Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came at the end of a pretty miserable week for the Seasiders after their failure to reach the first round of the Cup Winners ' Cup in Cyprus . |
| 2 | SENIOR Tories in Cheltenham were trying yesterday to persuade Mr John Taylor to remain as their prospective parliamentary candidate after his failure to become the first black Tory MP . |
| 3 | Lord Lae declared that ‘ oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband ’ ; and millionaire QCs , who think legal aid is something once organised by Bob Geldof , spoke movingly about their willingness to take the next indigent client who wandered into their chambers with a blank cheque . |
| 4 | This latter issue was also cited by the Japanese government as the reason for its decision to postpone the eighth round of normalization talks with North Korea , originally scheduled for July . |
| 5 | ‘ Winning only one Bledisloe Cup in my eight years and , of course , South Africa were factors ’ , Farr-Jones says of his decision to add the 53rd cap he won at Twickenham . |
| 6 | MacLane's– driver swerved out of his way to get the last crawling quintuplet . |
| 7 | Motorola Inc has put Intel Corp on the spot with its decision to price the first iterations of the PowerPC chip at $280 each for the 50MHz 601 and $374 each for the 66MHz 601 in quantities of 20,000 or more , since these are about half the prices Intel had pencilled in for its Pentium chips ( CI No 2,156 ) . |
| 8 | The younger Herschel had travelled to the Cape with his telescope to undertake the first survey of the southern skies with a first-class instrument , and his discoveries of nebulae were already causing a stir in the astronomical community . |
| 9 | GERMANY , another side to have ‘ employed ’ the technical know-how of a foreigner ( Emil Signes , the former coach and current manager of the US Eagles sevens side ) were equally unsuccessful in their bid to reach the last four . |
| 10 | It helped , albeit in an unpleasant way , in her campaign to become the next Mrs Jack Butler . |
| 11 | Although the Democrats increased their share of the vote , the party 's leader Janine Haines failed in her bid to become the first candidate from a minor party since 1966 to win a seat in the 148-seat House of Representatives . |
| 12 | Finally , when the stream dried up to a dribble , she popped the man 's wet dick in her mouth to savour the last few drops . |
| 13 | It was organised by several local groups , including Wensleydale railway association , which sees the present 22 mile branch as a vital link in its campaign to restore the last 17 miles of the Wensleydale line between Redmire and Garsdale . |
| 14 | Can I say finally Chairman , that I will be instigating a er a request er I shall be requesting I should say perhaps to the director of education that erm the three party spokesman on the management committee and all those officers who will be involved in implementing this decision will get together at the earliest and I 'm citing possibly next week so that we can be on our way to plan the next step forward to a concrete implementation of this particular proposal . |
| 15 | One or two sentences at your discretion to introduce the first prize winners who will go on to compete in the national finals in London on 16 March 1991 at the Natural History Museum . |