Example sentences of "event lead up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has led to cracks in the wall of secrecy surrounding the government 's role in the events leading up to the bank 's collapse in 1982 . |
| 2 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 3 | In view of subsequent denials by all concerned that the King of Prussia had been directly involved in events leading up to Leopold 's decision , it is worth noting that not only was the King present but also the Crown Prince of Prussia , Leopold , and his father Prince Anthony . |
| 4 | This was immediately prior to the Nicholson ‘ star ’ era ; the wave of which he rode the crest was beginning to build and it is interesting to chronicle for a moment some of the events leading up to his ‘ discovery ’ as a major Hollywood personality — a hero of the age and one who , as we have seen , was much influenced by the existentialist prophecies of Kerouac , which were now , finally , coming home to roost in middle-class America and elsewhere . |
| 5 | The account of events leading up to her dismissal and her subsequent reinstatement is skilfully narrated . |
| 6 | We began a series of recriminations about the events leading up to the war . |
| 7 | This would consist of a meeting of staff , preferably with a chairman not directly involved with the work of the team , in which staff members would be encouraged to contribute information concerning the patient and his circumstances which would enable a full picture of the events leading up to the suicide to be established . |
| 8 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 9 | A pilot 's memory for the events leading up to a crash , say , may be totally blocked . |
| 10 | An investigation into the events leading up to his death revealed that Erceldoun had told people he was going down to St. Giles Church to meet a priest . |
| 11 | 2 , Would Denis Faul deny that , in the events leading up to the conviction of the so-called UDR 4 , he passed information to the RUC , conditional upon the following points : |
| 12 | But the prosecution 's description of events leading up to the fire was appalling in its sexist implications . |
| 13 | Later the Treasury claimed Mr Lamont stood by his remarks about events leading up to the pound 's ERM suspension , but apologised for Press comments . |
| 14 | The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion . |
| 15 | There is a certain irony about the events leading up to the 1954 Convention . |
| 16 | The primary liability of the member States could be based upon their failure to supervise the International Tin Council adequately and their actual or constructive knowledge of the events leading up to its collapse . |
| 17 | In a project , this could perhaps involve examining texts such as the different accounts of the events leading up to the Norman Conquest by Anglo-Saxon and Norman contemporary writers . |
| 18 | The events leading up to this have been much studied in the development of the Dipteran puparium , in which the quinones apparently arise by oxidation of a phenolic substrate N-acetyldopamine , itself derived from tyrosine ( Karlson and Sekeris , 1966 ) . |
| 19 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 20 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
| 21 | The first was a detailed breakdown of the events leading up to the assassination of the Edict Minister , Lwo Kang , ten years earlier . |
| 22 | However , a sociological explanation needs to be more holistic than this , and it is not normally sufficient merely to regard the events leading up to a strike as its cause . |
| 23 | However , scrutiny of the events leading up to the 9 July announcement suggests that this decision was a result not so much of Soviet ‘ opportunism ’ as of the policies of the Eisenhower administration and the brinkmanship of Fidel Castro . |
| 24 | Thus , the judge should focus the attention of the jury upon ‘ the state of mind of the victim immediately before the act of sexual intercourse , having regard to all the relevant circumstances , and in particular the events leading up to the act , and her reaction to them showing their impact on her mind . ’ |
| 25 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 26 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 27 | Back at the very beginning , we are told the events leading up to the Highland Rebellion , and the battle with the Norwegians . |
| 28 | managing director of Stellex Ltd , looks at the background of events leading up to mechanised food handling and addresses the need for regulation in the industry . |
| 29 | Exactly how much could be gained from the support of a saintly patron can best be seen by turning to the position of Gregory at Tours , in particular to the events leading up to his trial , for purportedly slandering queen Fredegund , at Berny-Rivière . |
| 30 | The case of the seven bishops was an important turning point in the development of events leading up to the Revolution , marking the defeat of James 's attempts to win Nonconformist support for his policies of toleration . |