Example sentences of "lead up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists of four Sundays leading up to the great Feast of Christmas , four weeks of waiting and expectation . |
| 2 | The debates over the merger had precipitated a number of leadership changes in the old parties and alliances in the months leading up to the final agreement . |
| 3 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |
| 4 | When he reached the steps leading up to the front door of the Guild Office , he found the place in darkness , with no sign of life . |
| 5 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 6 | In the period leading up to the actual fight , first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension . |
| 7 | It will also examine the response of fans to structural and cultural changes in Scottish soccer , following the Taylor report on safety , and leading up to the 1994 World Cup Finals . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me about Jules , ’ he said as they approached the stone steps leading up to the arched doorway into the château . |
| 9 | None of Doherty 's publications lasted very long , but they were an important part of the general ferment of radical ideas in the years leading up to the Chartist movement . |
| 10 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 11 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 12 | That street was wide , long ( leading up to the famous suspension foot-bridge ) and ideal for the playing of games such as football and rounders , and the chasing of girls into the mouths of tenements ( called ‘ closes ’ ) wherein we played at Mammies and Daddies . |
| 13 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 14 | There had once been an outside staircase leading up to the flat roof but that , too , had collapsed . |
| 15 | There is a certain irony about the events leading up to the 1954 Convention . |
| 16 | The days leading up to the fifth anniversary of the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station , in the Soviet Ukraine , were marked by a series of reports on the consequences of the accident ( which occurred on April 26 , 1986 — see pp. 34460-62 ) . |
| 17 | In the negotiations leading up to the Anglo-Irish Agreement , O'Brien believes there was a recognition that joint administration was unobtainable . |
| 18 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 19 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 20 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 21 | IT 'S THE TIME OF THE karāti , THE NIGHTS LEADING UP TO THE full-moon festival , when the gods enter the dhāmis and use their bodies to dance among the villagers . |
| 22 | Over the next few years leading up to the 1995 World Cup there 'll be plenty of time to slot in replacements as they are needed — particularly to the front-five where Jason Leonard will probably be the only one available for the next tournament . |
| 23 | Overall , the swing in our panel over the year leading up to the 1987 election was 5 per cent , but among persistent readers of Tory tabloids it was 12 per cent , and among persistent readers of Labour tabloids only 1 per cent . |
| 24 | In a project , this could perhaps involve examining texts such as the different accounts of the events leading up to the Norman Conquest by Anglo-Saxon and Norman contemporary writers . |
| 25 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 26 | All Western diplomats had left Kabul in the weeks leading up to the Soviet troop withdrawal in February 1989 [ see p. 36448-50 ] , when the United States was predicting the imminent collapse of the Najibullah regime . |
| 27 | The weeks leading up to the seventh round were busy with the launch of various diplomatic initiatives . |
| 28 | The research identifies the areas in which they have survived in sufficient abundance to form the basis of a nationwide sample survey designed to illustrate changes in the level , composition and distribution of household wealth in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 29 | The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses . |
| 30 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |