Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] to the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to relate events to the Third World . |
| 2 | Furthermore , legislation expressly intended to give effect to the first stage of Economic and Monetary Union has already been enacted , following the decision of the European Council in Madrid in June 1989 that that stage should begin on 1 July 1990 . |
| 3 | Their function was to work , to procreate and to give place to the next generation ; while the sprawling capital endured . |
| 4 | To do justice to the nineteenth century , we intend to open eleven new rooms , hung with wallpaper from our own collections , and to feature our little-known panoramas . |
| 5 | Bourgeois literature was unequivocally condemned on three counts : first , for its failure to voice opposition to the First World War , a failure in other words to disclose the true reality of the war as an imperialist struggle ; secondly , for its refusal to offer an accurate depiction of the Soviet revolution , a failure explained as the cowardly refusal of the bourgeois writer to disclose the deepening crisis of capitalism after 1929 , a crisis highlighted by the success of the five year plan in the Soviet Union ; finally , for its refusal to face up to the growing threat of fascism . |
| 6 | You will need to pay attention to the first impression you make . |
| 7 | At the time of writing , plans to join two buildings with a walkway to improve access to the second building , which has no lift , have been scrapped . |
| 8 | The Bishop of Oxford has appealed to the Government not to cut aid to the Third World . |
| 9 | Indeed the highest incidence of minority opinions was dissent by the chairman which could be said to lend weight to the second view , though a more probable explanation is that the lay members took a view on the merits which the chairman regarded as untenable in law . |
| 10 | They did not want to confuse their audience with images of pacifists , masochists or the self-proclaimed ‘ fierce dykes ’ who screamed that they wanted to make love to the first lady . |
| 11 | Announcing that special committees had been set up to make recommendations to the next meeting in Oman in April , Mr Baghli added : ‘ We see that the American administration is serious in imposing the tax and the European countries are uniting their ranks to impose this tax to threaten our basic source of living . ’ |