Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The brain regions responsible for storing the memory could be located to one of the major lobes into which the octopus brain was divided . |
| 32 | In the developing world , the preservation of schedule and service independence through some degree of national ownership , even if linked by commercial alliance to one of the major carriers — rather than abdication of this responsibility to others — will safeguard against having those air lines become the casualty of a bottom line result in a distant board room in London , Atlanta or Paris . |
| 33 | Could I , could I turn to one of the major contributors of erm of pension fund surpluses er and that is the plight of the deferred pensioner . |
| 34 | Again , just as it does in the skin , X-irradiation kills off the stem cells and this soon has dire effects on the surface of the gut , giving rise to one of the major causes of radiation sickness . |
| 35 | A five-year deal to supply intermediate products to one of the major chemicals companies is about to be signed , according to Brian Hoare , finance director of its parent group Suter . |
| 36 | By midnight it 's really rocking and on into the early hours of the morning we adjourn to one of the best discos in Faliraki , Set Disco , where 18–30 Social members can get special discounts . |
| 37 | That Airtours arrived at this position is due to one of the best years any company could wish for . |
| 38 | Duclos-Lasalle , 37 , who is likely to retire at the end of the season , converted two previous second places , a fourth and sixth , into victory when he arrived alone on the velodrome at Roubaix to one of the warmest welcomes in the long history of the race . |
| 39 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 40 | He was very nearly as tall as her , but she put an arm under his shoulders and supported him to the untidy room which served as the stable office , calling to one of the stable girls to take over the class . |
| 41 | Noelle is a newcomer to the Executive Committee , having been elected to one of the reserved seats for women , outside of Belfast and Dublin . |
| 42 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 43 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 44 | A speedy journey in the boats took us to one of the 365 islands in Lough Erne . |
| 45 | After travelling halfway around the globe to one of the remotest spots on Earth , encasing oneself in goosedown against the cold , mounting a snowmobile and riding through the vastness , the glimpse of a dark object starts the heart pounding . |
| 46 | She was highly delighted , especially when she learned that she had been the only woman called for interview ; she had been certain that the job would go to one of the male applicants . |
| 47 | I descended the stairs half-naked to one of the yelling bedrooms and announced that I would have to leave . |
| 48 | Sunday morning sees us on the way to one of the prettiest corners of the state of Vermont to visit top breeder 's herd VT Pond View . |
| 49 | She watched him turn to one of the inner doors , his head somehow lowered , and when he reached it he looked back with an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 50 | That crisis coincided with the beginning of an economic crisis , which saw south-east Texas in particular transformed within two years from one of the boom areas to one of the depressed areas of the USA . |
| 51 | According to one of the tabloid papers , she said : ‘ The people who have been fighting the police have no connection with our church . |
| 52 | I had finally resolved to stage a roof coup , to climb on to one of the forbidden roofs iii the probably vain hope that the prospect of being left behind might change Melinda 's views , when suddenly a metal door opened and arms reached down to pull us up . |
| 53 | A BAG of muddied human bones and hair could hold the key to one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th Century , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 54 | The pattern of inheritance of this simple characteristic led the Moravian monk , Gregor Mendel , to one of the greatest insights in biology — character traits were not blended during passage from one generation to another but inherited as separate factors , later called genes . |
| 55 | She saw Gabriel pinning holly to one of the black beams in her house . |
| 56 | By day you can waterski , windsurf , parasail or take a trip in a fishing boat to one of the outlying islands ; by night , enjoy a leisurely drink in an open-air bar or dance the night away in some pulsating disco . |
| 57 | Other issues on which morals can be drawn are whether dreams are forewarnings of events to come , and the image of woman as man 's confusion : the latter point , though , the Nun 's Priest himself refuses to present seriously : The burlesque treatment of matters of moral seriousness in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale reaches its climax in the middle of the tale , with a reference to one of the crucial dilemmas or mysteries for Christian philosophers : that of reconciling human free will with the necessary truth of God 's Providence . |
| 58 | The NDI observer group , claiming that the elections were " generally open , orderly and well-administered " , had nevertheless pointed out that " the caretaker government 's use of the perquisites of incumbency " had seemed " to have given an advantage to one of the contesting parties " — presumed to be a reference to the IDA . |
| 59 | It was after the 1990 England v Ireland game at Twickenham that Paul Ackford casually mentioned to one of the Irish players that his team knew it had only to withstand Ireland 's 20 minutes of blood and guts to win easily . |
| 60 | If only we could draw in nine dimensions we could make each dimension correspond to one of the nine genes . |