillary buildings . |
| 26 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 27 | Both lead to the promised land and after three miles can be linked by a path , thus offering a circular walk which , if adopted , makes the use of a car an inconvenience . |
| 28 | Special collections purchased from private or public sources may form the bulk of a university 's holdings of research materials , and the acquisition of one special collection may — if it is subsequently well maintained — lead to the offer of further collections in the same field . |
| 29 | And of course most issue systems lead to the books themselves carrying a record of past loans on their date labels . |
| 30 | Will this simplification , especially as the assessment system is to be discussed in terms of levels , lead to the child being labelled and known prematurely as a ‘ level one child ’ or a ‘ level two child ’ and so on ? |