Example sentences of "lead to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 They are also likely to lead to differences in the way brainstem structures work , since the cerebral cortex of mammals is one of the major sources of input to these areas .
2 On the basis of a 5-4 majority in a Missouri case judged in July , the cases are expected to lead to expansion of the right of individual states to pass laws regulating abortions .
3 Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface .
4 Donkey Lane It was intimated that a considerable number of horses were galloping along this road which was bound to lead to deterioration of the surface .
5 Although initially encouraging , the approach proved to be fruitless and both bodies made independent arrangements within separately developed policies which were to lead to disagreement over the Cambridge Board 's RAC scheme for liberal adult education throughout the region , and which is considered in the next section of this chapter .
6 Almost 80 per cent of Tory voters say they are unlikely to change parties if the NHS plans go ahead , but 70 per cent believe the proposals are likely to lead to privatisation of the NHS , with 62 per cent seeing the changes leading to worse standards of care and treatment .
7 Objects ought to lead to investigations about the society that produced them and the people who used them .
8 Any reduction in orbital speed by the action of an additional force can be shown to lead to shrinkage of the orbit .
9 Remember , we said that increases in bank activity are likely to lead to increases in the supply of money because their liabilities , customers ' deposits , are included in official definitions of money .
10 Direct contact is most likely to lead to infection of the skin , conjunctiva or mucous membrane .
11 Open-market operations ( the purchase and sale of money market securities by the Bank of England ) can have a number of effects : in the short term it can have the effect of tilting the yield curve both upwards and downwards ; in the longer term , by leading to changes in the money supply , it can influence inflationary expectations which in turn can affect the level of the yield curve .
12 The local Labour parties were growing significantly , leading to changes in the Party constitution and in the relative importance of the Left .
13 During 1990 export levels were static or fell in many key categories , including electronics and textiles , leading to concerns about the overall state of the economy .
14 All roads leading to Portrush for the annual motorcycle race today were heavily congested with police re-issuing warnings to race-goers to drive carefully to avoid possible accidents in the area .
15 A BUSINESS almost cleaned out by burglars has put up a reward for information leading to conviction of the culprits .
16 They say any moves to create larger district authorities would be a disaster leading to chaos within the service and widespread job losses .
17 Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements .
18 ‘ If the outcome is favourable and the Government gives consent , construction could start in 1995 , leading to operation of the repository by 2005 , ’ Sir Christopher said .
19 Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council has been found guilty of maladministration leading to injustice by the ombudsman and must pay £1,250 compensation for failing to assess and design adaptations to the home of a disabled man .
20 In liquids and solutions there are several factors leading to broadening of the vibrational band , even in the absence of rotation envelopes .
21 It was suggested in the last chapter that analysis which tends to deal with the nature of modernity itself is always in danger of leading to assumptions concerning the superiority of certain ‘ advanced ’ peoples over others , which are in effect a version of primitivism .
22 The more variable strata will therefore be more intensively sampled , leading to estimates of the population mean or total for this variable that are ‘ optimal ’ in the sense of having smallest possible variance .
23 While American war plans placed great reliance on these bases , the advance of the USSR to nuclear status was leading to reappraisals of the vulnerability of the British Isles to Soviet air attack .
24 This chapter has identified the kinds of problem areas leading to errors in the handwriting recognition system .
25 The ways in which SPAR and CLE-1 tackle the problems were compared , leading to pointers for the development of CLE-2 , which is intended to combine CLE-1 's wide coverage of individual linguistic phenomena with a more robust architecture that is sensitive to the interaction of different processes .
26 Also , the task can be quite daunting ; assumptions and approximations may be required that the originator of the project can not accept , leading to revision of the goals or abandonment of the study .
27 Under the various agreements , Ilo would be developed jointly as a free zone with full industrial and commercial facilities , with Peru allowing free access to Bolivian goods along a route leading to Ilo from the Bolivian border town of Desaguadero .
28 In these cases the fossils show that these features have developed through an ordered series of transformations leading to conditions in the jawed vertebrates .
29 It is hard to estimate exactly how many times the histone H4 document has been recopied in the lineage leading to cows from the common ancestor with peas , but it is probably as many as 20 billion times .
30 A good example of the latter is the transference of commands such as E. coli , from the anal area , to the entrance of the female urethra , leading to infection of the urinary tract .
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