Example sentences of "[noun sg] lead up to the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 7 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | In the period leading up to the actual fight , first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension . |
| 10 | He analysed local government spending and labour-force figures in the post-war period leading up to the late 1970s . |
| 11 | A bare wood staircase led up to the first floor , which comprised a bathroom and two bedrooms . |
| 12 | Overall , the swing in our panel over the year leading up to the 1987 election was 5 per cent , but among persistent readers of Tory tabloids it was 12 per cent , and among persistent readers of Labour tabloids only 1 per cent . |
| 13 | There had once been an outside staircase leading up to the flat roof but that , too , had collapsed . |
| 14 | Just the splendid staircase leading up to the three doorways at the entrance and above that the tall windows of the first floor gallery , all open to the sky , gazing on emptiness . |
| 15 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 16 | Immediately behind the Treib-haus a good footpath leads up to the left , soon passing into an asphalted track which enters the TreibSeelisberg vehicle road . |