Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it .
2 Late roses tumbled over stone walls , Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums provided bright patches of colour , and the trees that surrounded the village were beginning to show the first hint of the glowing autumn colours still to come .
3 The child is required to memorise the next lesson in the centrally-prepared text-book , sufficiently to pass the next weekly , monthly or yearly test .
4 In a package to be put before the clubs , the League 's governing body are proposing to increase the First Division from 14 to 16 teams .
5 A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable .
6 With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages .
7 Rather they overlap and as one sound is produced the vocal apparatus is preparing to speak the next one .
8 Although the medal was minted to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the war , it received virtually no publicity .
9 Although he undoubtedly did not see it as such , what Jesus Christ was really doing was fighting to uphold the Second Choice as specified in this book .
10 Another tree was planted to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Durham County WI .
11 There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages .
12 BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years .
13 One Brownie is chosen to ask the first question .
14 In 1989 the government was preparing to implement The Next Steps under which many departments carrying out executive functions would be converted into independent agencies .
15 The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected .
16 The show is intended to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the British Antique Dealers ' Association .
17 This Congress was convened to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the death of the Abbe de l'Epee a foremost pioneer in the history of deaf education , and was intended " to prove the progress which had been accomplished during the last century in the moral , material and social condition of the adult deaf and dumb ; therefore this Congress will not have anything to do with , or to remark on the methods of teaching which is not in its province " .
18 Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month .
19 This technique of free association , in which the patient is encouraged to say the first thing that comes to mind , reveals connotations of the dream image which might otherwise not have been obvious .
20 Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 .
21 In the final stages of the journey from river mud to glittering metal , gold is treated to remove the last stages of Garrimpo mercury , then it becomes pure , but not innocent .
22 A fun weekend is planned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of Ferryhill Leisure Centre .
23 The position detector pulse sent to the control unit is used to generate the next step command .
24 In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair .
25 The corpse road avoided the villages along the route for fear that the spirit of the dead should be enticed to return , a fear that in fact stemmed from Norse mythology , in which the corpse way was thought to mirror the last journey of the soul from the earth into the underworld .
26 This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four !
27 However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP .
28 The watch was kept to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the project which still has quite a lot of work to undertake but is sufficiently complete now to welcome visitors .
29 Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan .
30 Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum .
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