Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] lead [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | High market growth , if taken to be an indicator of an early stage in a life-cycle ( or a break-point upwards in a revitalized mature-stage life-cycle ; see Gilbert and Strebel , 1988 ) , coupled with high market share should lead to high ROI if the appropriate investment is undertaken . |
| 32 | One needs a Porter-style analysis to discover exactly what type of investment and competitive strategy is needed to achieve or maintain market share or competitive position ; one can not just assume that any type of investment in capacity in areas of high market share will lead to future success . |
| 33 | ‘ Some parents assume their daughters are going through a phase when the harsh reality is both bulimia and anorexia can lead to long-lasting damage . |
| 34 | Straining the sacroiliac joint by holding you body upright as you perform a roundhouse kick can lead to long-term pain and discomfort |
| 35 | The inevitable consequences in terms of the frequency of pollen deposition on stigmas , the numbers of grains and the ‘ quality ’ of those grains from the ‘ point of view ’ of the maternal genotype may lead to selective abortion of embryos . |
| 36 | The danger , of course , is that this ‘ here and now ’ policy may lead to short term benefits at the cost of longer term lost opportunities . |
| 37 | Many Greek Cypriots are fearful that a reduction of UN policing of the 110 mile ‘ green line ’ separating the Greek south from the Turkish northern third of the island could lead to renewed fighting . |
| 38 | Some of his experiments suggested that high levels of processed sugar could lead to coronary thrombosis , diabetes and heart disease . |
| 39 | This concern is behind its view that compliance with the code would lead to excessive bureaucracy and costs . |
| 40 | ‘ In a speech described as brusque and arrogant by West German sources , ’ reported Anna Tomforde in the Guardian , ‘ British representative Dr Martin Holdgate , the chief scientist at the Department of the Environment ’ said , ‘ We see no point in making heroic efforts at great cost , to control one out of many factors unless there is a reasonable expectation that such control will lead to real improvement in the environment . ’ |
| 41 | This Repairs Notice can lead to compulsory purchase of a property by the planning authority if the repairs are not carried out . |
| 42 | In a brief concluding chapter it is shown how study of the human impact can lead to wise management but also that man and nature are difficult to separate , that man is not always responsible for some of the changes with which he is credited , and that environmental impact statements of any kind are difficult to make . |
| 43 | Everything pours inwards as Gillian Brown 's dead-eyed Martha discovers obsessive control can lead to personal dissolution . |
| 44 | These feelings of being out of control can lead to inappropriate behaviour — maybe submissive behaviour . |
| 45 | Catherine , 23 — Mariette Larkin in TV 's The Darling Buds of May — hoped her US film debut would lead to universal fame and fortune . |
| 46 | The most important general example is the use of modified historic-cost accounting in Britain and Australia which systematically overstates profits by understating the value of real capital , and this in turn may lead to inadequate retention of operating surpluses and the winding down of the assets of the business . |
| 47 | We can measure productivity but with motivation we can only make certain assumptions that improved motivation may lead to improved performance . |
| 48 | The carrier state may lead to chronic liver disease including chronic active hepatitis , cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma ( Brookbanks & Hampstead , 1987 ) . |
| 49 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 50 | Scientists say the depletion of the ozone layer could lead to increased skin cancers and cataracts in humans and to crop damage . |
| 51 | Physical illness can lead to extra sleepiness too . |
| 52 | Given the inescapable rescue and control functions of social work agencies , client status may lead to increasing interference in their lives , particularly in situations of risk and vulnerability . |
| 53 | Research seems to indicate that normal karate training may lead to joint injury given that when you kick hard against the empty air , there is nothing to stop the movement of the foot except the limits of the joint . |
| 54 | Dereliction of duty may lead to disciplinary action — but this is conducted exclusivelyby the barristerstuemselves . |
| 55 | The project should lead to increasing awareness across disciplines of techniques that have found many successful applications in the physical sciences . |
| 56 | Originally intended as a rival to the City the failure of the project could lead to renewed demand for office space in the City . |
| 57 | Although people were endowed with different abilities and suffered varying degrees of misfortune , capitalism held out the promise that hard work and frugality would lead to increased prosperity for all those who wished to avail themselves of the opportunities it offered . |
| 58 | I noticed also that the chief executive of Courtauld 's said that the Labour party 's proposals for a statutory minimum wage would lead to big job losses . |
| 59 | Success in one area of integration would spill over into others , and eventually there would be a need to coordinate and collectively govern the hitherto separate economic organizations : so economic integration would lead to political integration . |
| 60 | Drastic , unprepared liberalisation can lead to economic chaos , as in the Ivory Coast in 1988 . |