Example sentences of "to eighth " in BNC.

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1 But , according to documents revealed in court yesterday , four days later Lord Aldington 's V Corps wrote to Eighth Army requesting ‘ a free hand ’ to use force if necessary ‘ to honour our verbal agreement with Soviet forces ’ and return all Soviet nationals to Soviet forces .
2 Current Matchman of the Year John Allerton has made a late surge up the tale to eighth position and although he is always a danger the Tri-Cast Barnsley 's star 's run may be just too late to make the very top .
3 Reynolds , 15th in the world rankings at the start of the season , has improved provisionally to eighth .
4 Reynolds , 15th in the world rankings at the start of the season , has improved provisionally to eighth .
5 There are two new names in the top 10 : Chris Oldfield has risen 10 places to seventh and Michael O'Driscoll moves from 14th to eighth .
6 Leaving Paddy Mayne to bring up what he could in the way of supplies from Kabrit , Stirling set off from Siwa to Eighth Army Headquarters , which he found in turmoil .
7 This must have been agreed , as on 22 February , Major-General Galloway of MEHQ wrote to Eighth Army Headquarters to inform them that after the next series of operations , L Detachment would be withdrawn to re-form up to strength and be retrained as a parachute unit .
8 He then returned to Eighth Army Headquarters , accompanied by Mike Sadler .
9 Later the word was applied somewhat more loosely to capital letters and others of large size , introduced in the fifth to eighth centuries .
10 On the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu in south-east India , the Pallava Dynasty which held sway during the fourth to eighth centuries traces its lineage to Naga ancestors , as do many Royal families in Kashmir in the north of India .
11 After four successive losses and six weeks without a League goal , Graham 's patience with Arsenal — who have sunk to eighth in the Premier League — is wearing thin .
12 It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae .
13 Considerable care was taken in constructing them , in hardwoods , and there is a conformity in the examples known which date from the fifth to eighth centuries .
14 In the USA it has recently slipped in rank to eighth position .
15 But I do I think that would be very useful but we 've got to make sure that we get this assessment started , so , if we do n't get round to eighth year then that 's tough !
16 As Macmillan himself put it in a telegram to the Foreign Office on 11 May [ KP 78 ] , Alexander had asked him to make " a short visit to Eighth Army Headquarters and 13th Corps tomorrow to put Gens McCreery and Harding fully in the picture .
17 Although Macmillan 's diary entries for 12 and 13 May provide the main direct contemporary source for what was discussed on his visits to Eighth Army , 13 Corps and 5 Corps ( there is no military source reflecting the contents of those discussions ) , it should be stated that Macmillan 's account tallies directly with all the contextual evidence for the range of problems which must have been put forward by each side .
18 [ Gen Keightley to Eighth Army , night of 13/14 May 1945 ]
19 Finally 5 Corps stated to Eighth Army : " it would appear that unless these formations are taken over by us as formed bodies and disarmed they will force their way across border as individual bandits plunder the country disorganise economic life our zone and threatened our security .
20 All these points might suggest that , when Gen Robertson sent his signal to Eighth Army on 14 May , at least part of his intention was to give the authorization required for the handing back to Tito of the 200,000 Croats .
21 In respect of the Cossacks , Robertson was simply giving authorization to Eighth Army to carry out a course of action suggested by Eighth Army and " recommended by Macmillan " .
22 It was this which led the following day to Eighth Army 's request for authorization to negotiate with the Soviets for a hand-over , " on advice Macmillan " , and which led to Robertson 's order from AFHQ later that day for negotiations to begin .
23 This was the first specific indication to Eighth Army of the full range of dissident Yugoslavs 5 Corps was proposing to hand over .
24 The conclusions , headed " SUBJECT : Definition of Russian Nationals " , were summarised in the form of an order , signed by Brig Low with distribution to all units and copied to Eighth Army , and we shall refer to this as the " 21 May Definition Order " .
25 In a " Summary of Surrendered Personnel " sent by 5 Corps to Eighth Army and AFHQ on 17 May , under the general heading " Russians " , " about 4000 from 14 Ukrainian Div " are mentioned as still being in the Corps area , along with the main groups of Cossacks , the Caucasians and the Schutzkorps [ KP 142 ] .
26 But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] .
27 AFHQ had given instructions to Eighth Army ( by the " Robertson order " of 14 May ) that " all Russians " were to be handed over to Soviet forces .
28 On the ground , in accordance with the order , 5 Corps had already entered negotiations with the Soviet authorities to take them over , and had come to a final decision ( reported to Eighth Army ) on which groups were to go .
29 15 Army Group had given instructions [ KP 153 ] to Eighth Army on 7 May that surrender can only be accepted of those forces in contact with Eighth Army .
30 AFHQ had given instructions to Eighth Army ( by the " Robertson order " of 14 May ) that all surrendered Yugoslav nationals " serving in German forces " should be handed over to Tito 's forces .
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