Example sentences of "lead up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open Forum is to be a conference-led event with both technical and business streams , designed to lead up to 1993 and the establishment of the single European market — and the Commission of the European Communities has been closely involved in its organisation , says Borkovsky , promising more details in the future . |
| 2 | Erm er , very concerned as to what it was going to lead up to up , and hoping , you know , against hope that 's you were n't going to be involved in anything like that . |
| 3 | This is the start of the heavy banqueting season , leading up to Christmas , which should be a busy period for a lot of hotel restaurants . |
| 4 | By 1946 , Ghatak had become a Marxist activist , this was the year that the communal rioting leading up to Partition began in earnest . |
| 5 | This enables Railfreight to cater for a modest increase in international traffic in the years leading up to the opening of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 6 | There was a good ice slope leading up to rime of rocks that would take us to this secondary top . |
| 7 | A further 22 arrested in the raid on Friday , and 51 detained on the Tottenham estate in the week leading up to it , had been charged and would appear in court at a later date . |
| 8 | This idea grows in the poems leading up to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , finding full expression in 1923 when he looks back to his seminar paper , speculating that ‘ primitive man ’ may have |
| 9 | The debate on overseas government expenditure in the crucial period leading up to the sterling crisis of 1947 can be characterized , in broad terms , as a battle between Dalton and Attlee on the one side , and Bevin and the service chiefs on the other . |
| 10 | Many cotton warehouses displaying gridded elevations reminiscent of those of the mills themselves were erected in central Manchester , ‘ Cottonopolis ’ in the period leading up to the start of World War I , and the later the building , the more elaborate and showy was the architecture . |
| 11 | That will prevent MPs scrutinising the report in detail and from questioning Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley about the DTI 's role in allowing Barlow Clowes to operate over the years leading up to its collapse . |
| 12 | For Mrs Thatcher , at loggerheads with many of her own party over European issues , this summit was crucial , as it set the tone for debates leading up to 1992 — not only for European unification but for the next British election in which Europe will be a deciding factor . |
| 13 | In the months leading up to the Stock Exchange 's damning findings , the DTI 's lack of concrete action was probably forgiveable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the months leading up to the Prague autumn , The Slavia played elegant host to a more accurate cross-section of Czech society — punks , housewives , artists , students , writers , weary shoppers — than probably existed anywhere in the country until the rallies in Wenceslas Square . |
| 16 | In the months leading up to them , KANU barons competed to insult multi-party advocates . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 21 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 22 | My helpers borrowed an old flatbed truck from a farmer , along with two dozen squared bales of hay which they arranged as steps leading up to the truck . |
| 23 | Even leading up to the filming , there were doubts about Adrian Maguire riding Cool Ground as he had a previous tie to Omerta . |
| 24 | According to Dr Judith Haynes of the educational psychologists ' group Child Consultants , the crucial thing is for parents to gain the child 's co-operation in establishing a revision regime in the weeks leading up to examinations . |
| 25 | The weeks leading up to the start of the European section of the championship at the Spanish Grand Prix on May 3 will see intensive work at their Woking headquarters . |
| 26 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 27 | Each one had a spiral staircase the length of a lighthouse leading up to it and at the top lived a teacher . |
| 28 | Set on a hilltop , the old town is surrounded by seven rows of ramparts leading up to the bastion and cathedral at the summit . |
| 29 | It is now my opinion that the main things to remember if you 're going back to work after having a baby are that as long as you find someone you 're happy with to look after your baby while you 're at work , you 'll be happy and so will your baby , and that you will be able to do the job when you go back , even if the thought of it scares you to death in the months leading up to your return . |
| 30 | In view of subsequent denials by all concerned that the King of Prussia had been directly involved in events leading up to Leopold 's decision , it is worth noting that not only was the King present but also the Crown Prince of Prussia , Leopold , and his father Prince Anthony . |