Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Henley was opened Braid had already won the Open Championship four times and went on to win again in 1910 so becoming the first golfer to win five times . |
| 2 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 3 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 4 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 5 | Sometimes it was like a sit-com , where two characters refuse to speak directly to each other , always using a third party to pass on comments . |
| 6 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 7 | The addition of this weakling to the family of Test nations will seen them merely tolerated as non-profitable visitors , lower on the scale even than Sri Lanka , who are still awaiting a first invitation to play West Indies after 10 years of Test status . |
| 8 | Gradually the old has merged with the new and the grandchildren of the ‘ young couples ’ who moved into the ‘ new ’ houses are now becoming the second generation to attend Keyingham school . |
| 9 | The Abbey is now planning a fifth mailshot to alert them to their windfalls . |