Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th .
2 If you do not reply , the PP does not repeat but goes on to the next question .
3 Once the first grading has been successfully completed , the student goes on to the next stage of training , which concerns itself with basic semi-free sparring .
4 Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit .
5 Trident sub goes down for the first time
6 The senior manager may be unable to cope with his or her own work either and so much of the overflow simply drifts down to the next level .
7 If Margaret Thatcher stands down before the next election , as most voters appear to believe she should , Michael Heseltine is the popular choice to succeed her as Conservative leader , according to the opinion polls .
8 But it is not a model that holds up for the twentieth century , when liberalization of the divorce law was not a matter of last resort but was rather always proposed as a means of strengthening the institution of marriage ( by permitting those ‘ living in sin ’ to remarry ) ; when opinion shifted with dramatic speed , for example between the conservative recommendations of the 1956 Royal Commission on Divorce and the endorsement of profound liberalization given a mere ten years later by both the Law Commission and the Church of England ; and when the change in views of key institutions such as the Church of England were as important as those of lawyers .
9 But as the party rages on in the next office , a private little film show of Brenda 's holiday slides starts to throw lights on some dark secrets .
10 However , with Colin Dick still on his way home from Australia , Bell fills in as the last man in defence with Alan Simpson and Michael Rainey in the centre .
11 The oral phase occurs in about the first year of a child 's life .
12 But in November 1950 the Chinese sent some 250 000 " volunteers " across the Yalu , and the war swung back in favour of the North Koreans and their allies as they drove the UN forces back to the 38th parallel .
13 He spins round at the third barrel .
14 Stan Bate , his worship the Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent , drives off from the first tee to open officially the city 's new municipal golf course at Weston Coyney .
15 Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth .
16 This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance .
17 This leads on to the third scenario , that decisions would be taken in economic and other fields at Community level , and that they would be submitted to the scrutiny of the European Parliament .
18 After the first player has had his turn , he hands on to the second player .
19 Intrigued by the means of domestic entrance — ‘ often by a flight of steps , which reaches up to the second story , the floor which is level with the ground being entered only by stairs descending within the house , — lie compares their dwellings with the architecture of England , and inevitably , when he draws such comparisons , a little bee flies into his bonnet .
20 And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far .
21 So we see that if you have a school that goes up to the ninth grade , the Ministry covers the costs up to the sixth grade but the other years are paid for by parents .
22 So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right .
23 Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph .
24 It ties in with the fifth principle that ‘ personal data shall be accurate and , where necessary , kept up-to-date ’ — a formidable requirement , if taken literally , in view of the frequency with which personal details ( address , etc. ) can change , and also bearing in mind the possible diversity of sources of information ; and who but the data subject can be the true judge of accuracy — unless of course he may have an interest in falsifying the record ?
25 The golf course is where Nigel Mansell cools down for the next race … and that next race is Silverstone and the British Grand Prix … forget Monaco and Monza … for our Nigel British is still the best …
26 In most cases , the stem simply withers back to the first node , and remains as an unsightly brown spur .
27 Van Gelder said : ‘ Makes it a bit awkward , sir , does n't it , if war breaks out in the next half-hour ? ’
28 The private sector of rented accommodation has become a relatively minor part of the housing market and its long-term decline certainly stretches back to the First World War .
29 Santa Cruz Operation Inc has launched a developers ' program for independent software vendors who will use its Novell NetWare connectivity product , SCO IPX/SPX : an early release , supporting Streams , is out now — a commercial release goes out in the third quarter .
30 The papal banner , the vexillum sancti Petri , goes back to the eleventh century , perhaps to Alexander II ( 1061 – 1073 ) .
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