Example sentences of "[be] lead [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marginal tax rates of over 100% and the sheer size of the unrelieved ACT mountain are leading to increasing pressure on the Government from industry . |
| 2 | These various gases — carbon dioxide , oxides of sulphur and nitrogen , ammonia , methane , and CFCs — pumped out from domestic fires , cars , industry and agriculture , are leading to atmospheric changes that have profound ecological consequences . |
| 3 | In the Galápagos Islands , for example , the attractions of natural beauty and a unique wildlife are leading to serious environmental problems . |
| 4 | The problem is particularly acute in poor rural areas such as Kwazulu and the Transkei , where fuelwood needs are leading to rapid depletion . |
| 5 | Be sure to wear a face mask and safety goggles ; there could be lead in old paint |
| 6 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 7 | But if we are not to be led into false beliefs , it is necessary to realize exactly what the mystic emotion reveals . |
| 8 | And with great generosity , he prayed that Clare would not be led into mortal sin — if indeed she had not already fallen . |
| 9 | The sceptics did not deny that by means of what was traditionally called an ‘ empirical ’ sign we might be led to indirect knowledge of something temporarily hidden : smoke from over the building is a sign that there is a fire behind . |
| 10 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 11 | Arshile Gorky , Jasper Johns , Robert Rauschenberg , Cy Twombly , Brice Marden and Roy Lichtenstein were names which Mnuchin mentioned to The Art Newspaper , a list which supports the view of those observers who believe that the contemporary art market 's revival will be led by renewed interest in the leading post-War American masters . |
| 12 | But he never explained how it is that we can so easily be led by involuntary desire . |
| 13 | I contracted from the local community unit a nursing team that would be led by general practitioners and would form a true practice based primary health care team . |
| 14 | Course design should be led by educational objectives , and not by research perspectives . |
| 15 | They endorsed a committee , to be led by Christian Fouchet , the French ambassador to Denmark , to consider the matter . |
| 16 | It might thus be led by special paths counter to the flow in one way streets , across pedestrianised zones or bus-only areas or through breaks in culs-de sac . |
| 17 | Ireland 's challenge will be led by Brief Truce , who runs for the first time since accounting for both Rodrigo de Triano and Arazi in the St James 's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot . |
| 18 | Goblin units must be led by Big Bosses , or else you need to find some other way to improve their leadership or combat resilience with magic items or standards . |
| 19 | England are led by new captain Gary Havelock , of Bradford , with Poole 's Marvyn Cox , returning to his former track , their oldest rider at 27 . |
| 20 | Classes are led by experienced staff , usually by staff at the drama school where the course is held , and at the end of the five weeks groups will present mini-production projects to each other , on which they will be assessed , and they will usually be given a certificate for having attended the course . |
| 21 | City observers suspect some of the group 's banks , who are led by National Westminster and Barclays , may have refused to sign cheques to allow the payment of the dividend which is believed to cost about £7 million . |
| 22 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 23 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the stunning improvement in telecommunications in this country in the past 12 years has been led by British Telecom ? |
| 24 | These were overtaken by the Government 's plans to deregulate the British securities market , announced in 1983 , which were to lead to Big Bang . |
| 25 | Unrest and revolution were in the air , and strikes , sit-ins and lock-outs were leading to political instability and an increasing possibility that the old machine would be destroyed . |
| 26 | The site needed to be shifted back to the regulation of life itself ; to the study of sound offspring and to the elimination of all those racial poisons ( alcoholism , venereal disease , feeble-mindedness ) which were leading to national degeneration . |
| 27 | Looking in from the street is a great pleasure , the eye being led through interesting vistas of rooms and courtyards within . |
| 28 | While there , he was able to forget the ritual of Monday morning when , in the darkness of winter or the bright light of summer 's early dawns , Celtic Crescent and the streets of Jewtown would be clamorous with the noise of horses being led from nearby stables and harnessed to carts , of men shouting instructions and calling to each other in Yiddish and English as they struggled under the weight of trunks and knapsacks stuffed to overflowing with clothes , fancy goods , kitchen articles , holy pictures , enlargements of family photographs — anything that might be suitable for selling from door to door on a weekly-payment basis . |
| 29 | The liberals had been defeated and the Unionist Party was once again being led by traditional unionists . |
| 30 | The revolts he mentioned were being led by dissident army officers in Sumatra and elsewhere . |