Example sentences of "led [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Upstairs I found that all the balconies led off one long room , where children , dressed in green kerchiefs and black-and-red culottes , were dancing to the accompaniment of a guitar band . |
| 2 | He himself , wounded , had been led off that bloody hill by his own esquire . |
| 3 | The canal route led through pleasant scenery and was more congenial in every way apart from being quite hard work through the many locks . |
| 4 | Starting with the magnificent writing table attributed to Boulle ( a rare example of bad display at the Frick — stuck away in a corridor ) , we are led through such aspects as ownership of designs , similar pieces by different ebenistes , the marchands-merciers and their relationship with their gilt-bronze manufacturers . |
| 5 | Looking in from the street is a great pleasure , the eye being led through interesting vistas of rooms and courtyards within . |
| 6 | In 1953 the Men 's Fireside , now led for several years by Dr Mathews , came into being . |
| 7 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 8 | Another victory in the incandescent heat of Austria , where Stewart had led for twenty-three laps , brought Emerson to Monza with the title within his grasp : he needed just three points to clinch the championship . |
| 9 | They lead Bushbury , who have led for most of the season , 5–1 in their eight-game match after the first session of play . |
| 10 | Eastern province won four of their six matches to end on 28 points , but were chased all the way by the young orange Free State side , led for most of the summer by the 22-year-old Hansie Cronje . |
| 11 | Always lying handy as Coco Dancer led for most of the trip , Limeridge took up the running from Coco Dancer going to the last fence and at this stage was hotly pursued by the favourite Canute Express . |
| 12 | Planned before the Gulf war , it formed part of the government 's privatization programme which had led between 1987 and 1990 to the privatization of some 80 state-owned businesses . |
| 13 | Couples 's task was made all the easier by a sad collapse of Craig Parry , who had led after three rounds but flinched , it seemed , from the prospect of becoming the first Australian to win the Masters . |
| 14 | A gloomy , whale-ribbed corridor led after half a kilometre to a moist cloacal side-passage aglow with lichen where ventilator gargoyles exhaled dazing smouldery fumes . |
| 15 | However , the static quality of such maps could be replaced when research on ecological energetics , or nutrient cycling and on population dynamics led towards greater use of net primary productivity ( NPP ) , which is the material actually available for harvest by animals and for decomposition by the soil fauna and flora or their aquatic equivalents . |
| 16 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 17 | While the objections to this point of view are obvious — we can be led into all manner of belief by wishful thinking — it coincided with the beginnings of a general desire to re-open the discussion which Locke had apparently concluded for good and all . |
| 18 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 19 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 20 | But Franca while remaining seemingly so calm , friendly and kind , had refused to be led into any woman-to-woman conversation about ‘ how things were ’ . |
| 21 | But if we are not to be led into false beliefs , it is necessary to realize exactly what the mystic emotion reveals . |
| 22 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 23 | And with great generosity , he prayed that Clare would not be led into mortal sin — if indeed she had not already fallen . |
| 24 | ‘ The more I followed one character 's life , the more I was led into those of several other characters , ’ he says . |
| 25 | Falsely you were led into This Outside of Rain and Cold and Sleet and Humans and Order , and Yet it Will become Worse ; iv . |
| 26 | The 1988 Gold Cup victor led until two out , where lack of fitness told , and he finished third , 11 lengths behind the winner . |
| 27 | The symposium was held in September as announced in ‘ Voice ’ to complement the previous course led in 1991 by Carol and Lindsay . |
| 28 | Finally , I have argued that urban sociology 's key concern is the division between everyday life being led in small-scale localities and the fact that social relations and processes are increasingly organised at a global level . |
| 29 | Investigations of processes initially functional in nature have begun to remedy deficiencies perceived in the early 1960s , have led to some new visions , and have also led in two directions . |
| 30 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |