Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third weakness is that the method adopted to conquer inflation for the second time — raising the interest rate — only works by inflicting pain on borrowers , both corporate and domestic . |
| 2 | Pauline Leyshon arrived to give evidence on the fifth day of the trial at Bristol Crown Court . |
| 3 | Forest began to lose momentum in the second half and found themselves forced to defend for longer periods . |
| 4 | For instance , the use of purveyance began to attract criticism in the last fifteen years of the reign . |
| 5 | And then irritation began to give way to the first tricklings of fear . |
| 6 | He returned to base camp on the 16th , by which time hope that Wanda would return had largely faded . |
| 7 | In the United States , for example , people began to pay tax on the first slice of their income at 14 per cent , then 16 per cent for the next band , and so on . |
| 8 | It was no coincidence that the majority of the French delegates were members of the little-known Le Societe Pereire , which sought to recognise Pereire as the first teacher of the deaf in that country — Pereire being a man who practised teaching by the oral method . |
| 9 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 10 | The Labour Party have committed themselves to establishing Regional Government , that is if Britain decided to commit suicide at the next election . |
| 11 | The Motor account continued to show improvement in the fourth quarter which produced a deficit $11.0m lower at $18.0m ( 1991 : $29.0m loss ) as claims frequency , but not average claims costs , continue to fall . |
| 12 | The besieged President refused to concede defeat on the last day of his campaign yesterday . |
| 13 | Similarly , in Equatorial Guinea , the EC is financing a timber extraction project intended to quadruple production over the next four years . |
| 14 | They did not want to confuse their audience with images of pacifists , masochists or the self-proclaimed ‘ fierce dykes ’ who screamed that they wanted to make love to the first lady . |