Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife Beryl discovered churchgoers had gathered to see the two plant a beech tree to celebrate the vicar 's anniversary which falls on Easter Sunday . |
| 2 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 3 | Both measures were intended to curb the 1991 budget deficit after initial projections had put it at Rbs250,000 million . |
| 4 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 5 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , and irrespective of the debate on the degree of influence of annual weather variations on long-term ozone trends , the fact that 101 areas in the country failed to meet the 0.12 ppm ozone standard in 1988 is extremely worrying . |
| 7 | The pilots on Oct. 4 withdrew their pay claim and agreed to accept the 6 per cent national guideline agreed by the government and the trade unions , but the airlines refused to respond while the matter was before the arbitration commission . |
| 8 | Thus , when in November 1947 a resolution was put to the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA ) Committee for Political and Security Questions , calling for a reaffirmation of the December 1946 resolution , it failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for adoption . |
| 9 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 10 | John Evans says : ‘ We 're very concerned about these abuses and we want to see the 1987 Consumer Protection Act stiffened . |
| 11 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 12 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 13 | They were expected to support the M-19 coalition . |
| 14 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |
| 15 | She promised to attend the 1992 ceremony . |
| 16 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 17 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 18 | Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added . |
| 19 | In this introductory chapter I therefore want to connect the two themes of the sociological neglect of housework , and the wider issue of the bias against women in sociology as a whole . |
| 20 | The many coats of paint helped to preserve the P-40 ready for the day when she would fly again . |
| 21 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 22 | Our range of sleeping beauties have all been especially designed to meet the two highest standards there are : you and your child 's . |
| 23 | ‘ If you want to catch the four o'clock train , we 'd better be leaving . ’ |
| 24 | The water from two rivers which sweep through the estate was harnessed to provide the five lakes strategically placed around the course . |
| 25 | At current production rates , production from the Wytch Farm field was expected to pass the 100 million barrel mark in early October . |
| 26 | If you want to graft the two sets ( front and back ) of stitches together then each set of shoulder stitches can be run off on to waste yarn and you are left with three separate groups of stitches all on waste yarn . |
| 27 | Since a star command must be the last ( or only ) command in a program line , you need to use the OSCLI command to pass the CLI command to the operating system . |
| 28 | The discussion process has been overseen by Howell James , director of corporate affairs , who as an adviser to Lord Young helped to write the 1987 Conservative manifesto . |
| 29 | When combined , these enhancements are expected to increase the II 's floating point to a integer ratio . |
| 30 | When they are combined , these enhancements are expected to increase the SuperSparc-II 's floating point to a integer ratio . |