Example sentences of "events leading [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pilot 's memory for the events leading up to a crash , say , may be totally blocked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This has led to cracks in the wall of secrecy surrounding the government 's role in the events leading up to the bank 's collapse in 1982 . |
| 4 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 5 | We began a series of recriminations about the events leading up to the war . |
| 6 | This would consist of a meeting of staff , preferably with a chairman not directly involved with the work of the team , in which staff members would be encouraged to contribute information concerning the patient and his circumstances which would enable a full picture of the events leading up to the suicide to be established . |
| 7 | The diversity of factors and problems suggests that no single preventive measure is likely to be relevant to all patients , and that effective prevention will have to include different procedures at the various stages in the chain of events leading up to the suicide attempt . |
| 8 | 2 , Would Denis Faul deny that , in the events leading up to the conviction of the so-called UDR 4 , he passed information to the RUC , conditional upon the following points : |
| 9 | But the prosecution 's description of events leading up to the fire was appalling in its sexist implications . |
| 10 | Later the Treasury claimed Mr Lamont stood by his remarks about events leading up to the pound 's ERM suspension , but apologised for Press comments . |
| 11 | The scene is set for the events leading up to the Crucifixion . |
| 12 | There is a certain irony about the events leading up to the 1954 Convention . |
| 13 | In a project , this could perhaps involve examining texts such as the different accounts of the events leading up to the Norman Conquest by Anglo-Saxon and Norman contemporary writers . |
| 14 | Here , Tiny Rowland concludes his version of events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser with a first-hand account of the situation in question against the background of his personal experience in business . |
| 15 | In the following example from the Foreword to A Hero from Zero , Tiny Rowland presents a summary of the events leading up to the Fayed brothers ' acquisition of the House of Fraser . |
| 16 | The first was a detailed breakdown of the events leading up to the assassination of the Edict Minister , Lwo Kang , ten years earlier . |
| 17 | However , scrutiny of the events leading up to the 9 July announcement suggests that this decision was a result not so much of Soviet ‘ opportunism ’ as of the policies of the Eisenhower administration and the brinkmanship of Fidel Castro . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 20 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 21 | Back at the very beginning , we are told the events leading up to the Highland Rebellion , and the battle with the Norwegians . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In cases involving accidents at work , and in factory cases in particular , your own client or a close work colleague may be able to ask around to see if anybody actually saw the accident itself or can give background information about events leading up to the accident . |
| 24 | Were you involved inspector , in the events leading up to the search of ? |
| 25 | Police are wanting to find out the events leading up to the death , and work out the motive for the killing . |
| 26 | The police have staged a reconstruction of events leading up to the murder of parttime model Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common . |
| 27 | He was one of a number of witnesses who described their view of events leading up to the crash in Swindon last year . |
| 28 | Investigators are still trying to piece together the events leading up to the blast , which destroyed the ground floor of the house on the outskirts of Wigan . |
| 29 | Lord Justice Woolf will look into the events leading up to the violence and the action taken to end it . |