Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1 184 Richard returned to this area , founding a new town and castle at the bridge over the River Creuse at St Rémi de la Haye , about twelve miles on the other side of Châtellerault . |
| 2 | The superb quality of the ormolu by Pierre Gouthière was undoubtedly part of the vases ' attraction , also accounting for the healthy £72,000 ( $131,400 ; est. £25,000–35,000 ) paid for a pair of Louis XVI candlesticks attributed to this master ( lot 72 ) . |
| 3 | Although Howell was cited to the Court , none of the three judgments refers to that decision , and Templeman and Denning L.JJ. made remarks that were at variance with it . |
| 4 | This code is in the form of triplets , a different combination of three nucleotides corresponding to each amino acid . |
| 5 | The broken Mirror , with its tired old political bias , has lost a massive 158,970 circulation compared to this time last year . |
| 6 | 10.30–12.30 classes open to all Society members will be given by Ann Langford and Christine Markham . |
| 7 | The seventy thousand pounds awarded to each brother will help wiuth medical costs . |
| 8 | Only about 10 per cent of the Chile 's estimated 400,000 temporeros belong to any kind of union . |
| 9 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 10 | In the nineteen twenties Freud returned to this concept of defence as , as has just said , with the concept of defence mechanism . |
| 11 | Adhesive binding is homophilic : a cadherin molecule on one cell binds to another cadherin molecule of the same type on the next cell . |
| 12 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 13 | One factor leading to this complexity is the co-existence of two systems of measurement — the metric and Imperial systems . |
| 14 | Say four or five people come to that meeting |
| 15 | One interpretation given to this phrase in the 1980s was that a work of art should openly contest a given fact of political or social life in a more or less explicit way . |
| 16 | Recent research shows that this is the case in at least one species belonging to this category ( the European sparrow hawk : I. Newton , personal communication ) . |
| 17 | ‘ A weight limit of around 13 stone applies to most riding holidays . ’ |
| 18 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 19 | The anemone has a flower-like cluster of tentacles around a single central opening ; the sea squirt has no tentacles and two openings connected to each other by a U-shaped tube . |
| 20 | For example , take two labels attached to another child in a nursery : |
| 21 | I mean , I 've needed four years to get to this point so she could have all the time in the world as far as I was concerned . |
| 22 | ‘ I have to go , Lissa , I 've just remembered something I have to collect urgently — but I can see that you and Rourke have one or two things to say to each other , anyway . ’ |
| 23 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 24 | There are two qualifications made to this view . |
| 25 | ‘ You could hear the two men talking to each other , saying ‘ Give her another one … do n't give it to her too quickly … now help her along ’ , then awful smothering sounds . ’ |
| 26 | Like confessions of happy confidences , two chaises-longues turned to each other , broken canework unwinding down their legs . |
| 27 | Two factors contributed to this bias . |
| 28 | In practice , since philosophy often proceeds by paying attention to past philosophers and their ideas , the two categories overlapped to some extent with each other , and with a third category , political philosophy , which looks at the political philosophers in the light of the practice and experiences of feminist politics ( see Okin , 1980 ; Elshtain , 1981 ; O'Brien , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | We shall forward the work for the 1,000 secondees to come to this country as speedily as we can . |