Example sentences of "led to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alienation within the present system has led to activity outwith the political system and to the creation of social movements through the need to publicise grievances and uncertainties about everyday life and to urge the necessity of democratising life in these areas . |
| 2 | By the twelfth century , increasingly elaborate drainage schemes had led to contraction of the peat , thereby causing the land to drop ever lower in relation to the menacing waters of the English Channel . |
| 3 | The expected shortfall in social services funding for community care had already led to tightening of the criteria that social workers will use to decide who is eligible for care management , and patients with moderate needs for care might lose out altogether . |
| 4 | Divers dangers The dramatic rise in diving 's popularity has led to fears for the safety of people new to the sport . |
| 5 | The dog dirt problem has led to fears for the health of pupils . |
| 6 | Hostility to the talks had led to divisions within the military itself , between those who supported moves towards national reconciliation and those who believed that the URNG should be denied a political platform . |
| 7 | The survey , costing £85,000 and taking up to two years to complete , has been prompted by American studies which have led to calls for the banning of some chemicals . |
| 8 | These sorts of issues have led to calls for the strengthening of merger policy . |
| 9 | The old Company had paid lavish dividends of about 20 per cent at first , which had led to calls on the shareholders for more capital in the 1690s ; after 1709 the new company paid dividends starting at 8 per cent and declining as the years passed . |
| 10 | Changes of emphasis within art education , which have arisen out of a realization that the skills of response and appreciation do not necessarily result from the practice of art , have led to explorations into the nature of aesthetic experience , enquiries into its patterns of development and attempts to assess the skills and achievements possible within this area ( APU , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Progress in this area has led to developments in the field of knowledge representation , since the appropriate documents can only be retrieved if the content of the text can be matched with the content of the query [ Hirschman & sager , 1982 ] . |
| 12 | The clinical and research developments which have led to changes in the official policy will now be described . |
| 13 | It has led to changes in the law relating to the continued confinement of restricted mental patients ; the release of discretionary life sentence prisoners ; , and regulations on the marriage of prisoners , their correspondence , and access to lawyers . |
| 14 | They might look at how people managed before having piped water and at how piped water and sanitation have led to changes in the home . |
| 15 | Hillary is aware that some of his efforts to help the Sherpas and their environment have led to threats from the pressures of tourism . |
| 16 | They have also led to improvements in the managerial skills of staff in these organisations . |
| 17 | This compares with around three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 and has led to criticism of the £15 million advertising campaign . |
| 18 | The case had led to criticism against the Government for taking a ‘ do nothing approach ’ . |
| 19 | It is probably time that this was reconsidered ; in secondary schools it has led to absurdities like the daily dose , the thirty-five minute lesson , and the conviction that , though all subjects are theoretically equal ( hence the standard four period per week allocation ) some ( English and maths ) are more equal than others , and need a longer allocation . |
| 20 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 21 | In the last decade , various strands of research have led to re-examination of the role of metaphor in language , and to the suggestion that it is a tool for thought . |
| 22 | Local autonomy has also led to variety in the way in which the education system is organised within each LEA . |
| 23 | ‘ But recent events have led to anxieties over the quality of some of these drugs . ’ |
| 24 | This has led to cracks in the wall of secrecy surrounding the government 's role in the events leading up to the bank 's collapse in 1982 . |
| 25 | In this society of ours , many children are led to confusion by the complexity of the life in which they 're placed . |
| 26 | These different criteria have led to confusion in the diagnosis of the tubular or dilated segment distal to the mucosal junction . |
| 27 | The resumption of Norwegian seal hunting in March has led to protests from the World Society for the Protection of Animals ( WSPA ) , which claims that the hunters repeatedly breach Norwegian and international regulations in the ways in which they capture and kill both adult seals and pups . |
| 28 | Although ZANU-PF had won a comfortable victory in the March general election , voter turnout had been low ; the forcing of the one-party issue had led to strains within the party . |
| 29 | Already job prospects had deteriorated because economic reforms had led to reductions in the labour force at many state organisations , where graduates hope to obtain positions . |
| 30 | But it can not be assumed that these developments have in fact led to equality within the sexual sphere of marriage . |