Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] was [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second task was to follow through the police response to this demand , noting what was committed to paper , which officers dealt with incidents , the goals they were seeking to achieve , and what actually happened . |
| 2 | First reaction was to reach for the hotline to Swissair but no , the airport was definitely shut and we were indefinitely on hold . |
| 3 | Tug 's first reaction was to look towards the Woman . |
| 4 | Juliet 's first instinct was to hide under the blankets . |
| 5 | My first thought was to rush to the nearest d-i-y superstore to buy new ones . |
| 6 | The first task was to excise from the cadaver all the ‘ relevant tissue ’ . |
| 7 | The first task was to deal with the strikers , and Aung San achieved this at considerable cost . |
| 8 | He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust . |
| 9 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |
| 10 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |