Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasgow seemed better equipped to handle the additional 20 minutes and snatched victory thanks to an own goal by Donald McIntyre ( Forfar ) and Stephen Ross 's late third . |
| 2 | P only managed to pay the first three instalments . |
| 3 | However , the SPD ( which was to decide in mid-November on whether to support amendment of the Basic Law as proposed in August 1992 — see p. 39066 ) boycotted the vote and the motion thus failed to win the required two-thirds majority of members . |
| 4 | During a series of pre-conference meetings between members of the government-in-exile and its critics , the government reportedly agreed to restore the original 1962 constitution in return for an undertaking by the opposition to affirm its loyalty to the ruling dynasty . |
| 5 | Er referring to the graph in er Mr 's paper , which showed that er the ninete well purported to show the nineteen eighty nine based headship rate figures were more in line with past experience . |
| 6 | Occhetto , leader of the PCI since 1988 , narrowly failed to secure the necessary 274 votes for election as secretary of the PDS in the first round of voting by the new party 's national council on Feb. 4 , mainly due to the absence of 132 members . |
| 7 | This agreement unexpectedly failed to obtain the required two-thirds majority in the Volkskammer on Aug. 9 because of the absence of some members of the coalition parties ( the vote was 258-63 ) . |
| 8 | However , when the USSR Supreme Soviet convened for its third session on Feb. 14 , the Presidium unexpectedly failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority for a proposal to call the Congress of People 's Deputies into emergency session by the end of February to make the necessary constitutional changes . |