Example sentences of "which led up to the " in BNC.

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1 ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem .
2 Again , there was no direct reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ about the destruction of European Jewry , though the whole section of the report was placed under a quotation from the speech which led up to the passage on the Jews : that in the light of the suffering of the Germans at the hands of others , people should ‘ keep well away from us with their humanitarianism ’ .
3 Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney .
4 This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution .
5 Kelly walked up the steps into the hall of the Garrick towards the wide staircase which led up to the bar , then hesitated .
6 Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included .
7 These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out .
8 She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent .
9 This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation .
10 The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park .
11 He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him .
12 On 19 March the Assembly started a series of debates on a motion to reject Sunningdale and the constitutional arrangements which led up to the conference , and there built up a demand from Loyalists that new elections should be held for the Assembly .
13 He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate .
14 There was a small garden in front of the house , and she hurried along the crazy-paving path which led up to the gabled front porch .
15 Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed .
16 Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support .
17 The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 .
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