Example sentences of "[noun] to reach the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IRELAND have the expertise — they are coached by Munster senior coach Garrett Fitzgerald — and the talent to reach the last eight . |
| 2 | GERMANY , another side to have ‘ employed ’ the technical know-how of a foreigner ( Emil Signes , the former coach and current manager of the US Eagles sevens side ) were equally unsuccessful in their bid to reach the last four . |
| 3 | Mich eventually resorted to placing a hook on tension , then continuing to tension from the hook to reach the first real crack line for ten pitches . |
| 4 | Ian Shiels , the non playing team organiser explained that ‘ New players have recently joined which gives us a better opportunity to reach the second division . ’ |
| 5 | Lack of early-season form undermined their attempts to reach the last eight of the Benson & Hedges Cup , and in the Refuge League they were inconsistent . |
| 6 | WORLD champion Stephen Hendry was in a hurry in Blackpool yesterday as he took only 58 minutes to reach the fourth round of the £140,000 Regal Welsh Open . |
| 7 | They took an hour to reach the first town , and another hour to find the tourist office and fend off boys with motor bikes who rapped on the windows . |
| 8 | Stockport County ............ 0 Queen 's Park Rangers ........ 0 ( Rangers win 2-1 on agg ) ON tight , little Edgeley Park where some famous names have been rolled into the infant Mersey , Rangers did a smart professional job to reach the third round of the Littlewoods Cup . |
| 9 | It came at the end of a pretty miserable week for the Seasiders after their failure to reach the first round of the Cup Winners ' Cup in Cyprus . |
| 10 | So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to fear a third successive failure to reach the third round . |
| 11 | But skipper Gary McAllister is backing ‘ Lucky ’ Lukic to give them the foundation to reach the last eight , and its lucrative mini-leagues , with a display which will restore his reputation . |
| 12 | Soccer , Hereford won a dramatic penalty shoot-out last night to reach the second round of the Coca Cola cup . |
| 13 | The former title-holder , Jansher Khan , also from Pakistan , plays Bryan Beeson , who became the second Briton to reach the last eight by overcoming Jason Nicolle , 15-7 , 15-13 , 15-6 in a tussle of English giant-killers . |
| 14 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 15 | She has , she says , only enough petrol to reach the first garage . |
| 16 | Their opponents tomorrow will be Spain , the second seeds , who overwhelmed the Soviet Union in the two singles matches to reach the last four . |
| 17 | JO DURIE brushed aside worries about her injured knee to reach the second round of the Volkswagen Cup at Eastbourne with a 6–3 4–6 6–1 win over Elena Likhovtseva . |
| 18 | Before then the only way to reach the last village at this end of the island was by boat or along a narrow path which clung to the hillside above precipitous cliffs . |
| 19 | When an action potential reaches a synapse it releases the neurotransmitters which spread across the synapse to reach the next , or postsynaptic , nerve cell . |
| 20 | MINNOWS Mynydd Isa collected another prized scalp when they toppled hosts Shotton by eight wickets to reach the third round of the Flintshire Knockout Cup . |
| 21 | He leaned across the table to reach the last cup and suddenly froze . |