Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 2 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 3 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |
| 4 | Hoyte himself had come to office in the last elections in December 1985 [ see p. 34162 ] , while his People 's National Congress ( PNC ) had been in power since independence in 1966 . |
| 5 | Our Lady ascended to heaven on the fifteenth of August and looked after La République . |
| 6 | Liverpool was a relative late-comer to the great docks of Britain , having risen to prominence in the eighteenth century through the cotton trade , importing raw cotton and ( like Bristol [ q.v. ] ) having a lively traffic in slaves , as well as exporting cotton goods . |
| 7 | Most are thought to date from the 13th century when packhorses were used to transport goods . |
| 8 | A canvas may be perfectly genuine if shown to date to the seventeenth century , but be a fake if it is nineteenth century . |
| 9 | It was probably in consequence of this great accession of landed wealth that Holland was summoned to Parliament for the first time in July 1314 . |
| 10 | Although a number of companies were privatised ( some were fully transferred to the private sector , whereas in other cases only a partial stake was sold ) , the scale of the programme and the sums of money raised were relatively small when compared to privatisation during the second and third terms . |
| 11 | The county 's young men are taking the charts by storm as a string of young dance bands from the area have rocketed to stardom over the last 18 months . |
| 12 | Maguire , who has rocketed to stardom in the last 18 months , was punished for incorrect use of the whip on Playing Truant , short head winner of the Hopeful Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 13 | THE town of Albert was reduced to rubble in the First World War and rebuilt in the 1920s . |
| 14 | Not to be outdone … the man who created thunderbirds is performing his own one man show … explaining with the help of Lady Penelope 's nine foot long Pink Rolls Royce … and the original puppets who were brought to life for the first time over twenty five years ago . |
| 15 | Forty cases of illegal logging have been brought to court in the last three years , but the loophole in the regulations makes it difficult to prove charges , so a technique is being developed to date the year of felling , using tree rings . |
| 16 | The scepticism towards which , in Berkeley 's view , much seventeenth-century philosophy implicitly tended , is not unrelated to the traditional Greek scepticism which was brought to light in the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | Juvenile lawlessness , he thought , represented ‘ a serious challenge , the difficulty of which is intensified by the extension of freedom which , for better or worse , has been given to youth in the last generation ’ . |
| 18 | The most important feature is the reservoir of larvae in the tissues of the cow , with subsequent milk-borne transmission ensuring that calves are exposed to infection from the first day of life . |
| 19 | The Croats first settled in their present homeland in the seventh century and were converted to Christianity in the first half of the ninth century , shortly after they accepted the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor , Charlemagne , in 803 . |
| 20 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 21 | The well is believed to date from the sixteenth century and still produces the pure water which the inhabitants had drunk in the days of the plague . |
| 22 | ( In fact , as will be seen later , a number of them were admitted to hospital during the last twelve months of their lives and some died in hospital . ) |
| 23 | The remarkable ascent of Swedish power from a tiny base was doomed to retraction in the eighteenth century , and Russia was the natural beneficiary . |
| 24 | The government on March 26 rejected as " totally one-sided " a report released on March 24 by the human rights organization Amnesty International , alleging that " many hundreds , if not thousands , of people [ in India ] have been tortured to death during the last decade " . |
| 25 | I remember too being taken to school for the first time . |
| 26 | Could you tell me what is the policy of your party on this matter and if you were to be elected to power at the next election what would your party do ? |
| 27 | My father was sent to hell-fire on the sixth of Rabi ! ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps the most celebrated ‘ deserter by doubt ’ lost to Christianity in the twentieth century has been Bertrand Russell . |
| 29 | You managed to stay in work but , given the vast resources and prestige attached to music-making in the Third Reich , your career did n't exactly flourish . |
| 30 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp returned to profitability in the first quarter of 1993 ended March 29 , reporting net income of $2.4m against a loss of $23.7m in the fourth quarter , on revenues of $69.5m , up 3% . |