Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 2 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 3 | After months of national debate it was reported on Aug. 10 that Miyazawa had approved a proposed state visit to China by Emperor Akihito , in October , designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic Sino-Japanese relations . |
| 4 | Factory Records created and organised The Festival Of The Tenth Summer , a series of 10 events designed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of punk . |
| 5 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 6 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |
| 7 | Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan . |
| 8 | Hospital doctors , for example , are still expected to have the last word about their patients ' discharge dates , or about their transfer to other institutions , or to decide whether they should be offered facilities such as regular readmission to relieve carers . |
| 9 | An audition will be held on 7th April 10.30 — 4.30 at Aylwin School , Southward Park Road , London SE16 , to select a display team to represent the Society at the Festival of Movement and Dance being given to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation . |
| 10 | The show is intended to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the British Antique Dealers ' Association . |
| 11 | He jumped out of bed , contemplated his new seaside pyjamas with renewed pleasure , and prepared to enjoy the second week of his precious holiday . |
| 12 | It was all hands on deck as the crew of the Soren Larsen , prepared to lift the first part of the ship 's 100 ft foremast back into place . |
| 13 | We were sentenced to hang the next morning at the gallows of Montfaucon . |
| 14 | Prost could be said to represent the next generation of drivers and Niki the past . |
| 15 | Three MXY6 canard gliders were built to test the tail-first concept of the Shinden . |
| 16 | That type may then be broken up or ‘ distributed ’ , if the publisher has decided to limit the first edition to a stated number , or if there is no demand for additional copies . |
| 17 | The feature close would have the value + for , , , , and we could also use this for and if we adopt the convention that most of the features will be used to classify the first part of the diphthongs . |
| 18 | It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work . |
| 19 | The corpse road avoided the villages along the route for fear that the spirit of the dead should be enticed to return , a fear that in fact stemmed from Norse mythology , in which the corpse way was thought to mirror the last journey of the soul from the earth into the underworld . |
| 20 | ICTU has agreed to include the first point in their Agenda at their Biennial Conference . |
| 21 | The ticketholder of the first ticket drawn has the first choice of artwork . |
| 22 | By this time Mozart had been commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival in Milan the following year . |
| 23 | A small firm in Horsham called Stonefield Omicron Electronics has agreed to sell the fourth version of the computer , the CLIP.4 . |
| 24 | Arrangements are well advanced to celebrate the 50th anniversary on a Tyrone farm late next month . |
| 25 | Freud had not dared to publish the third chapter of the book in Vienna . |
| 26 | It was agreed to hold the sixth round of talks in January 1992 . |
| 27 | John Williams , leader of Darlington council , helped put the last bollard in place . |
| 28 | Such a recognised company is sorely needed to develop the next generation of theatre-goers . |
| 29 | Because of the need to keep premiums in line with claims we have reluctantly had to make the first increase in our basic BUILDINGS rate for many years . |
| 30 | Because nature abhors a vacuum , we have had to produce the second document for today 's debate — ’ Labour 's Public Expenditure Plans ’ . |