Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached .
2 Barry Cooper receiving from a log by Mark Butler went round the defender and the keeper to score the second goal after the twelfth minute .
3 The provision of a Frontier Station at Kensington Olympia , and the decision to site the second London terminal at King 's Cross are also of benefit .
4 Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his .
5 IRELAND have the expertise — they are coached by Munster senior coach Garrett Fitzgerald — and the talent to reach the last eight .
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