Example sentences of "lead [prep] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company is hoping that the work could also lead towards the protection of plants from pests more common in Britain , some of which show poor response to traditional pesticides . |
| 2 | This would lead to the transfer of children 's day centres from social work to education and their possible future demise . |
| 3 | THE sudden popularity of the Portuguese escudo , which rose from obscurity to a position of strength inside the European exchange rate mechanism after it joined a week ago , could lead to the removal of restrictions on foreign investment earlier than planned . |
| 4 | In time this will lead to the development of faults . |
| 5 | This tape has been carefully vetted for sensitivity of content or for material which can lead to the identification of speakers . |
| 6 | It might even come to be accepted that the discovery of flaws in the original investigation need not necessarily lead to the dropping of charges but may , instead , strengthen the case against the suspect through discovery of fresh evidence or by plugging of gaps in the original investigation . |
| 7 | Again , commercialism may lead to the pursuit of indicators , such as current balance sheet results , chosen more to convince the government that commercial goals are being successfully achieved than for their relevance to the economic objectives of the enterprise . |
| 8 | In particular , studies of taxonomic botany theses in the UK and elsewhere could lead to the publication of lists of such works . |
| 9 | AI believes that the 1986 law should be reviewed to ensure that it does not lead to the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience . |
| 10 | Such views ( for example , Stonier and Conlin , 1985 ) imply that information technology ( IT ) will lead to the dismantling of schools as learning centres . |
| 11 | Painful events in later life can also lead to the formation of blocks . |
| 12 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 13 | This would lead to the formation of galaxies , stars , and eventually even insignificant creatures like ourselves . |
| 14 | Her response was to revive the tactics of earlier campaigns with chevauchées which might lead to the capture of strongpoints in northern France and put pressure on Paris itself . |
| 15 | I hope that privatisation will not lead to the kind of things that happened after deregulation . |
| 16 | The representations of these bodies can lead to the making of conditions or the reinforcement of conditions which the planning authority wish to impose in the interests of amenity . |
| 17 | It is another act of faith that this will lead to the raising of standards ; it may also , of course , lead to considerable conflict between governing bodies/parents and head teachers and teachers . |
| 18 | Fishing , too , required protection , for the activities of hostile seamen could easily lead to the loss of catches and vessels , for which there was no insurance provision . |
| 19 | Any individual display of selfish or uncooperative attitudes can lead to the allocation of jobs that carry low prestige , smaller annual increments , more limited promotion prospects and which convey a humiliating stigma in the eyes of colleagues . |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the abolition of competitive tendering and the introduction of a national minimum wage would rob the NHS of hundreds of millions of pounds and would lead to the closure of hospitals and the cancellation of operations ? |
| 21 | This has the advantage of involving pupils in oral history work , which may lead to the loan of photographs , documents or artefacts . |
| 22 | However , most Lead Bodies are currently involved in the development work which will lead to the production of standards . |
| 23 | People could not persuade voters that some policies were better than others , for this would lead to the creation of parties , representative bodies whose purpose is to dominate those who are not members . |
| 24 | The latter did lead to the establishment of classes for deaf children , but because the provision of this education was not compulsory , many local school boards evaded their responsibilities and pleaded poverty . |
| 25 | The excessive reliance on a few varieties is making the countryside biologically uniform , and could lead to the proliferation of pests and diseases , according to the report . |
| 26 | The categories and concepts he hammered out in his attack on Idealism — many of them of course drawn from Idealism itself , but refashioned by him — are by no means wholly adequate to serve the restatement of Christian theology , and could indeed lead to the emergence of philosophies quite alien to Christianity itself . |
| 27 | Polozkov saw the two-party system as an attempt to divide and weaken the working class ; he rejected anything that would lead to the emergence of divisions between rich and poor in Soviet society , and insisted upon the dominance of state control and ownership . |
| 28 | The reorganization was recommended by an engineer in the pages of a leading Petrograd journal , since he thought it would lead to the dissemination of experts . |
| 29 | This is particularly important in a three-act ballet where any temptation to display dance ‘ for its own sake ’ can lead to the introduction of divertissements merely to fill in time or show off all the dancers in the company , but is not concerned with the unfolding of the story . |
| 30 | Vertical movement along a fault may lead to the impoundment of streams if they are flowing towards the uplifted block , whereas if they are flowing towards the down-thrown side they will rapidly cut down through the fault scarp . |