Example sentences of "of [noun] lead [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr G 's emphasis on the creative potential of physics leads him to see it as an ‘ arts subject ’ ; Dr L , on the other hand , sees the differences between the sciences and the arts as ‘ enormous ’ . |
| 2 | This kind of mourning leads us to side with the poor , and to take action alongside them . |
| 3 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 4 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 5 | Kristeva 's more recent interest in the practical or healing function of psychoanalysis leads her , in ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , to consider the therapeutic aspects of narrative . |
| 6 | Davide skipped the list of signatories and went on : ‘ The late Don Antonio 's interest in the thought and teachings of Pythagoras led him , the family allege , into heresy , and ultimately in his last days , into dementia praecox , aggravated by the debilitating epilepsy from which he had suffered since his middle years . |
| 7 | Observations of Freddy led them to conclude that dolphins use sonar while hunting . |
| 8 | This sort of evidence leads me to the conclusion that the continents , rather than sailing about the earth until they met in catastrophic collisions , separated and came together again repeatedly along the same general lines . |
| 9 | The whole crew landed safely at Aberdeen at the end of August 1882 , having survived the winter because lack of provisions led them to live on fresh meat , thus avoiding scurvy , and because of Smith 's quiet leadership . |
| 10 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |
| 11 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 12 | Their increasing interest in the New Testament and the Life of Christ led them to concentrate on poverty and preaching — which previous authorities had seen to be dangerous . |
| 13 | ( ‘ Doctor ’ was a title which people used somewhat freely when the heat of argument led them to assert their tribal group was the one most qualified by objective criteria of modernity to rule a district . ) |
| 14 | The implementation of policy leads us into many aspects of nature conservation not necessarily just on the Council 's own land but as you work for Fife Regional Council you will understand the ramifications of local authority influence . |
| 15 | Does experience of life lead you to agree or disagree with what says ? |
| 16 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 17 | He seems to have allowed his awareness of the different native languages of Britain to lead him into defining Oswald 's Anglo-British imperium in excessive terms . |
| 18 | This chapter is about the way in which the existing predicament of teachers leads them to become stressed , and it is also about whether stress is inevitable in such circumstances or not . |
| 19 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 20 | There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die . |
| 21 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 22 | Freud did this , even though his explicit view of science led him to think the scientist should not make judgements of this kind . |
| 23 | Kuhn 's study of the history of science led him to notice that there are sometimes abrupt conceptual revolutions in science and to ask why they occurred . |
| 24 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 25 | Probably the same dislike of children led her to desert me immediately after my birth , and also caused her only to return on that one , fateful occasion when she was at least partly responsible for my little accident . |
| 26 | Consideration of the duration of unemployment leads us to the possibility that a significant proportion of the unemployed could be short-term — perhaps less than four weeks in duration . |
| 27 | The cycle of death leads us on towards the urban landscape that follows . |
| 28 | Normally Peter played at outside-right , but a combination of events led him to have several useful and productive spells at centre-forward , and he also played at inside-right and at outside-left for us . |
| 29 | His research into the possible use of guerrillas led him to champion preparations for all types of irregular operations , although he could make little headway against the traditional thinking of those directing military operations . |
| 30 | Sometimes our resistance to the idea of dependence leads us to a degree of enthusiasm which can impair our judgement about need . |