Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although the medal was minted to mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the war , it received virtually no publicity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Another tree was planted to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Durham County WI . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan . |
| 15 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |