Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This winter these perils have led to 12 of the main teams mounting more than 90 rescues , mainly since the start of the year , of which one-third were judged as serious incidents . |
| 2 | How do you rate your parents ' ( or substitute model ) marriage on a scale of to 10 in the following areas ( 10 being the highest ) : |
| 3 | The punishment for this crime was to be docked his best wave , so his tally would be reduced to three against the other surfers ' four . |
| 4 | If the synodic period of Venus were exactly 584 days , the number of revolutions required would be 65 , corresponding to 146 of the 260-day cycles . |
| 5 | As we show on page 21 , Labour is now second to the Tories in 186 seats ( compared to 145 for the Liberal Democrats ) . |
| 6 | If there were no loss of skeletal elements at all the expected line would cross horizontally at 100% and then dip sharply to zero for the isolated molars ( M ) and incisors ( 1 ) , which would all still be retained in the jaws . |
| 7 | Furthermore , these plateaux coincide with deep minima in the longitudinal voltage , in the direction of current flow , which drops essentially to zero at the critical values of Vg . |
| 8 | After the first two weeks of prednisolone , the daily dosage was steadily reduced to zero over the ensuing weeks . |
| 9 | As she straightened up , something caught her eye : a wisp of blue thread clinging to one of the tiny plants that somehow managed to exist in the thin soil on top of the cliff . |
| 10 | The children were divided into two groups for the test phase in which they received successive discrimination training , learning to press one button in response to one of the pre-trained cues and a second button in response to another . |
| 11 | An alternative and , in some ways , simpler procedure is to establish some new response to one of the pre-trained stimuli and then , in a separate test phase , to present the other pre-trained stimuli . |
| 12 | All Indian weavers , whether employed in large manufactories or working at their own family looms , are under contract to one of the major distributors , who tell them what sizes , colours and designs to weave . |
| 13 | There was still a general assumption that the self-confidence and savoir-faire they conferred were essential in any aspirant to one of the major embassies . |
| 14 | The brain regions responsible for storing the memory could be located to one of the major lobes into which the octopus brain was divided . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Noelle is a newcomer to the Executive Committee , having been elected to one of the reserved seats for women , outside of Belfast and Dublin . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I descended the stairs half-naked to one of the yelling bedrooms and announced that I would have to leave . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | According to one of the tabloid papers , she said : ‘ The people who have been fighting the police have no connection with our church . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She saw Gabriel pinning holly to one of the black beams in her house . |