Example sentences of "[noun sg] lead [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A narrow stairway led up to the third floor where an unmarked door opened onto a plush modern office reception area with a deep-pile fawn carpet dotted with pot plants . |
| 2 | It is in the classic pattern for the fifteenth century hôtel ; built round a courtyard and with an entrance doorway leading up to the Medieval stairway in the centre of the court façade . |
| 3 | In the case of the UK 's crossroads , for example , that approach pays scant attention to the break-up of the UK 's position at the centre of the Sterling Area and Commonwealth trade in the 1970s , or to the responsibility of unions , management , the financial system and the state for manufacturing industry 's poor productivity growth and hence declining international competitiveness during the long boom leading up to the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s period . |
| 4 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
| 5 | THE England ‘ B ’ tour to New Zealand could prove to be a mixed blessing thanks to an insufficiently competitive provincial itinerary leading up to the two ‘ tests ’ against a New Zealand XV at the end of the tour . |
| 6 | A trail of ash led down to a ragged , greasy jacket , buttoned with extreme strain over two pullovers which reached to just above the knee of oiled and dusty denims . |
| 7 | Do the postures continuously , in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading in to the next . |
| 8 | The postponement — announced at the beginning of the year and rationalized on the grounds that , with legislative and presidential elections due to be held in 1992 , a third set of elections would have involved undue expense — was also condemned by a growing number of student protesters and threatened to become a key issue in the campaign leading up to the presidential elections in December . |
| 9 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
| 10 | Marie had no time to think about Bella 's story : the little queue surged forward and they found themselves inside the double doors in a short corridor leading through to the main ward . |
| 11 | Opposite a café and shop , a tall , sparse wood leads down to a dramatic view of the Falls , a cataract powerful enough to feed a local hydro-electricity station . |
| 12 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 13 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |
| 14 | The terrace of the dining room leads out to the freshwater swimming pool and there is a pizzeria and bar on the beach . |
| 15 | This point leads on to a further problem in sampling — which is non-response . |
| 16 | Obviously , it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process . |
| 17 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 18 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 19 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 20 | In the period leading up to the actual fight , first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension . |
| 21 | He analysed local government spending and labour-force figures in the post-war period leading up to the late 1970s . |
| 22 | A short wall leads up to a horizontal break where good runners can be placed . |
| 23 | Two stone steps and a low wide door in the far wall led up to a smaller kitchen , and beyond that was the gloomy pantry where trussed birds and enormous rounds of butter and cheese were stacked on cold stone slabs . |
| 24 | The lift leading down to the diving area was only twenty feet away . |
| 25 | Sin , pain and death were linked together ; all three belonged inescapably to our transitory existence in an imperfect world , and each link in the chain led on to the next one . |
| 26 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 27 | It brings you first to the Lac d'Orédon , which is a genial , pine girt spot , and from which another , rather more dubious road leads off to the left up to the dam of Cap-de-Long . |
| 28 | Beyond the tower a narrow path led down to the rocky shore below . |
| 29 | There 's a swimming pool and sauna , and a path leads down to a private lakeside beach , and being a castle style hotel , there 's plenty of style . |
| 30 | A path led up to a level terrace from which one entered the tombs . |