Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [vb pp] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 6 , with the US Marine force offshore awaiting orders to land , a 100-truck aid convoy with armed guards was reported to have transported the first food aid to leave the port for over a month . |
| 2 | The appearance of playback and CNC robots since 1977 is said to have begun the second generation of sophisticated units verging on being ‘ intelligent ’ . |
| 3 | Even today , tourists may see the claw-marks on a stone where Big Ears was said to have appeared the last time this ceremony was performed . |
| 4 | The Navy can be said to have won the first round of the long-running carrier battle , which was to bedevil Naval-Air relations for the next decade . |
| 5 | To get stuck into Part Two you do n't have to have completed the first instalment , but you DO need to have the password . |
| 6 | La Compania Aquas de Sabadell SA , Sabadell , Barcelona , and Telecom Valles SA , Terassa , Barcelona , claim to have developed the first system in Europe for reading water meters over the telephone . |
| 7 | Thus the F.C.C. was held to have surmounted the first hurdle of entitlement to enter the inquiry , but fell at the second because it had misconstrued the meaning of successor in title . |
| 8 | Well I do n't know if any of those cars run on lead free petrol , but we found a builder who claims to have constructed the first house in the country which is friendly to the environment . |