Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This distinction manifests itself in the fact that the " see that " paraphrase fits the second sentence very well but is very awkward for the first . |
| 2 | As Blackstone put it : ‘ the law can not draw the line between different degrees of violence , and therefore totally prohibits the first and lowest stage of it ; every man 's person being sacred , and no other having a right to meddle with it , in any the slightest manner . ’ |
| 3 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 4 | This work records the last photographic journey of his life : to Cyprus . |
| 5 | It comme morates the fiftieth anniversary of a famous commando raid , which changed the course of World War Two in the Atlantic . |
| 6 | The typical justification for undergraduate courses involves the last of the issues related to academic courses : the distinction between ‘ content ’ and ‘ process ’ . |
| 7 | When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us , so the time that wave crest takes to reach us will be less than when the star was stationary . |
| 8 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 9 | I do notice one or two places , though , where Ciccolini departs form the Durand text — e.g. he plays the fourth and sixth quarte of the study in fourths as E and A instead of G and C , and the second quaver in bar 10 of the final ‘ chords ’ study is a G minor chord where G major is printed ( though we get G major in the reprise at 4′18″ ) . |
| 10 | Third , and most important , the quinte part in the ballet is not playable by a late 17th-century oboe band : it lies too high for the bassoon and too low for the taille de hautbois , the tenor oboe that plays the third line . |
| 11 | And for my taste it fulfils the first law of festivals — it 's fun . |
| 12 | In the twentieth chapter , significantly after the cross and resurrection , he shows how Jesus fulfils the second part of Old Testament expectation for the Messianic Age by breathing upon his disciples , charging them with his mission , bidding them continue his role of proclaiming remission of sins to the penitent and judgment to those who refused to hear , and saying to them ‘ Receive the Holy Spirit ’ ( 20:22f ) . |
| 13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE END Lord Young looks on as Paul Reichmann drives the first pile at Canary Wharf in 1987 . |
| 14 | Again in the interests of compactness , a single pinion on the primary shaft simultaneously drives the fourth gear pinion on the upper secondary shaft and the fifth gear pinion on the lower secondary . |
| 15 | The tellers look first at who receives the first preference on each ballot paper and put into each candidate 's box every ballot paper on which he is number one . |
| 16 | As already stated , he receives the first referrals . |
| 17 | While the book charted his passage through Chicago , New York and finally Los Angeles , it largely skips the first two circles of hell . |
| 18 | Enoch builds the first city . |
| 19 | The Proteo has been engineered with a view to taking over from the SZ after Zagato builds the 1000th car late next year . |
| 20 | Thus , uniformity of form and substance constitutes the second minimum legal prerequisite of a public bill of lading registry . |
| 21 | The operation of news values constitutes the second set of pressures . |
| 22 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 23 | The catalogue constitutes the first ever monograph on the artist . |
| 24 | Together with Caedwalla 's grant of land in Battersea in Surrey , also to the monastery of Barking ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , it constitutes the first sign of an extension of western Saxon influence north of the Thames and an indication of potential development . |
| 25 | * The aim of the review that constitutes the next two major sections of this chapter is largely methodological . |
| 26 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 27 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 28 | Roger Pringle , director of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust , signs the first letter for the Stratford-on-Avon Group at their stall set up in the town centre . |
| 29 | Like the rest of the glass , he wrote , it defies the second law of thermo-dynamics . |
| 30 | The machine correlates the reports of all the agents and then relays the next set of instructions . |