Example sentences of "lead to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 2 | The danger of the current developments is two-fold : that they are likely to lead to the curriculum becoming dominated by technique ; and that the techniques in question are imported from the outside world , and are imposed arbitrarily upon , and unconnected with , the curriculum . |
| 3 | In other words , the doctrine of the internality of relations together with the thesis of the independence of substance seems logically to lead to the position of ontological monism ; conversely , the monist thesis seems necessarily to presuppose the thesis of the internality of relations . |
| 4 | The general election which should have come by 1940 seemed unlikely to lead to the return of a majority Labour government but it was postponed because of the declaration of war on 3 September 1939 . |
| 5 | It is not ground for objection that the information sought will be inadmissible at the trial if the information sought appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence . |
| 6 | Research programmes will be progressive or degenerating depending on whether they succeed in leading or whether they persistently fail to lead to the discovery of novel phenomena . |
| 7 | Around Calais , construction work will create a massive new rail terminal and a road system to lead to the tunnel at Calais . |
| 8 | These changes in the international competitiveness of UK exports and imports are likely to lead to the development of a UK balance of payments deficit . |
| 9 | Proposals likely to lead to the development of ideas or resources of use to others will be given priority . |
| 10 | This system is extremely basic but the results are convincing enough to lead to the development of a large scale recogniser . |
| 11 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 12 | When he built a bungalow for himself at Kinmel Bay in 1971 it was the start of a house-building career which was to lead to the receiving of important awards at national ceremonies in top London hotels . |
| 13 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 14 | This helper first massages the feet of the subject , then the head , and finally guides him or her through a mental exercise intended to lead to the regression itself . |
| 15 | This figure is non-committal as to the precise mechanism likely to lead to the generation of passive margin upwarps as it illustrates secondary convection as well as non-uniform ( depth-dependent extension ) and the effects of lateral heat flow into unthinned lithosphere . |
| 16 | But it may yield an agreement to establish a constitutional framework most likely to lead to the pursuit of well-founded ideals , given the information available at any given time . |
| 17 | MR MAJOR raised the stakes in the final phase of the election campaign last night with a passionate warning that Labour and Liberal Democrat policies threatened to lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 19 | Neither change was by itself sufficient to lead to the formation of an ozone hole . |
| 20 | Glasgow , Swansea and Leeds competed as venue of the Congress which was to ratify the constitution and to lead to the formation of a British organisation of the deaf and dumb . |
| 21 | Two processes seem likely to lead to the formation of black holes . |
| 22 | Loss of N 2 is presumed to lead to the formation of a nitrene , SiMe 3 N : , but this is unstable , and rearranges to give the observed product . |
| 23 | Such intrusions , which rarely attain the dimensions of batholiths , are known as lopoliths and their layered structure tends to lead to the formation of series of outward-facing scarps as they are exposed by erosion . |
| 24 | Moreover , the resulting decline in council housing has begun to lead to the rise of the ghetto . |
| 25 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 26 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 27 | Security along the frontier would be strengthened and information likely to lead to the capture of criminals and deserters would be exchanged . |
| 28 | This was the customary right to seize wrecked ships and their cargoes enjoyed by people living on the coast and which was believed to lead to the abuse of " wrecking " . |
| 29 | The two king-size beds are covered with a floral patterned fabric , the kind worked over and over in consumer tests to lead to the choice of the one that consistently causes the least offence . |
| 30 | Step 6 List the triggers that seem to lead to the behaviour . |