Example sentences of "leading to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although both were linked to the PKI , there is no evidence that either of them had knowledge of the events leading to the coup . |
| 2 | Your cheeks like damask , the soft white loveliness of your breasts , leading to the firm dark mountain peaks of your , Laura , now I 'm dreading which part of my body he will choose next on which to turn the great white beam of his fucking sincerity . |
| 3 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 4 | Miss Abernethie jumped from her chair , scuttled in the direction of the broad flight of steps leading to the road outside , tripped clumsily over Jilly Jonathan 's big crocodile-skin handbag , fell to her feet , scrambled up again , pushed the heavy bag aside with a cry of rage that came oddly from her dumpily respectable self and ran off out of sight . |
| 5 | Extensive searches revealed a series of tyre marks along the fairway leading to the 15th and there are fears that Sir Vivien , reputed to be one of the seventeen richest men in the country , may have been kidnapped and held to ransom . ’ |
| 6 | Angles between these produce an output which varies as the cosine of the angle , leading to the familiar figure-of-eight polar diagram for directional sensitivity . |
| 7 | American helicopters hovered near the Panamanian Defence Forces headquarters , and US soldiers in combat gear took up positions a few hundred yards away to block a road leading to the canal . |
| 8 | He said US soldiers had sealed off roads leading to the Panama Canal before the coup attempt , and that US aircraft had circled the combat areas . |
| 9 | US officials say privately that Washington promised the rebels that American troops would block two key roads leading to the headquarters of the Panamanian Defence Forces ( PDF ) . |
| 10 | They had wanted an outright victory leading to the expulsion of all ‘ fundamentalists ’ , whereas the document allows everyone to join the new party . |
| 11 | His support for , and contribution to the process leading to the establishment of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference ( SADCC ) , in 1980 , was another manifestation of his commitment to the cause of African development . |
| 12 | On reaching the crossroads , we moved quickly to the right , and up the very dusty road leading to the village . |
| 13 | About twenty feet from the trench , in the centre of the dirt track leading to the road two Commandos were standing peering into a large hole in the ground . |
| 14 | Yesterday morning at the crossroads leading to the village a jeep carrying wounded Airborne troops received a direct hit by a mortar bomb killing everyone on board . |
| 15 | As the jeep moved away at speed I could still hear him shouting , then it was gone in a cloud of dust , road leading to the beaches to join the other wounded waiting to be shipped back to England . |
| 16 | No doubt the Germans are aware of the increased activity this side of the Orne , particularly on the road leading to the village . |
| 17 | Yesterday evening I went through the village and along the road leading to the village that had been attacked on the evening of the 12th June . |
| 18 | First of July — there is a lot of activity on the road leading to the village but still no sign of a German attack or , more important , an Allied breakout . |
| 19 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 20 | I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village . |
| 21 | I joined a group of five Frenchmen as they got onto the sunken road leading to the orchard . |
| 22 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 23 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 24 | The ice eventually came , small snow fields at first leading to the vastness of the great glacier. pleasure was dawning and so was the sun . |
| 25 | Even access is not encouraged , and the tracks leading to the caverns are also closed . |
| 26 | You know that there are many paths leading to the house and from the house , but : ( a ) You do not know how many there are , where they come from , or where they go to . |
| 27 | This comprises a shower room and WC , a dry-goods store , a larder , the passage leading to the third bedroom and the kitchen . |
| 28 | February was wet , with gales that howled up the valley and rattled the glass doors leading to the verandah . |
| 29 | Conservative CIDs , for example , have all sorts of tricks to frustrate an incoming radical chief superintendent , by which they can legally send clear-up rates into a tailspin — so leading to the rapid transfer of the reforming senior officer . |
| 30 | The US announced it will pay a $1 million reward for information leading to the general 's capture . |