Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 2 | The Council agreed to postpone the next full visit from the summer of 1979 until later in the year , and to release a press statement that had been agreed by the visiting party with the Polytechnic and the Teesside Education Authority . |
| 3 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 4 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 5 | But he withstood some solid blows and finally saw off Biggs with a right to the temple as the bell sounded to end the seventh round . |
| 6 | A CONSIDERABLE future opened up for Gary Mason here last night when he knocked out Tyrell Biggs as the bell rang to end the seventh round . |
| 7 | The government intended to achieve the first aim primarily through council housing , relegating privately-built housing to a secondary position . |
| 8 | In other cases the companies deal on the market themselves , so the transaction has to await the next stock exchange settlement day . |
| 9 | The audience held their breath in one collective sigh as the orchestra began to play the first few bars of ‘ Strolling with Nancy ’ . |
| 10 | And , at the start of the 1940s , a baseball administrator named Branch Rickey began his search for the man destined to become the first black player in a white team . |
| 11 | It 's not a college , or even a church , but a Victorian town house , really rather unremarkable but for the fact that the man tipped to become the next American President used to live there . |
| 12 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 13 | And I was going like this doing a little dance on the ladder trying to find the next rung and the ladder was doing a little dance on the wall . |
| 14 | To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island . |
| 15 | The billposter attempting to paste the second of his ‘ Cooper and Co 's Teas ’ posters on the hoarding watched the paper slowly curl back from the wall and drop on to the ground . |
| 16 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the company expects to ship the first MicroSparc clones next month starting at $3,790 for the Compstation LC and $4,690 for the LX , both undercutting Sun . |
| 18 | The company expects to unveil the first one in the region in York at the Clifton Moor Retail Park within months . |
| 19 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 20 | For larger loads the time taken to reach the first step position is longer and therefore the time between successive step commands is automatically adjusted to allow for the slower rate of acceleration . |