Example sentences of "leading [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still there , a gap where a gate should have been , leading on to a rutted farm track . |
| 2 | Since fires often start at night , and most homes only have one flight of stairs , which may well be unusable , it pays to work out in advance possible escape routes from upstairs windows — ideally one leading on to a flat roof , otherwise one with a flowerbed or grass below , rather than a hard surface . |
| 3 | French windows stood open leading on to a strip of highly polished , red tiled terrace . |
| 4 | Some worksheets may begin with simple lower order questions , leading on to a higher order question . |
| 5 | Strands of wool are loosened by the prolonged sucking and may be swallowed , leading eventually to a blockage of the cat 's intestines , requiring surgery . |
| 6 | If the gain there is large enough , these new modes burst into oscillation : if not , transphasing continues to a renewed coincidence with the oscillating frequencies , at which point an inverse period-doubling cascade ensues , leading eventually to a steady-state response . |
| 7 | The seminary itself is difficult to see , the approach from the road leading only to an imposing wall with faceless windows and a usually , barred door It was built by San Carlo Borromeo in 1564 and is square , the four walls enclosing a courtyard that measures 56 metres on one side and is surrounded by a double tier gallery , each floor of which is supported by double Doric columns . |
| 8 | A few feet south of the CBR entrance was a side entrance to the hotel leading down to a beer parlour on one side and the spacious Hotel Cafeteria on the other . |
| 9 | Potted shrubs of sombre green flanked a flight of broad , shallow rockfoam steps leading down to a doorway covered by thick curtains of the darkest purple . |
| 10 | There were five stone stairs leading down to a wooden floor and a narrow stone corridor . |
| 11 | I asked what was the oldest part of the farm and was shown a flagstone path leading down to a valley . |
| 12 | They were standing in a narrow hall , with a bicycle propped against one wall and stairs leading down to a basement . |
| 13 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 14 | There are occasions during which you turn away from the opponent , but these are deliberate and short-lived , leading in to a particular technique . |
| 15 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 16 | The Treaty went on to state : ‘ This Treaty marks a new stage in the process leading gradually to a union with a federal goal ’ . |
| 17 | The practical result of such policies is an increasingly inefficient system of book provision , leading gradually to an inadequate stock . |
| 18 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 19 | A pilot 's memory for the events leading up to a crash , say , may be totally blocked . |
| 20 | The days leading up to a major championship meeting are always very tense , very difficult , and the second World Championship in Rome was no exception . |
| 21 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 22 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 23 | Obviously , it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process . |
| 24 | No woman feels her best during the period leading up to a period . |
| 25 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 26 | Sampling might also involve time phasing as in attempting to detect opinion trends leading up to a general election . |
| 27 | However , a sociological explanation needs to be more holistic than this , and it is not normally sufficient merely to regard the events leading up to a strike as its cause . |
| 28 | Bob will also supervise the Challenge which is organised in a series of heats leading up to a final where the outright winner will be presented with the Driver of the Year trophy . |
| 29 | The house is cool inside , the hall wide , with two pillars and a staircase leading up to a landing with a high round window . |
| 30 | Likewise , a path of sand and stones leading up to a triptich centred on a long industrial corridor with female figures int he images either side battling as if caught within transparent plastic , their head hidden behind their arms , is marked by a continuous figure-of-eight swirl on the sand . |