Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 2 | Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell . |
| 3 | I 've got two essays to write in the next fortnight . |
| 4 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 5 | William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery . |
| 6 | Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook . |
| 7 | A high cut-off score is necessary since achieving it is taken to indicate mastery of a particular domain , or readiness to proceed to the next level of learning . |
| 8 | They last gave that assurance at the Secretary of State level on the tenth of December ninety two and that was a clear assurance given at that time , that each government has a firm intention to proceed with the next phase of the programme . |
| 9 | Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times . |
| 10 | Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence . |
| 11 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 12 | This rise in spending will raise national income to £1,010 in period t + 1 and this will cause both consumption and investment to increase in the next period , period t + 2 : Notice that both investment and national income have already risen above the levels reached in the previous example . |
| 13 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 14 | People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world . |
| 15 | After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " . |
| 16 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 . |
| 17 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 18 | Wright slowed the pace down with telling effect to romp through the second game , but Wallace came back strongly to take the third . |
| 19 | Also playing are Witney Talent to bulldock in the second division of the Beezer Homes League while Abingdon town makes the short track to Maidenhead United in the Vauxhal League division to Falf . |
| 20 | You can then press the TAB key to move to the second page and enter the identifiers of the additional DCs to be activated via this package . |
| 21 | WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies . |
| 22 | In deciding which combinations to take after the first year of study , applicants should be aware of the entry requirements for both subjects . |
| 23 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 24 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 25 | He also declared his willingness to participate in the second round of the presidential poll and said that UNITA would attend forthcoming multiparty talks convened by the MPLA-PT . |
| 26 | I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train . |
| 27 | Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki . |
| 28 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 29 | Ultimately the test to be applied is that of the magistrates , and they may also take into account such factors as the likelihood that disorder might ensue as a result of what the defendants were doing , and the reasons prompting the constable to intervene in the first place . |
| 30 | We 've had a lot about politics this morning , and if the Labour Party wants to mobilize working women many of them who did n't vote Labour at the last election here is a ready made campaign to take into the next election . |