Example sentences of "leading [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since fires often start at night , and most homes only have one flight of stairs , which may well be unusable , it pays to work out in advance possible escape routes from upstairs windows — ideally one leading on to a flat roof , otherwise one with a flowerbed or grass below , rather than a hard surface . |
| 2 | It was still there , a gap where a gate should have been , leading on to a rutted farm track . |
| 3 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
| 4 | If the gain there is large enough , these new modes burst into oscillation : if not , transphasing continues to a renewed coincidence with the oscillating frequencies , at which point an inverse period-doubling cascade ensues , leading eventually to a steady-state response . |
| 5 | The seminary itself is difficult to see , the approach from the road leading only to an imposing wall with faceless windows and a usually , barred door It was built by San Carlo Borromeo in 1564 and is square , the four walls enclosing a courtyard that measures 56 metres on one side and is surrounded by a double tier gallery , each floor of which is supported by double Doric columns . |
| 6 | There were five stone stairs leading down to a wooden floor and a narrow stone corridor . |
| 7 | It has over four hectares of terraced gardens leading down to the rocky shore where you can swim in the sea or swimming pool . |
| 8 | The lift leading down to the diving area was only twenty feet away . |
| 9 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
| 10 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 11 | He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall . |
| 12 | When he peeped through the gap he could see the big half-pillars supporting the lintel , the rounded stone steps leading down to the paved walkway and the wilderness of garden beyond . |
| 13 | Even her little house was somehow in keeping with this picture , although it was definitely not St John 's Wood and there was no delicate wrought iron balcony with steps leading down to the green garden . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I leant against a chestnut , one of a bib of trees leading down to the Wild Garden . |
| 16 | Across the back of the house was a kitchen , a bathroom and a big breakfast room with steps leading down to the back garden . |
| 17 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 18 | There are occasions during which you turn away from the opponent , but these are deliberate and short-lived , leading in to a particular technique . |
| 19 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 20 | In the wet , the broad ridge high up to the left is preferable , leading along to the conspicuous profile of Alport Castles — a huge landslip where millions of tons of shales and grits slid forward to create a spectacular feature above the hamlet of Alport . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The practical result of such policies is an increasingly inefficient system of book provision , leading gradually to an inadequate stock . |
| 23 | Example 2:9 Right of way : limited times The right in common with the landlord and all others having the like right at all times between 8.30 am and 6.30 pm on weekdays and between 8.30 am and 1.30 pm on Saturdays ( but not on public holidays ) to pass and repass on foot only through the main entrance to the building of which the demised property forms part and over the stairs and corridors leading therefrom to the demised property ( c ) Lifts A right to use a lift may be implied in the case of a letting on , say , the tenth floor of a block ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) or where it would be inconvenient and uneconomic for the tenant to use the stairs ( Dikstein v Kanevsky [ 1947 ] VLR 216 ) . |
| 24 | Sampling might also involve time phasing as in attempting to detect opinion trends leading up to a general election . |
| 25 | The days leading up to a major championship meeting are always very tense , very difficult , and the second World Championship in Rome was no exception . |
| 26 | Obviously , it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process . |
| 27 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 28 | It consists of four Sundays leading up to the great Feast of Christmas , four weeks of waiting and expectation . |
| 29 | The debates over the merger had precipitated a number of leadership changes in the old parties and alliances in the months leading up to the final agreement . |
| 30 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |