Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] lead [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in some cases it can be fatal , or may lead to permanent handicap such as deafness or brain damage . |
| 2 | Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) . |
| 3 | Talk was of a minor disciplinary measure by management that might lead to industrial action . |
| 4 | Any organisms that might lead to increased release of carbon dioxide , or methane , are clearly not to be welcomed in a world that is currently experiencing warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect . |
| 5 | In the aftermath of the Police Strike , senior officers were doubly concerned to prevent the kind of rank-and-file interaction that might lead to common cause against their superiors . |
| 6 | to carry out a double-blind trial that could lead to clinical use of the product . |
| 7 | In a news conference reported on Portuguese radio on April 9 , UNITA vice-president Jeremias Chitunda said that resolution of the conflict was contingent on the signing of a ceasefire agreement and the holding of free , fair and internationally monitored elections which , he said , " make up an indivisible component of the process that will lead to lasting peace and national reconciliation in Angola " . |
| 8 | Land acquisition , site assembly , land reclamation , infrastructural improvement and environmental enhancement are the means through which it engages with local authorities , the Department of Environment and most importantly , the private sector to lever investment that will lead to economic growth . |
| 9 | Two projects commissioned by the European Commission — the competitiveness of the Community 's ‘ tradeable service sector ’ relative to Japan and the USA , and the ‘ identification of the technical devices that will lead to new service activities in the next 10-15 years and the role which these new services might play in European society ’ — were completed in 1985 . |
| 10 | Steve Platt finds that the people who sold their votes are not necessarily Labour supporters ; Missing millions Did vanishing voters tip the electoral scales , asks Jolyon Jenkins ; Culture of contentment The western world seems set on a course that will lead to great violence in our cities , says J K Galbraith ; On the clothes line The Paris fashion industry employs illegal immigrants at knock-down wages , reports Nyta Mann ; Symbolic injustice The importance of the Rodney King case is that injustice was done , and was seen to be done , says Alexander Cockburn |
| 11 | The western world seems set on a course that will lead to great violence and conflagration in our cities . |
| 12 | Furthermore , he believes that business and technical managers are polarised in their views — the former see systems engineers as simply interested in technology for technology 's sake , adopting a piecemeal approach to business rather than building systems that will lead to enhanced company profits . |
| 13 | The pursuit of equity through redistribution taxation is not the only distortion that can lead to allocative inefficiency . |
| 14 | Maternal diet is only one of the many factors that can lead to fetal growth retardation . |
| 15 | They point to statistics which show that salt intake is ‘ far in excess of need ’ and may lead to raised blood pressure in susceptible adults , and that if everyone reduced salt intake by half a teaspoon a day , it could save 40,000 premature deaths per year . |
| 16 | For a ramped acceleration/deceleration control the task of excitation timing is particularly arduous and may lead to excessive storage requirements , cause the length of each step during acceleration and deceleration occupies a separate storage location . |
| 17 | Among possible factors are human activities ( notably grazing and deforestation ) , which promote desertification and may lead to local climate change , and changes in sea surface temperatures in the southern hemisphere , which may themselves be linked to global warming and/or the increasing incidence of ocean current changes such as the El Niño effect . |
| 18 | But there have been warnings against this — both from black parents and from the conservative popular press — and these are helping teachers to re-evaluate multicultural education and to consider much more fully why it is of benefit for all children and should lead to increased achievement and awareness amongst our pupils . |
| 19 | A ROW over a million tons of cooking oil seeds threatens thousands of British jobs and could lead to spiralling price rises on our High Streets . |
| 20 | The general answer is that you may copy a sound cassette or a video tape or disc for private use , but if it is copied again and again for commercial gain it is a clear breach of copyright and could lead to legal action . |
| 21 | Some practitioners complained that it was to difficult to estimate in advance and could lead to aggressive underpricing which may affect the quality of the work . |
| 22 | I think that to support this motion would be extremely unfortunate and would lead to potential disaster , not for the county council but indeed for the Highfields community . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , the enthusiasm for protecting everything ‘ natural ’ is too often misplaced and can lead to unnecessary confusion in the minds of a large population of consumers who actually owe their lives , their health and an enviable standard of nutrition to the responsible use of pesticides , medicines , preservatives and other ‘ artificial ’ chemicals . |
| 24 | According to COSLA officials , it can result in a potential loss of houses at prices which provide unduly favourable discount entitlements to individual purchases and can lead to unredeemed debt charges having to be met by remaining tenants . |
| 25 | Five or six in use at one time is usually too many and can lead to distorted work . |
| 26 | FIVE OR SIX PIGMENTS IN USE AT ONE TIME IS USUALLY TOO MANY AND CAN LEAD TO DISTORTED WORK . |
| 27 | ‘ Struggles ’ are between collectivities — as supports of heterodoxy versus orthodoxy — and can lead to socio-cultural change . |
| 28 | Another theory is he was suffering from a rare viral infection which enlarges the heart , and can lead to sudden heart failure . |
| 29 | The Methane produced on landfill sites is very explosive and can lead to severe illness if inhaled to a great extent . |