Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it leads " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Principles ’ of his title are those ‘ of Human Knowledge ’ , and what motivates his objection to materialism is that it leads to scepticism and atheism . |
| 2 | At roughly the same time Terence said , ‘ Another objection to Christianity is that it leads to passive acceptance of social inequalities because the real rewards are in … ’ |
| 3 | Apart from the obvious point that it fails to produce uniformity its principal defect is that it leads to the application of a particular national law which is likely to have been devised for domestic transactions and may well be ill-suited to those which are international in character . |
| 4 | So even if we agree that abolition was his intention and that that intention would have failed , if we consider also that it was mistaken anyway , we need pursue the point no further , except to add this : granted that the evil of insufficiently regulated competition is that it leads ultimately to the vicious exploitation of employees , the point can hardly be made of industrial co-operatives . |
| 5 | The great claim made for perfect competition is that it leads to efficiency . |
| 6 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 7 | Yet the importance of each position , by contrast with other forms of thought , is that it leads , necessarily , to intensive study of the relations between ‘ cultural ’ activities and other forms of social life . |
| 8 | The disadvantage of the latter is that it leads to an untidy looking diagram , although it will reveal lower terraces obscured by high ground in the foreground . |
| 9 | The trouble with fitness is that it leads to mistakes about evolution because it makes people think in terms of qualitative terms . |
| 10 | A consequence of Anderson 's greater interest in certain topics of conversation is that it leads him , on occasions , to create conversational confusion . |