Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walk along the landscaped towpath to see the seven locks , two aqueducts , four bridges and canal basins at Aberdulais and Resolven . |
| 2 | To a historian of the health services this decision to rationalize the two hospitals on to one site could be seen as rather disappointing . |
| 3 | It took about twenty minutes to ascend the 212 steps , but it was worth the effort . |
| 4 | It breaks your heart to see the thousands here who cling to that idea of Sarajevo , and fight for it even at mortal risk . |
| 5 | It has been brought forward to 5 April to allow institutional shareholders to enjoy the 25 per cent grossing-up for the last time . |
| 6 | It was a matter of concern , she said , that no money was included in the council 's 1993/94 budget to continue the six units , at Bangor , Deganwy , Caernarfon , Llangefni , Pwllheli and Blaenau Ffestiniog , beyond August . |
| 7 | Into these can be allocated enough satellites to transmit the 70 channels of TV that American firms say they want to broadcast . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the surprise winners of East Germany 's election , the Conservative Alliance have suffered a set-back in their plans to reunify the 2 Germanies . |
| 9 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 10 | Does the Secretary of State share many people 's concern about the fate of some 100,000 Soviet or ex-Soviet nuclear scientists who seem to be voting with their feet , particularly those who appear to have the skills to dismantle the 27,000 or so warheads , and the possibility that those skills may be lost ? |
| 11 | The Dili watchers came back to the Company headquarters to find the 2/2 was now linked to Brigadier Veale 's 200 survivors of Sparrow Force with a base at Mape , in the hills ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 12 | The Everyman is making this exclusive offer to the Echo to promote the two for the price of one Bard Card ticket , which operates for its own Shakespearian production , Much Ado About Nothing , until Friday . |
| 13 | Software drivers to optimise the SCSI-II interface support up to 20Mbyte-per-second data transfer rates . |
| 14 | This tactic , described by the Dutch government as " positive opting out " by the Eleven , effectively left the decision on the social policy chapter as an intergovernmental accord to implement the 1989 Social Charter using EC institutions and machinery ( as with the Schengen agreement on border controls — see pp. 38505 ; 38297 ) . |
| 15 | He 'd had another sleepless night and ahead lay customs , who could n't be expected to be exactly pro-British , and because of post and telephone strikes in Argentina , he had n't been able to confirm the flight with Alejandro , so they 'd have to go through the hassle of hiring a car to drive the 330 kilometres out to his estancia . |
| 16 | " Certainly it would be a tragedy to see the two most powerful nations on earth destroying each other in such a way , " he agreed , " and let us pray that such a day never comes . " |
| 17 | Judge Louis B. Stefan said he had based his decision on the Barnes trustees ' appeal for desperately needed funds to restore the 1924 foundation building and improve climate control . |
| 18 | A 300-yard tunnel is being drilled through the mountainside to connect the two halves of the severed road again . |
| 19 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 20 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 21 | The USA had threatened to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory import tariff on some $165,000,000-worth of Japanese personal computers every year , unless Japan took action to implement the 1986 agreement ; it had , however , eventually agreed to give Japan another 18 months , until the end of 1992 , in which to build up US imports to the agreed 20 per cent market share . |
| 22 | Ministers will also have another look at planned quota increases for Italy and Greece and demands to restore the 4.5 per cent of the milk quota which was suspended in 1987 . |
| 23 | That effort frustrated the Russian attempt to isolate the three Allies from Berlin and normal road and rail links were re-established in May 1949 . |
| 24 | IN HIS strongest warning yet that Moscow would brook no attempt to reunify the two Germanys , President Gorbachev has pledged that the Soviet Union would ensure ‘ no harm ’ came to East Germany . |
| 25 | Patrick carefully opened his eyes to find the three faces staring at him ; the look of satisfaction on Eddie 's face , contrasted sharply with Collins ' look of admiration , and Jane 's shocked expression . |
| 26 | The US Senate on Sept. 13 failed by one vote to secure the two-thirds majority needed to override Bush 's veto . |
| 27 | All parties are aware of the need to train native architects , archaeologists , technicians , and craftsmen to replace the hundreds murdered by the Khmer Rouge . |
| 28 | To restore law and order in a way that makes sense to , and works to the benefit of , ordinary people — we have an obligation to ensure that Government actions make sense — we need action to tackle the four issues that I have mentioned . |
| 29 | Books to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Piero |
| 30 | Upon noticing this curious coincidence , the gentlemen then gained an ambition to visit the three villages in question — in honour , as it were , of the music hall artistes . |