Example sentences of "have not led [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yet this interventionism has not led to the creation of anything approaching an Executive Office .
2 I also find it incredible that the demise of Aldershot has not led to a positive reaction to assist the smaller clubs .
3 This situation has not led to a decline in enrolments : except for a brief period at the beginning of the crisis , the demand for education has been sustained .
4 However , the preference for a ‘ local ’ authority has not led to local government control , considered appropriate for social services .
5 It should be noted that the existence of a published league table has not led to an automatic and immediate improvement in schools at the bottom of the table .
6 Similarly , a recent reduction in the West German prison population has not led to an increase in major crime or made the streets less safe ( Feest , 1999 ) .
7 One of the most notable developments in the Soviet Union , contrary to the confident expectations of Soviet and Western Marxists as well as modernisation theorists , is that rapid socio-economic development in the USSR has not led to any decrease in ethnic attachment among the minority nationalities .
8 Treatment with H 2 receptor antagonists , other anti-ulcer drugs , and triple therapy has not led to any symptomatic improvement , although gastric biopsies became negative for H pylori after triple therapy .
9 The Bank of England ( 1990 ) has concluded that the withdrawal of market participants has not led to a reduction in the quality of service or reduced liquidity or competitiveness in the market .
10 How then was it possible that a similar contradiction in the social formation of India , China , and Peru had not led to similar development ?
11 In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries .
12 They report that in general , the psychiatric outcome was good and that the patients who were not happy about the result were those few in whom the operation had not led to the expected weight loss .
13 Still the previous spills of asbestos in the factory had not led to any action by the workers .
14 The earlier transfer to local authorities of responsibilities previously exercised by the Poor Law Guardians had not led to any rapid improvement in the services ( Wilson 1948:76 — 7 ) .
15 ‘ It is clear that the extensions to permitted opening hours have not led to a marked increase in overall consumption , ’ the report concluded .
16 Although these conditions place a premium on the ‘ intangibles ’ of technical and market knowledge , they have not led to full verticality in the firms ' fixed assets .
17 For the most part , however , the various reassessments have not led to a complete rejection of Marxist theory , but to lively controversy about , and substantial revision of , some of its central concepts — those of class , party , ideology , the state , the capitalist mode of production , the transition to socialism — in the course of which Marxism has been greatly influenced by recent work in the social sciences and the philosophy of science .
18 Those are all positive steps which , it is true , have not led to peace as yet .
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