Example sentences of "leading [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Evaluation has its own jargon and this can be a major stumbling block , leading the Working Party on Training specifically to suggest that this should not be allowed to confuse the issue :
2 The bland leading the bland .
3 Follow that philosophy and we go back to the days of the bland leading the bland .
4 As the number of companies leading the law-breaking campaign is small , he has a viable means of enforcing the law but he refused to do so —
5 On his way there the frigate taking him to Suez had called at Jidda to enable him to meet Sharif Husain , the father of Amir Faisal who was leading the Arab Revolt .
6 The show catalogue featured a cover picture on a youthful Leslie Thomas , leading the Dyfed-based family 's Dairy Shorthorn bull which won at Aberystwyth before gaining championship laurels at the Royal and Royal Welsh shows .
7 She sat bolt upright , and there to greet her was St Margaret serenely leading the tamed dragon towards the city .
8 Leading the remaining eight and due to finish today is Bob Salmon in the old maxi , Liverpool Enterprise , formerly Atlantic Privateer .
9 The SDLP seems to be leading the Irish Government and the Ulster Unionists and the DUP are split .
10 We believe there are ways to improve the national diet and that these should be studied and then carried out , ’ says Roden , who is leading the current campaign .
11 It means that the proletariat is leading the entire working nation behind it , that it is responsible for the development of the whole of society , that it is becoming a great collective organiser of the entire national economy , that the direction of development is not towards a widening of the gulf between the fundamental class ( the working class and peasantry ) and that things are not moving towards a ‘ third revolution ’ , etc .
12 The opportunity to discuss problems with members of other district societies was a great assistance to me in leading the various debates of the Southern Society during my presidential year and would certainly not have arisen without the opportunity to travel .
13 ‘ Anyway , I 've obviously got to be here if you 're going to be leading the good life , since I 'm a major component of it . ’
14 Leading the Soviet delegation was Deputy Premier Leonid Abalkin , President Gorbachev 's main economic adviser , who confirmed that future trade agreements would be approved annually by the Supreme Soviet , thus questioning the traditional system of five-year economic plans ( the current one being due to end in 1990 ) .
15 Figueres had become President of a ruling junta ( 1948-49 ) after leading the Caribbean Legion of exiles in overthrowing the autocratic government of Rafael Calderón in the civil war of 1948 .
16 Benjamin Franklin , the official US representative in France , talented inventor as well as an effective diplomatist , considered that Lafayette himself should be in nominal command , with John Paul Jones leading the actual assault .
17 Dundee himself was fatally wounded while leading the final victorious charge , thereby becoming a legend , one of 600 casualties among the Jacobites .
18 Ellen , together with thousands of her comrades from SWAPO will soon be inside the country campaigning for the elections , and come independence will be leading the long hard struggle of reconstructing their country after decades of one of the most brutal colonial occupations .
19 He had mounted the Dragoon 's horse and was leading the tired mare by her reins .
20 If he can not face another five years of leading the Liberal Democrats nowhere , perhaps MI6 can find a job for him .
21 They accuse the gay community of propagandising and leading the young to believe that , if they 're actively heterosexual , then they must be repressing their homosexuality .
22 Many of the commandos , though , died out on the river : Regimental Sergeant-Major A. Moss leading the tiny reserve of 2 Commando 's assault troops was killed swimming in the river after giving his place on a life-raft to a young soldier ; many were burnt in the pools of flaming petrol .
23 Gavriil Popov , a leading campaigner for democratic reform , who had been popularly elected as mayor of Moscow in June 1991 and who had threatened to resign in December 1991 , resigned on June 5 , saying that he wished to devote himself to leading the Russian Movement for Democratic Reforms ( an offshoot of the Movement for Democratic Reforms ) .
24 The trial in Moscow of 12 men , charged with leading the attempted coup in Moscow in 1991 , disintegrated after the judge dismissed the prosecuting team .
25 Instead of leading the Lost Boys , he 's now leading the Lost Executives . ’
26 Instead of leading the Lost Boys , he 's now leading the Lost Executives . ’
27 This they did handsomely , leading the Round Robin qualifying rounds , defeating France , who had been strongly tipped , in the semi-finals and Argentina in the finals .
28 ‘ But Venutius opposed her and civil war broke out with husband and wife leading the warring factions . ’
29 in 1992 , everything ( apparently ) starts with a D. With D-Ream and D-Influence leading the new D-Mobs , it would be a shame if people passed over the name D*Note .
30 Steve Bennett from Ross on Wye … and Kevin Williams from Herefordshire will be leading the Central South challenge
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