Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment .
2 I think Eardley was — with the Cornishman Peter Lanyon , who also died cruelly young — the most important British landscape painter to appear since the Second World War .
3 Is he guaranteeing to tell us where everyone of the cooks is going to come at the next Policy Meeting .
4 The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre .
5 William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery .
6 The Swiss government was prepared to pay SFr477 million to participate in the fourth Framework programme and had encouraged researchers and industry to submit proposals .
7 But I think Freud would have also gone on to say that he had very good reason for resenting Wilson , because he blamed Wilson personally for the unjust peace , after er Versailles , but er , was indirectly , many people would argue , going to lead to the Second World War , and er , so Freud 's defence I think would be , this man really was responsible .
8 I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’
9 Even though the Irish need a point in Valetta to clinch their first appearance in the finals , Charlton has agreed for Galvin to stay behind to play for the Second Division side in their Littlewoods Cup third-round second replay at Bolton .
10 No hint that she was about to walk into the last surprise party that she could ever expect to see .
11 This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive .
12 Michael Hughes — bright new star Nigel Worthington believes the developing Northern Ireland side is good enough to challenge in the next World Cup
13 Queen of the South chairman , Willie Harkness , 74 , looks set to resign from the Second Division side and be replaced by Bill Jardine , a club director for 17 years .
14 I want to play in the first competition match and then make sure of my place in the NSW team .
15 Only the winner and the runner-up in Asia will get the chance to play in the next World Cup preliminaries .
16 Would millions of people tramp across the hills to look at a twentieth century Broadway Tower ?
17 If the answer to the pursuer 's case is that the fault for the accident rests wholly or partly with someone else , consideration should be given now to service of a Third Party Notice by which that other party blamed can be brought into the action .
18 ‘ Something to do with the Second World War , Superintendent , which happens to be an area I 've written about myself . ’
19 None of this has anything to do with the Third Reading debate .
20 The fetch phase involves extracting the contents of the store location referred to by the program counter , and decoding it into an operation code portion , specifying an operation to be carried out , and an operand portion , specifying a store address ( whose numeric value we will indicate as The program counter is then incremented by one , to point to the next store location in sequence , since this normally holds the next instruction to be executed .
21 Two days to go before the first home game of the season .
22 Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more .
23 ( The Abbey 's building and contents insurance must be taken out to qualify for the first time buyer 's discount ) .
24 New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 .
25 Released by a group of independent scientists to coincide with the Second World Climate Conference , the report said that to minimise the risk of environmental damage , the rate of increase of average global temperature must be held below 0.2C per decade .
26 Such a system would benefit Sunderland not only financially there would be full-houses for each match but also the big crowds would surely help the Rokermen to get the safety points they are looking for to climb above the Second Division danger zone .
27 Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation .
28 After a year at Oxford University , Edward went to fight in the First World War .
29 KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues .
30 Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell .
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