Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] to the development of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The widespread use of prophylactic antibiotics has contributed to the development of a dependence on their effectiveness and less emphasis on the importance of surgical principles , a breakdown of isolation procedures and the establishment of antibiotic-resistant and virulent bacteria in hospital . |
| 2 | These ex gratia payments have attracted media attention which has contributed to the development of many myths about redundancy payments generally ( Levie et al . , |
| 3 | The rational approach has led to the development of PPBS ( planning-programming-budgeting systems ) and ZBB ( zero-based budgeting ) systems . |
| 4 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 5 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 6 | The work has led to the development of a conceptual framework for a period which is both a phase and a process . |
| 7 | The vast expense of the prison system has led to the development of various non-custodial alternatives . |
| 8 | This has led to the development of Diagnostic Related Groups ( DRGs ) — a method of ‘ classifying inpatients into a manageable number of groups , which are both clinically meaningful and homogeneous in resource use ’ ( Culyer and Brazier , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | A present broad hypothesis is that policy making networks in the UK are more fragmented than in Germany which has led to the development of inconsistent policies , which have not always been effectively implemented . |
| 10 | Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures , involving more sophisticated techniques . |
| 11 | The introduction of Local Area Networks ( LANs ) and large workstations has led to the development of Open Systems Integration ( OSI ) in which different machines can be operated within a single network running whatever operating system is appropriate for specific applications on individual workstations . |
| 12 | Our research programme has led to the development of high-performance electrodes and poison resistant catalysts , both of which are critical factors in the development of a practical system . |
| 13 | Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures , involving more sophisticated techniques . |
| 14 | This situation makes it difficult to use basal colonic motility as a basis for comparisons and has led to the development of provocation tests in a controlled environment in an attempt to characterise differences between groups of patients . |
| 15 | The application of the Treaty provisions to actual cases has led to the development of the following principles : Exhaustion of rights : where the right owner has put articles into circulation ( directly or with his consent ) he can not subsequently use his rights to prevent further dealings in respect of those articles . |
| 16 | Here the convergence of the African and Eurasian Plates has led to the development of successive thrusts and nappes carrying huge masses of rock northwards towards the European foreland ( Fig. 3.19 ) . |
| 17 | But a number of passive margins appear to have experienced uplift either during or soon after rifting which has led to the development of continental-margin upwarps which stand higher than landsurfaces further inland . |
| 18 | Interpretations of these sedimentary sequences in conjunction with morphological and structural evidence has led to the development of numerous models of the tectonic evolution of passive margins . |