Example sentences of "lead up to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A pilot 's memory for the events leading up to a crash , say , may be totally blocked . |
| 3 | Minutes do not in any case include discussions leading up to a decision but only the decision itself . |
| 4 | The house is cool inside , the hall wide , with two pillars and a staircase leading up to a landing with a high round window . |
| 5 | Bob will also supervise the Challenge which is organised in a series of heats leading up to a final where the outright winner will be presented with the Driver of the Year trophy . |
| 6 | Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals , and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up . |
| 7 | If you suspect that this is leading up to a tirade about vegetables suffering pain , flowers having feelings and ants being cleverer than humans , then I am sorry to disappoint you . |
| 8 | No woman feels her best during the period leading up to a period . |
| 9 | Likewise , a path of sand and stones leading up to a triptich centred on a long industrial corridor with female figures int he images either side battling as if caught within transparent plastic , their head hidden behind their arms , is marked by a continuous figure-of-eight swirl on the sand . |
| 10 | To the west across the valley there was a fine view of the easy-angled slopes of the Hinku Nup glacier leading up to the Mingbo La ( 5817m ) . |
| 11 | Eubank has formulated a master-plan leading up to the fight of his dreams — a £1 million title unification fight next September with arch-enemy Benn . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | This latter use raises the question however of describing what is implied as leading up to the realization of the infinitive event , that is , of justifying why the speaker should want to represent the infinitive incident to a support conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |
| 14 | As I fought for bar space to order the drinks , I looked over my shoulder and caught her making hand signals to a bunch of her friends camped on the stairs leading up to the Ladies ' toilets . |
| 15 | Set on a hilltop , the old town is surrounded by seven rows of ramparts leading up to the bastion and cathedral at the summit . |
| 16 | Before the British destroyed the surrounding buildings in 1857 , the Naqqar Khana gave on to an enclosed courtyard leading up to the Diwan-i-am , the forty-pillared Hall of Public Audience , the site of the Imperial Durbars . |
| 17 | The success of Heseltine 's switch of focus was illustrated by a succession of opinion polls in the days leading up to the leadership ballot , all indicating that there would be a huge swing to the Conservative Party were he to become leader . |
| 18 | Foreign news organizations based in Baghdad had been allowed to report freely in the weeks leading up to the conflict , but after the outbreak of hostilities restrictions were introduced on reporting by foreign journalists . |
| 19 | In mitigation Michael Rayner said his client had been deeply depressed in the days leading up to the incident . |
| 20 | The measure of 1932 , which marked profoundly the discussions leading up to the Act of 1944 , was bitterly resisted ( especially in Wales ) and led the president of the Board of Education to argue in the Commons that secondary education should be reserved for ‘ selected children , the gifted and the intellectual ’ from whom ‘ we expect leaders of industry and commerce in the coming generation ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No … ’ she whispered tremulously as he marched across the sand towards the dark lawns leading up to the cottage . |
| 23 | I think it right to bear in mind the evidence of Mr a solicitor now specializing in re-habilitation work who is himself alas wheelchair bound , erm , he has directly relevant experience and he expressed the view that er two ramps leading up to the vehicle from the rear could be unsafe and were in his view generally less satisfactory than the platform with which the conversion equips the Nissan Serena , in those circumstances it seems to me I really have no choice but to er adopt the alternative of the conversion and er there is an agreed figure of thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds in relation to that . |
| 24 | Terms of reference can also describe the documents leading up to the expert 's investigation of the issue . |
| 25 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 26 | The way the time leading up to the event is used , and the success of the coping behaviours employed , may considerably affect its impact ( Parkes , 1982a ) . |
| 27 | When the system was tested in the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly each time . |
| 28 | When the system was tested during the three days leading up to the event , it responded properly on each occasion . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The revival of the Hindu-Moslem dispute , which had played an important part in the November election campaign [ see pp. 36977 ; 37030 ] , had threatened to provoke further communal tensions in the period leading up to the Bihar state assembly elections at the end of February [ see p. 37245 ] . |