Example sentences of "road lead to the " in BNC.
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1 | He said US soldiers had sealed off roads leading to the Panama Canal before the coup attempt , and that US aircraft had circled the combat areas . |
2 | US officials say privately that Washington promised the rebels that American troops would block two key roads leading to the headquarters of the Panamanian Defence Forces ( PDF ) . |
3 | Police are keeping a watch on all main roads leading to the site , they say they 'll set up roadblocks if necessary . |
4 | Proceeding south from the West End of Princes Street the Lothian Road leads to the residential districts of Bruntsfield and Morningside and on to the Pentland Hills — R. L. Stevenson 's ‘ hills of home ’ . |
5 | Miranda lay half asleep on a sofa in front of her sitting-room window , which looked down on the Place de la République ; from there , the road led to the distant perfume factory which Miranda wanted to buy . |
6 | From the primitive ‘ animism ’ ( a word invented by him ) the road led to the higher monotheistic religions , and eventually the triumph of science which , capable of explaining increasingly large areas of experience without reference to spirit , would ‘ in one department after another substitute for independent voluntary action the working out of systematic law ’ . |
7 | Continuing through the scattered little climatic resort the road leads to the Heiligenschwendi Klinik , a large hospital originally treating respiratory diseases but in more recent times catering for a wide variety of patients . |
8 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
9 | On reaching the crossroads , we moved quickly to the right , and up the very dusty road leading to the village . |
10 | As the jeep moved away at speed I could still hear him shouting , then it was gone in a cloud of dust , road leading to the beaches to join the other wounded waiting to be shipped back to England . |
11 | No doubt the Germans are aware of the increased activity this side of the Orne , particularly on the road leading to the village . |
12 | Yesterday evening I went through the village and along the road leading to the village that had been attacked on the evening of the 12th June . |
13 | First of July — there is a lot of activity on the road leading to the village but still no sign of a German attack or , more important , an Allied breakout . |
14 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
15 | I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village . |
16 | I joined a group of five Frenchmen as they got onto the sunken road leading to the orchard . |
17 | Police sealed off a road leading to the coast and mounted patrols on the cliffs to stop the looting . |
18 | From Patterdale take the minor road leading to the Patterdale Pack Kennels ( 1 mile ) . |
19 | From here take the left hand fork which eventually merges into a surfaced minor road leading to the hamlet of Ings ( 3.5 miles ) on the main A591 . |
20 | The road leading to the station is called avenue Franklin Roosevelt , though the reality is a little less grand than the name . |
21 | If he could find this gate , he reckoned that there would be a paved road leading to the temple . |
22 | It is a Forestry Commission area , intensively patrolled for fire and there is only one single track road leading to the beach from the village where any nocturnal traffic might cause suspicion . |
23 | About two minutes later Danny 's truck , with us following close behind , turned a corner and there was the slip road leading to the Motorway — only nothing was ever going to get far down that road for there were the four big trucks in Big Ben 's convoy lined up wall to wall across the road facing us . |
24 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
25 | Witnesses said the bus , carrying 49 Britons on a day trip from Cyprus , was driving through an underpass on the main road leading to the Pyramids of Giza when a man dropped the bomb from a bridge above . |
26 | All roads lead to the Butcher Building . |