Example sentences of "[vb mod] lead [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theoretically the luminous trail should lead rescuers to the clearing even at night … but any sensible murderer would have obliterated the road end of it after he 'd found his own way out . |
| 2 | Commenting at a later stage on the commonly held expectation that London should lead developments in medicine , the Hampstead DGM was able to report that the Royal Free had ‘ in many ways been very successful in maintaining and consolidating its position ’ . |
| 3 | In trying to find answers , managers — whether they were heads or governors — were caught between the need to make progress and to prepare for broad changes which had been widely publicized by central government and to prepare for the necessity that they should lead changes . |
| 4 | The staggering fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research should lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 5 | All LEAs and schools must lead pupils to understand what is involved in Britain 's being a multiracial and multicultural society ; this must permeate all the work of schools . |
| 6 | Follow me an' I 'll lead yeh right to it . ’ |
| 7 | But in her personal and religious life she was very far from wise or sober , which might lead theologians to think that the apparition of Christ which she saw was a hallucination rather than a pure vision . |
| 8 | The MPs said the absence of any disciplinary action against any of the individuals involved could undermine the Bank 's future effectiveness because it might lead staff to conclude that failure to carry out their responsibilities effectively carried no adverse consequences for them . |
| 9 | It might lead staff to conclude that failure to carry out their responsibilities effectively ‘ carries no adverse consequences for them as individuals ’ . |
| 10 | Daily life might lead people to interact internationally — through the goods they handled , collaborative work , consumption patterns , even culture . |
| 11 | The fact that 41% of the original researchers have not published papers relating to their original research could lead funding authorities to question the extent to which the research programmes which they sponsored were worthwhile undertaking in the first place . |
| 12 | N-E FEARS that tumbling property rents in London could lead companies to think again about relocating from the South-East have been dismissed by property agent Grimley JR Eve . |
| 13 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
| 14 | And the bird 's loose tongue could lead police straight to their lair . |
| 15 | The CAJEC document , issued last November ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 11 ) proposed the rotation of audit partners , not only because it would help avoid situations that could lead outsiders to question the auditor 's objectivity , but also because it would give the client the benefit of a fresh , objective scrutiny and new ideas without losing the benefit of the knowledge of the business that the audit firm had already acquired . |
| 16 | It also means continuing impartiality and helps to avoid situations which could lead outsiders to question the auditor 's objectivity . |
| 17 | This may lead owners to worry that the dog 's diet is deficient in some respect , but if you are using a balanced prepared food , then there should be no concern about this . |
| 18 | Ultimately , segmentation policy may lead Perkins to a market situation where it may no longer see itself as " an engineering company selling an engineering product " but instead is " moving towards a service company approach " in which " the ability to work with customers must be a high priority . " |
| 19 | For example , pressures to commercialism may lead management to replace blurred and ambiguous strategic objectives with clear and concise ones . |
| 20 | Fill each one with Your Holy Spirit , O Saviour , that their teaching and life may lead others to know You for themselves . |
| 21 | For example , the need to generate income may lead trusts to concentrate on more profitable areas of work at the expense of others , or to discriminate between different categories of patients — private and public , DHA patients and those of GP fundholders — and between patients from one district and those from another . |
| 22 | Considerable though the gains can be from delegation , there are nevertheless some real obstacles that may lead managers to be wary about sharing their authority . |
| 23 | Of course , these considerations may lead firms collectively to undertake absurdly ambitious , big science projects when more modest research programmes would be optimal , and it is possible that research conducted collectively will be less well managed than a series of smaller scale independent projects ( the incentive to control costs may be weakened when costs are shared , and centralizing research efforts can often narrow their scope considerably ) . |
| 24 | This may lead firms to introduce different agreements with the same intermediary each covering different classes of indirect customer . |
| 25 | As already indicated , laws-of-war considerations may lead writers or policy-makers to advocate targeting missile bases rather than cities — but this might prove in practice an open invitation to compete in nuclear hardware or , even worse , an incentive to strike first . |
| 26 | There is a danger , however , that number friezes badly used may lead children to relate for instance , five only with five ducks or a domino pattern . |
| 27 | Conversation with adults may lead children towards sorting out straight edges or corners , and with the large floor puzzles it is often possible to match pieces by colour or pattern . |
| 28 | This approach suggests that experiences , often occurring in childhood , may lead people to the formation of dysfunctional assumptions about themselves and their world . |
| 29 | If Christians use a therapy which is also used by people who are deliberately following New Age beliefs , this may lead people to be deceived into thinking the New Age Movement is acceptable to Christianity ? ( 1 Corinthians 10:19–25 ) |
| 30 | A number of motives may lead people into taking up EFL . |