Example sentences of "[pers pn] lead to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth of the matter is that , despite Nizan 's abiding suspicions of the motives of the French and British governments , the logic of the situation seemed to him to lead to only one solution : a common alliance with the USSR against fascism . |
| 2 | The vast majority of chartered accountants do provide a very high standard of service : as a result , public expectation is high which is why when the relatively few failures do occur , they lead to so much concentrated and adverse publicity . |
| 3 | It led to impossibly puritan attitudes , a crusade against the enjoyments of the artisan , onslaughts on the bullfight , not because it was cruel , but because it wasted working time ; it supported an attack on charity as an anti-social habit , which merged with the bleak belief of later liberals in the virtues of competition . |
| 4 | You know what it led to before . |
| 5 | Because of its incorporation into the ‘ history ’ of mankind it led to totally fallacious ideas which even today unwittingly mislead many Marxists . |
| 6 | The NFR90 project suffered difficulties of that kind and our involvement in it led to almost two years being wasted . |
| 7 | He was saved by the fact that only the wings of the glider struck the cable but it led to more than 250 households having their electricity supplies cut off . |
| 8 | According to this theory the earlier generational pairing was abandoned because it led to so much inbreeding that people who practised the gens system were genetically more fit for natural selection and therefore survived better . |
| 9 | The distinction is important because it leads to yet another paradox inherent in the anorexic predicament . |
| 10 | Investment in some technology can be justified as it leads to more efficient billing . |