Example sentences of "led [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 2 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 3 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
| 4 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
| 5 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 6 | It had backed up against the patio , completely concealing the ornate wall and steps that led down onto the gravelled walks . |
| 7 | So Lewis drove down to the bottom of South Parks Road , where he was ushered through into the University Parks by a policeman on duty at the entrance to the single-track road which led down to the bathing area . |
| 8 | Beyond the tower a narrow path led down to the rocky shore below . |
| 9 | A gentle stroll through the gardens led down to the beautiful long , wide beach . |
| 10 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 11 | The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge . |
| 12 | A farm track led off to the left opposite , flanked by deep drainage ditches . |
| 13 | She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing . |
| 14 | The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness . |
| 15 | ( 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | From her seat she could see the winding road that led up to the elegant gateway of Casa Madrid , and she could even see the sprinklers sending blessed water swirling over the melon and pineapple fields . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Ben stood before the shallow flight of steps that led up to the main entrance , his head tilted back as he studied the frontage . |
| 25 | The path ended at the wide stone steps that led up to the main entrance of the lodge . |
| 26 | This wedge-shaped promontory that led up to the isolated rock on which the castle itself stood was nowhere quite sheer , and stunted trees rooting precariously in its crevices afforded cover for one solitary boy , though they would not have hidden an approach in numbers . |
| 27 | Casually , keeping a light touch on Haminh 's mind , she wandered over to the metal ramp that led up to the residential walkway , encouraging Haminh with light touches to turn into the gangpath instead of walking straight past to her own doorway . |
| 28 | A band called Eric And The Good Good Feeling and a stint with EMI led up to the original UFI deal and now finally maybe Frankë 's time has come . |
| 29 | Downstairs there were two rooms , and a short staircase led up from the front door to two attic bedrooms with tiny skylights in the roof . |
| 30 | At one extreme , there could be a continuous process in which a sort of chain reaction of biochemical processes in a particular ensemble of cells led inevitably from the early , vulnerable phase through to a final fixed form , like the hardening of glue or the developing of a photograph . |