Example sentences of "step leading to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He climbed the steps leading to the central lobby and was stopped by a burly policeman who asked the nature of his business . |
| 3 | Frankie stared towards the shorter flight of steps leading to the landing . |
| 4 | Most of the steps leading to the modern conifers seem to have taken place by the end of the Palaeozoic ; no other group of organisms of such antiquity has retained such an unbroken hold over vast areas of the earth as the conifers . |
| 5 | Later the daffodils would muster , blazing like an army of yellow heads the length of the bank and right up to the steps leading to the old house . |
| 6 | It 's in what was obviously quite a nice terrace at one time , early Victorian or something , with big fat columns holding up the porches and railings on the street and steps leading to the basement . |
| 7 | They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank . |
| 8 | Their high activity is probably the consequence of the efficiency of further steps leading to the formation of an elongation complex . |
| 9 | The overall strength and functional characteristics of a promoter will depend on the efficiency of the steps leading to the formation of each of these complexes , all of which can in principle act as a bottle-neck . |
| 10 | Strong promoters that are negatively regulated by repression factors tend to bind RNA polymerase far below maximal rates , the subsequent steps leading to the formation of an elongation complex being highly efficient . |
| 11 | The room in which they stood was dimly lit ; the double doors at the top of the steps leading to the T'ang 's private rooms were closed . |
| 12 | He runs straight up the stone steps leading to the terrace — it 's part of a small public garden — rounds the urn at the top , and comes face to face with her , with no idea at all inside his head as to what words will emerge from his mouth . |
| 13 | Failure to file the annual return alerts the Registrar and enables him to take appropriate steps leading to the companies ' removal from the register . |
| 14 | The path runs below one of the land arches of the rail bridge with a steep flight of steps leading to the Hawes Inn and Hawes Pier on the Firth of Forth . |
| 15 | They sat on stubby pillars at the bottom of a short flight of steps leading to the parade square . |
| 16 | Eventually we leave and the murderer , hiding on those steps leading to the tower , is granted an additional advantage by Damien locking the door . ’ |
| 17 | She was smiling at the old woman in the window ; she nodded to Melissa as she climbed the two or three stone steps leading to the house . |
| 18 | The lower patio with a flight of brick steps leading to the main garden is organised as an extension of the basement dining room , with lightweight Italian garden table and chairs and more formal pots of lilies , hostas and scented leaf geraniums . |
| 19 | When Patrick came to the door of the aircraft he saw the flight of metal steps leading to the tarmac . |
| 20 | And that there were once five steps leading to the portico which measured — ’ |
| 21 | As friends and neighbours left flowers on the steps leading to the flat , it emerged that Ms Baillie would be unable to have more children , having been sterilised on medical advice after Ashley Anne 's birth . |
| 22 | The knights had forced their way through the gap and along the wall to the steps leading to the parapet above the main gate . |