Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet employment in the textile industry proceeded to grow during most of the 19th century . |
| 2 | The real failures are those who give up and do n't attempt to succeed at all after the first setback . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter . |