Example sentences of "lead to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any grant of papal support or protection , as Alexander II 's support of William the Conqueror 's invasion of England in 1066 , was likely to lead to a request for a quid pro quo or a reminder of a payment due . |
| 2 | It would be difficult for me or for any other minister to have to defend leaving things unchanged in these other areas if the affect of having done so was subsequently to lead to a case of fraud in an investment firm , building society or insurance company which the existence of the duty would have helped to prevent . |
| 3 | If , for example , primary productivity in the region is limited by iron , and iron is becoming increasingly available , the iron stimulation would have to lead to a reduction in upper ocean nitrate and phosphate in the summer over the past 30 years . |
| 4 | A currency union is likely to lead to a reduction in member countries ' natural rate of unemployment . |
| 5 | The use of e-mail , rationalisation of collection points , concentration of staff in the Inverleith Row premises , and reduction in the frequency of collections are likely to lead to a requirement for fewer staff to be deployed on Messenger duties . |
| 6 | Moreover , a cash supplement to income would also be expected to lead to a fall in work effort . |
| 7 | The Government 's reform of local authority finance is therefore likely to lead to a deterioration in local authority services , be they health , education or welfare . |
| 8 | The current expansion and urban growth in the Southern population has also affected the protestant community , and the increased pressure on schools in urban areas , such as Dublin , is likely to lead to a diminution of the protestant-catholic character of most protestant schools , unless deliberate decisions are taken to preserve the balance . |
| 9 | As with many later European voyagers , travel in this part of the world , far from broadening the mind , seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed , colour or class . |
| 10 | So the membrane then hyperpolarizes , but the stimulus is still present , and that 's tending to lead to a depolarization , so we get then this circle of membrane depolarization followed by hyperpolarization , but it 's the calcium activated K channels which are tending to restore the membrane potential to negative values . |
| 11 | A MOTHER lost her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against corporal punishment in school yesterday , but the judgment is not expected to lead to a reintroduction of that form of disciplinary action in Britain . |
| 12 | In sum , any relaxation of marital constraints on women is likely to lead to a rise in the divorce-rate , whether these constraints are ones of tradition or custom or finance . |
| 13 | Christopher Huhne says that this ‘ would represent the lowest growth rate since 1981 and is almost certain to lead to a rise in unemployment ’ . |
| 14 | Losing tended to lead to a disintegration of the group , and the search for scapegoats both within and outside the group ; tasks needs became even more important to the loser ; losing , however , forced groups to re-evaluate their view of themselves and eventually come to a more realistic assessment of what changes were required to make the group effective . |
| 15 | as if his experience was going to lead to a campaign for the rights of corpses or something . |
| 16 | For the foreseeable future , however , the inherent weaknesses of unionization in agriculture seem likely to continue to haunt the N U A A W. The falling number of agricultural workers , the urban influences that are spreading across tracts of once ‘ truly rural ’ countryside and the changing nature of the farm worker 's skills may conspire in any case to lead to a reappraisal of the need for a separate farm workers ' union . |
| 17 | ISRAEL 'S inner cabinet yesterday deferred a decision on whether to accept Egypt 's invitation to convene Israeli and Palestinian delegations for talks designed to lead to a resolution of the dispute in the occupied territories . |
| 18 | ‘ We would n't want to do anything likely to lead to a breach of the peace , would we ? ’ |
| 19 | John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland . |
| 20 | The ACP countries also expressed concern that the aims of the convention would be jeopardized by the planned introduction of a single market in the Community by 1992 , the opening towards East European countries , and the EC 's willingness to grant concessions to third countries under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , all of which were expected to lead to a dilution of aid and benefits for ACP countries and to weaken the EC 's commitment to the convention . |
| 21 | More recently some Universities and Polytechnics developed courses for ethnic minorities — but these when they were focused on developing multilingual skills were not intended to lead to a specialism in minority languages but simply to serve support strategies which fall far short of teaching the languages as such . |
| 22 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 23 | He agreed to preside over a public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee to be held on 10 November 1819 to protest against ‘ the unprovoked , cruel and cowardly attack made on the people of Manchester ’ and ‘ to suggest the means most likely to lead to a reform of abuses ’ . |
| 24 | The issue became hot enough in New Zealand to lead to a meeting between the Prime Minister Mr Bolger and the NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks . |
| 25 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 26 | It appears to lead to a lessening of the constraints imposed upon the individual by the social way of life . |
| 27 | The dispersal of people to increasingly distant suburbs and the growing concentrations of service industries in city centres were bound to lead to a re-invasion by young professionals and executives of inner areas long abandoned to the working class … |
| 28 | The basic education law passed in 1949 gave the responsibility to local , state governments in accordance with the general principle of the government of post-war reconstruction — that decentralised government was less likely to lead to a re-run of the Nazi regime . |
| 29 | Here the negation of the hoped for conclusion is shown to lead to a contradiction ( or absurdity ) . |
| 30 | The arguments given above when taken together seem to lead to a contradiction . |