Example sentences of "[verb] to [art] [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 2 | On April 30 the Japanese and South Korean Foreign Ministers held talks in Seoul at which it was agreed to relax restrictions currently applied to the 680,000 Koreans resident in Japan , many of whom were descendants of the 2,500,000 Koreans transported by the Japanese colonial administration for use as forced labour . |
| 3 | For instance in a tank dishwasher roughly 90 litres of rinse water are dosed to every 100 litres wash water dosed . |
| 4 | It is useful to refer again to the practice guides which the then ABAFA produced to the 1975 Children Act ( 1976 and 1977 ) ( and which were criticised by Tunstill ) . |
| 5 | Christie , who stormed to the 100 metres title in 9.96 seconds , was even quicker to condemn the authorities for allowing the drugs saga to reach the Olympics . |
| 6 | I commented to Ladislav on the coincidence of eights in Czech history : 1618 when Ferdinand 's deposition led to the Thirty Years War ; 1918 when Czechoslovakia was founded ; 1938 and Munich ; 1968 and Dubček . |
| 7 | That led to the Hundred Years War , and in the summer of 1346 , Edward III landed in Normandy and that led to the battle of Crecy on 26th . |
| 8 | Lurgan cruised to a five wickets victory over CYM at Terenure . |
| 9 | During 1907–8 , although a local committee was formed by the ETS to study the " female question " , priority went to the 50 hours campaign , which was finally settled in February 1909 , thus leaving the way clear . |
| 10 | However , the optimum childbearing age differs among the WFS countries ; in many of them , it falls to the 20–29 years age group , in some others to the 30–39 . |
| 11 | Controversial American sprinter Butch Reynolds marked his return to championship racing following the end of his drugs ban by powering to the 400 metres crown in a new championship record 45.26secs . |
| 12 | Extending to the 6–16 years age range of Braybrook , we would predict a population of up to 150 from which the better speakers of his 22 were chosen ; Conrad 's figure excludes those placed in ordinary schools . |
| 13 | The Social Work Department duly acknowledged the receipt of letters sent to the nine children care of the department . |
| 14 | He returned to the workhouse and was promptly sent to the Three Counties Lunatic Asylum at Arlesey . |
| 15 | They had to wait 20 minutes for a train to take them back the way they 'd just come from , then hire cabs to return to the Five Ways area . |