Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To catch a 141 at this time of night will take all the faith Ludo has . |
| 2 | Carlisle sales rep Ian Cass made the short journey to top shore mark Balcary Point in south west Scotland to catch a 22 lb 8 oz cod . |
| 3 | Try to catch a dozen or so adult ladybirds or larvae and place them in your aphid cage . |
| 4 | Based on the Teesside Development Corporation 's ‘ renaissance ’ project along the river banks and old docklands , the museum is expected to attract a million visitors a year from its opening in 1995 . |
| 5 | The long-serving boss was adamant that he wanted total commitment and effort in the build-up to the tie , which is expected to attract a 2,500 all-ticket crowd to College Road . |
| 6 | The long-serving boss was adamant that he wanted total commitment and effort in the build-up to the tie , which is expected to attract a 2,500 all-ticket crowd to College Road . |
| 7 | A BID by 1,000 battle games fans to re-enact a 1642 Civil War clash ended with 19 of them hurt and five in hospital . |
| 8 | Hundreds of bus company workers have been voting on whether to accept a six per cent pay cut . |
| 9 | The involvement of the ministry led Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to accept a 10 per cent cut in his salary for three months in order to assume responsibility for the scandal . |
| 10 | There was considerable variation in the tolerance to the procedure with one patient able to accept a 52 minute rotation time . |
| 11 | However , 19 regional unions at the state oil company PETROBRAS were reported to have voted to accept a 98 per cent increase . |
| 12 | Equally , employers in the wool and worsted industry , having failed to get wage reductions in 1929 , forced the textile unions to accept a 9 per cent reduction in wage rates in June 1930 , after a ten-week lock-out . |
| 13 | Okun feels that the price set by Rawls on equality is too high but in this context he would be prepared to accept a 60 per cent leak Okun ( 1975 , p. 94 ) . |
| 14 | Okay , so I 'm going to do ten take away , now I 'll put some brackets where that six was I do n't want to write a six , I 'm going to write it as five add one . |
| 15 | It 's got you need to write a hundred words or less what you want to be older and plans for the future . |
| 16 | For example , the goal ‘ to create a work of art ’ , has the objective , ‘ to write a 10,000 word short story by the end of the year ’ . |
| 17 | Since you can not issue CLI " dot " commands from the keyboard , you will need to write a CLI command file using PipeDream in order to redirect the printer input or output . |
| 18 | These findings are consistent with our early experience , when attempts were made to isolate a 10 cm segment of oesophagus between two occluding balloons in six subjects . |
| 19 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 20 | One group on low income who will lose out consists of those people living in areas where the poll tax is levied at a higher rate than the Government calculates , and who in consequence will have to meet a 20 per cent poll tax bill that is larger than that calculated by the 20 per cent met by the Government . |
| 21 | On four , there was a proposal to establish a two hundred and fifty thousand pound contingency capital sum , against which bids could be made for schemes that would bring down action grant , and I would 've su thought that scheme number four would be a bid against that two hundred and fifty thousand erm , contingency . |
| 22 | The so-called Winter of Discontent ( 1978–9 ) generated even more anti-trade-union sentiment , especially as Labour 's attempt to establish a 5 per cent pay norm led to strikes by lorry drivers and the low paid and produced television scenes of ‘ mountains ’ of uncollected refuse ( Scraton , 1985b ) . |
| 23 | However , when play resumed Hendry came out with all guns blazing and thumped in breaks of 54 , 55 and 81 to establish a 6-3 lead . |
| 24 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 25 | The 25-year-old Ghanaian-born Bethnal Green fighter twice floored Drummond to secure a 118½-116 decision from referee Adrian Morgan and claim the crown vacated by new European champion Robbie Regan . |
| 26 | While attempting to jump a five bar gate near Chesham the horse became stuck with its forelegs over the gate and hindlegs behind it . |
| 27 | An estimated 5,000 public-sector health workers , taking action against government privatization plans , were joined on strike in late June by 8,500 banana workers , who came out both in solidarity with them as well as to demand a 60 per cent wage increase to offset the effects of the government 's March austerity plan . |
| 28 | Mr do you want to have a ten minute break while you consider this question of whether you would be prepared to advise the panel that you would be a you would accept an amendment to the key diagram to show one star or what ever it is you have used on the key diagram to indicate A fifty nine relief road proposal ? |
| 29 | Latest tests seem to indicate a 100 per cent correlation between certain modes of abduction imagery and the way the subject was born . |
| 30 | They signed two protocols which amounted to an attempt to revive a 1987 security protocol directed against the Kurdish separatist guerrillas of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) , which Syria had not implemented . |