Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Boeing 707 belonging to the Colombian national airline Avianca crashed on Long Island , New York , on Jan. 25 , during a second attempt to land at the city 's John F. Kennedy airport , causing the death of 67 people and injuring some 80 of the remaining 91 people on board . |
| 2 | Weaver 's body was photographed , and taken away in the second ambulance to arrive on the scene . |
| 3 | The second point to note about the Ellis and Bowerman surveys is that neither was concerned with cases of really outstanding creativity , of the kind that have been the subject of individual biographical analyses . |
| 4 | Many fear they will have to take out a second mortgage to pay for the spin-off merchandise from the Macauley Culkin sequel : Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York . |
| 5 | ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’ |
| 6 | 1-0 at half time was n't so bad , especially with a second leg to come at the Manor . |
| 7 | Tacit consent was the tactic which Locke used in his Second Treatise to escape from the dilemma of reconciling his basic principle — " The Liberty of Man , in Society , is to be under no other Legislative Power , but that established , by consent , in the Commonwealth … " ( 22 , p. 301 ) — with the desirability of a stable and durable system of government which would not have to be submitted to the people for constant re-endorsement . |
| 8 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 9 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 10 | What , if any , additional accounts need to be opened in the second year to cope with the fact that the business is now a partnership and for what reason are they needed ? |
| 11 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 12 | We have the sixty-first senator to thank for the length of the second . |
| 13 | He is the 166th competitor to die in the history of the TT races . |
| 14 | ft. unit is the 175th branch to open in the country , bringing the total number of stores worldwide to 750 . |
| 15 | In 1202 the Venetians persuaded the armies of Christendom to divert their attention from the Fourth Crusade to assist in the subjugation of Zadar , whose citizens had risen against Venice . |
| 16 | Environment and Natural Resources Minister Mungai Njoroge resigned on Jan. 4 , the sixth minister to resign from the government within the space of two weeks [ see p. 38662 ] . |
| 17 | The fifth yacht to arrive in the space of eight hours , Rhone Poulenc , carried a crewman who 'd spoken to his family in Gloucester only once on the whole trip . |
| 18 | Jamie knew that wherever he was in the wild world , far from his home , he was not the first Scotsman to hammer at the gate . |
| 19 | Our Aisling , two months in foal to Efisio , romped home by six lengths under top weight in the Millerhill Handicap , while Call Me I 'm Blue became the fifth favourite to oblige in the Tranent Handicap . |
| 20 | In only 14 cases did the user ‘ volunteer ’ in the first instance to go to the Drugs Council . |
| 21 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 22 | The first part to arrive in the West End Farm workshop was a 20-year-old back-end from an International 806 tractor . |
| 23 | The first department to input to the system was Archaeology and Documentation calculate that by the year 2003 they will have finally input all NMS records — approximately 600,000 entries . |
| 24 | Yet Mrs Molina becomes the first Latino to sit on the county 's governing board since 1872 — and the first woman ever . |
| 25 | Reginald Bassett 's 1931 : Political Crisis , published in 1958 , was the first attempt to look at the events of 1931 free from contemporary preconceptions . |
| 26 | One reason for organising the 5 October 1968 march in Derry was that NICRA had always considered the city to be a natural focus for its attempts to raise the question of civil rights , but the demonstration was not the first attempt to organise around the issue in Derry . |
| 27 | The first attempt to break through the deadlock created by the blacklisting of Lamarckism was made not by Darwin , but by the Edinburgh publisher and amateur naturalist , Robert Chambers ( 1802–71 ) . |
| 28 | However , when you ask the first child to look at the card written on the piece of paper , it is the correct one . |
| 29 | ( Phoebe ) Bradley became the first lady to serve on the Club Committee , an event doubly unique , for although not a bondholder she was elected by their Committee to represent them for a four-year term . |
| 30 | The first gallery to emerge after the war was Galerie Der Spiegel , founded in 1945 by Hein and Eva Stünke , who later became an intermittent director of Documenta , and in 1967 established the Cologne Art Fair . |