Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hereford united travelled north to Rochdale , only to slip to 17th in the 4th division . |
| 2 | The plan is for the theatre to open in 1993 with the first season of Shakespeare plays . |
| 3 | Yet employment in the textile industry proceeded to grow during most of the 19th century . |
| 4 | This number is expected to grow to 4000 over the next five years . |
| 5 | To look at this Daguerreotype is to look at one of the first photographic pictures of a city . |
| 6 | But then more wickets fell , and the eighth was down for 103 ; only for Logie and Bishop to put on 74 for the ninth wicket , and when Logie was last man out just two short of a well-deserved hundred , the score was 199 . |
| 7 | Logie , on 10 , was dropped at slip and went on to put on 130 for the sixth wicket with Dujon , a crucial stand in view of the end result . |
| 8 | With this in mind , Botham chose to field first , only for Greenidge and Haynes to put on 168 for the first wicket . |
| 9 | The tail showed more application than the top of the order , and when Lamb was run out for 113 Jarvis and Dilley batted well to put on 53 for the last wicket . |
| 10 | The fact that O'Keeffe was so well-known in her time makes it even more astonishing that we have had to wait until 1993 for the first major European show of her work . |
| 11 | The 63,500 places now available should not be allowed to reduce to 54,000 over the next five years , as would be the case if the 15 per cent . |
| 12 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 13 | They were obliged to withdraw from one of the last ( but not quite the last ) imperial adventures , and Eden resigned . |
| 14 | The real failures are those who give up and do n't attempt to succeed at all after the first setback . |
| 15 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 17 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter : it was to produce a quite bewildering variety of ‘ reconstructions ’ of Jesus ' personality and history , having for the most part only one thing in common — the conviction that whatever the truth about him might be , it was not the traditional Christian picture of him . |
| 18 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter . |