Example sentences of "[noun sg] leading [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Have , in contrast , eliminates any reference to a tension leading up to the realization of the infinitive and represents the latter as being " already in the bag " . |
| 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 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 6 | Do the postures continuously , in graceful slow motion with each exercise leading in to the next . |
| 7 | It is convenient to reproduce the summary of the English legal position concerning the taking of evidence by consuls and similar officers , a summary prepared as part of the preliminary work leading up to the Convention : |
| 8 | In the passage leading back to the northbound platform of the Northern Line they stopped in a corner , the man got out his mouth organ and the bear began to dance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The referendums had been called after it became clear during the campaign leading up to the June Maastricht referendum that the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could clash with EC rights to freedom of movement and information [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 11 | When a sheep died or was slaughtered , they would sometimes pack the entrails into a hessian sack and lower it into the beck leading out of the reservoir just below the Hauxwell property . |
| 12 | We stopped at the far end just under the small choir loft where there was a recess leading up to the tower . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Through the open French window leading out into the garden , Matt could see Cindy sitting on a swinging bench with Emma 's children on either side of her . |
| 15 | I left Bainbridge by the lane leading out of the village from the Post Office . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Doorways opened off this stone passage right and left , one to give access to the porter 's lodge , the other to a stairway leading up to the gatehouse itself , above the pend , from which the drawbridge and portcullis were managed . |
| 18 | The wedge of light lying on the open stairway leading down from the hatch fanned out and a voice draped in icicles called : |
| 19 | Soon after my mother had died , I had noticed a gap in the familiar contours of the furniture in the room leading out of the sitting-room — it was where the shop had once been , entered then via the yard gate and a large open porch . |
| 20 | Only once was a jarring note struck , and that was when Roger referred to the long room leading out of the kitchen as the ‘ museum ’ . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) That the bank manager , Mr. Williams , was unaware of the circumstances existing between the wife and the husband leading up to the execution of the charge . |
| 22 | True enough , the preparatory process leading up to the summit has got badly bogged down , and the number of logjams to be cleared between now and June will keep the UNCED secretariat in hectic action 24 hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 23 | On Dec. 21 the Assembly also adopted without a vote Resolution 45/211 which stressed the need to maintain " the balance between the environmental and developmental dimensions " during all stages of the preparatory process leading up to the UN Conference on Environment and Development " scheduled for 1992 [ see p. 37433 ] . |
| 24 | The debate on overseas government expenditure in the crucial period leading up to the sterling crisis of 1947 can be characterized , in broad terms , as a battle between Dalton and Attlee on the one side , and Bevin and the service chiefs on the other . |
| 25 | Many cotton warehouses displaying gridded elevations reminiscent of those of the mills themselves were erected in central Manchester , ‘ Cottonopolis ’ in the period leading up to the start of World War I , and the later the building , the more elaborate and showy was the architecture . |
| 26 | However , in the period leading up to the birth of nationalism , this small number of literates formed a politically important minority . |
| 27 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 30 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |