Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [num ord] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reliquary consisted of a gold inscription plaque which referred to the fourteenth year of a particular Gadhara king , enabling the experts to date it precisely . |
| 2 | Thus Thomas Erastus ( 1523–83 ) appealed to the first chapter of Genesis to demonstrate that God had created plants before planets . |
| 3 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 4 | I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner . |
| 5 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 6 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 7 | She turned to the next sheet of cuttings , and began to read an article from the Sun . |
| 8 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 9 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 10 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 11 | These events ultimately led to the second overthrow of Obote by Yoreveni Museveni in 1985 . |
| 12 | This led to the second phase of the emergence of headhunting , in which management consultants , and with them accountancy firms , developed their own in-house headhunting functions . |
| 13 | In his Objections , appended to the first edition of Descartes 's Meditations ( 1641 ) , Hobbes rejects this . |
| 14 | She clung to the last vestiges of reality . |
| 15 | Soon afterwards , the man went to the seventh floor of a nearby building , smashed a window with a chair and jumped to his death . ’ |
| 16 | His last work , Chinese Connoisseurship , the Ko Ku Yao Lun , published posthumously and co-operatively in 1971 , saw to the first translation of the fourteenth-century album of connoisseurship Gegu yaolun . |
| 17 | Haynes fell to the first ball of West Indies ' reply , but the local pair of Lara and Simmons added 78 before the former fell to Kuiper . |
| 18 | An invoice raised in April 1991 related to the first stage of contract payment on a verbal order given by the customer in March 1991 , ie the first payment was due from the customer on approval of the order . |