Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) , supported mainly by members of the scheduled castes , won one Lok Sabha seat and nine seats in the Assembly , where it emerged as the second party , having previously held no seats . |
| 2 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 3 | Does not that show that the Government could best serve the CBI by running the economy in such a way that inflation is kept down and does not reach the levels that it reached under the last Labour Government ? |
| 4 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 5 | Sales of its Unix products will , for instance , outstrip revenues from the DEC versions that it markets over the next year or so , it reckons . |
| 6 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 7 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 8 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 9 | In the past , it was thought that language began when the child uttered the first word , but we now know that it begins with the first interactions and communication shortly after birth . |
| 10 | Indeed it was historic , in that it provided for the first time for the elimination of an entire class of nuclear arms — land-based missiles of intermediate and shorter range . |
| 11 | The MPRP took 56.9 per cent of the vote , only 6 per cent less than it achieved in the first open elections in July 1990 [ see pp. 37609-10 ] , and won 70 of the 76 seats in the unicameral People 's Great Hural ( parliament ) . |
| 12 | Presumably , therefore , internal migration exerted no more impact , and probably less , on the British population structure than it had in the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | What these Discourses show is that ‘ science ’ still meant something wider than it does in the twentieth century ; what the lecturers were encouraging was realistic assessment and sound judgement . |
| 14 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 15 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The struggle between the Greek and the native Slav influences within the Byzantine Church goes back to the time of Cyril and Methodius , and it continued into the nineteenth century in both the Serbian and Bulgarian churches . |
| 17 | I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) . |
| 18 | Urged on by a renewed Ibrox roar , they stormed forward in search of an equaliser , and it came in the 83rd minute . |
| 19 | And , and obviously it was ridiculous , every second word I was having to look up and then I 'd get all that and it moves onto the next one . |
| 20 | And it comes to the first of August , and Graham gets his car , his new X J S , and I get my new Lada , and we 've been out at midnight doing all this , but we come to the branch in the morning , and he parks his X J S there , and I park my Lada next to it . |
| 21 | Your pulse rate will continue to decrease until it reverts to the first reading . |
| 22 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 23 | Yeah , if it expires like the last one , that 's okay , just chuck it on the fire . |
| 24 | ’ If it happened on the 2nd of June this year , I 'd die . ’ |
| 25 | In Scotland and Wales there is the same pressure for equal treatment but it comes in the first instance from MPs who will pounce on any discrepancies and ask why England ( or Scotland and Wales ) is receiving special treatment . |
| 26 | ’ But it appears from the fourth plea that that marriage had already been agreed on , and that the testator knew it . |
| 27 | With a little moan of fear she scrambled out of the car and raced to the house to hammer on the door , but it opened at the first blow from her fist . |
| 28 | You 're not gon na say Rose that you 're not satisfied and unless it improves in the next week or so , if you will have , . |
| 29 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 30 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |