Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Facing him was the main front door , the door that led to the outside world . |
| 32 | After wandering about for a while she finally got her bearings and found the splendid staircase that led to the grand hall and the main entrance . |
| 33 | The door to the short flight of stairs that led to the two topmost floors was locked . |
| 34 | ‘ By 1976 , the Government decided it had to act and that led to the first TV campaign with the line ‘ Do n't take your car for a drink ’ . ’ |
| 35 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 36 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 37 | Prior to describing his method , and that perfected by his brother John , it is necessary to examine in detail the state of the art that led to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century experiments , culminating in the most celebrated of the Hunterian ‘ mummies ’ , Mrs Maria Van Butchell . |
| 38 | The error of 1987 that led to the 1990s depression |
| 39 | Chris Novoselic ambled up to say ‘ hi ’ and bemoan a chronic hangover — the inevitable punishment for a late-night sesh with support band Teenage Fanclub — and Dave Grohl soon emerged from down the rampway that led to the sun-baked arena , all smiles as ever . |
| 40 | It was Ali 's martyrdom that led to the great schism in Islam between Sunni and Shia ; but here the Victory Arch becomes confusing . |
| 41 | It was the repercussions of this relatively minor event in the Balkans that led to the Great War as it was called , the First World War . |
| 42 | Wandered along the path that led to the little clearing . |
| 43 | In particular , problems of the calendar were the driving force that led to the initial development of Greek mathematical astronomy in the last decades of the fifth century BC . |
| 44 | With a choice of either a direct line up the centre of the face or a buttress to the right that led to the unclimbed south ridge of the mountain , the team opted for the buttress approach , avoiding serious stonefall on the direct line . |
| 45 | After a moment , she spun on her heel and stalked across the platform to the door that led to the large communal dressing-room . |
| 46 | Ellen Solomon and Walter Bodmer first pointed out that the variation in human gene sequences represented a powerful new mapping tool , which laid the basis for studies that led to the human genome project ( in which the entire genome will be mapped , characterised functionally , and eventually sequenced ) . |
| 47 | These images paled before the man who came through the archway that led to the deeper mysteries of the church . |
| 48 | It was an unremitting struggle that led to the overriding , abolition , co-optation or subordination of the inherited liberties and assemblies of society — vested in manors , villages , communities , provinces and estates — to achieve an unprecedented degree of centralization in the leading power in this respect , France . |
| 49 | During the summer , when Sirius rises heliacally , only twelve of these divisions of the sky can be seen rising during the hours of darkness , and it was this that led to the twelve-hour division of the night . |
| 50 | From Morpeth Gate we turned right following the path towards Swinithwaite , striking off at a kink in the lane to the field gate that led to the ruined Chapel of the Knights Templars . |
| 51 | Among the material contained in the KGB files are the Soviet version of the attempted CIA assassination of Fidel Castro ; the biography of a high-level Soviet scientist known as Tolkachov whose spying on behalf of the CIA during the 1980s led to a devastating penetration of the Soviet radar defence system and , in 1987 , Tolkachov 's execution ; and the revelation of joint CIA–KGB operations during the Gulf war that led to the pre-emptive destruction of much of Saddam Hussein 's offensive missile power . |
| 52 | A brief moon between clouds outside sharpened the lines of boxwood that led to the wooden gate . |
| 53 | Paris awarded it to Aphrodite , beginning a chain of events that led to the Trojan War9 . |
| 54 | They rounded the bend to see a landing-stage of rough piling and a mud track that led to the main highway and the bridge . |
| 55 | The passages that led to the main suite were stark and uncarpeted , the room he was led into the same . |
| 56 | Several hundred yards away , Riessa was in a strange humour as she strode down the worn steps that led into the hollow heart of the Wyrmberg , followed by half a dozen Riders . |
| 57 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 58 | She had reached the top of the narrow wooden stairs that led into the single upper-storey chamber she shared with her mother . |
| 59 | If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist . |
| 60 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |