Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 2 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 3 | Yeah you only need to write their details on the first page in which they appear . |
| 4 | While ‘ planning ’ in these various guises seemed to find its moment in the Second World War , it also drew upon a long evolution of social and political thought which stretched back to before the Great War . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 6 | On May 13 Don W. Wilson — who , as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration , was generally accepted as the custodian of the Constitution — declared his support for the validity of the measure and stated that he was preparing to certify its adoption as the 27th Amendment . |
| 7 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | One study of Scottish babies showed that 90 per cent of mothers started to train their babies during the first year with half of the middle class and a quarter of the working class starting before 6 months of age ( Drillien 1964 ) . |
| 9 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 10 | India announced that it was to increase its contribution to the third replenishment from $6,500,000 to $8,000,000 . |
| 11 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 12 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 13 | Everton always looked the more competent side and were unlucky not to increase their lead in the 50th minute . |
| 14 | On Villa-Flotilla you have a chance to meet your companions in the first week . |
| 15 | Did you really expect to find your mother on the first day ? |
| 16 | As it was , some 50,000 soldiers were to lose their lives during the next few months in fruitless attacks on Chunuk Bair . |
| 17 | Even ratting contests and prize-fights seemed to lose their appeal in the last quarter of the century . |
| 18 | But to describe the issue as one which depends on whether or not the bank must be taken to have appointed the husband as its agent to deal with the wife and to procure her consent serves , in my opinion , to mask the basis upon which in certain cases creditors have failed to enforce their security against the third parties and upon which in other cases they have succeeded . |
| 19 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 20 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 21 | Hundreds more Herefordians are expected to risk their morals at the first show in the city early next month . |
| 22 | Gooch and the England selectors meet in Manchester to choose their squad for the second Test at Lord 's , and Atherton 's place as Gooch 's opening partner is one of those up for discussion . |
| 23 | THE new government had to draft in a hasty replacement to lead its delegation to the first annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development following the election defeat of overseas development minister Lynda Chalker . |
| 24 | He arrived before them to coordinate their integration into the first U S Marine expeditionary force ; he says the first task for his men will be acclimatisation with desert temperatures still in the high nineties . |
| 25 | Readers may be familiar with textbooks that set out to define their subject in the first chapter . |
| 26 | She had come to visit her sister for the third year running and , as on the three previous occasions , hoped to stay for a month . |
| 27 | By law they have to ballot their members in the next couple of years on whether they can keep their political funds , through which they give money to the party . |
| 28 | It 's a crippling burden , a bizarre , economically apocalyptic punishment on these presumptuous paupers for wanting to kickstart their economies into the 20th century . |
| 29 | ‘ Those people — and thousands of them went through the proper procedure — will be contacted later this month and given the opportunity to purchase their tickets for the next home game . ’ |
| 30 | Social work has begun to evaluate its effectiveness in the last fifty years , and Sheldon ( 1986 ) has described two separate waves of reviews and researches . |