Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 2 | Now it may well be that er that may well be the the position in the south west in in respect of of of that particular criteria , but we would need to see , er how a location in that area , met the other eleven criteria . |
| 3 | She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks . |
| 4 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
| 5 | This construct therefore lacked the first three hypersensitive sites ( HS1 , HS2 and HS3 ) but contained all the downstream HS sites . |
| 6 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
| 7 | and , who work in Risley 's Effluent Plant Projects Office , were quick off the mark in the second race and were back in the boat house long before the second boat , crewed by and , had completed the required four laps . |
| 8 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
| 9 | He had completed the second nine in 29 for a round of 68 and a total of 273 , finishing with six successive birdies . |
| 10 | Erm , it 's important to remember that this is , in financial terms , a four year transition period , and you have n't yet completed the first twelve months . |
| 11 | We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day . |
| 12 | Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right . |
| 13 | HAVING completed the first two legs of their Caribbean tour , the South Africans , who arrived here yesterday on what is the least volatile island on their itinerary , feel the political success of their visit is already guaranteed . |
| 14 | The previous evening , I could not have completed the last fifty yards without his help , but now if he had climbed on my back he could not have been more of a hindrance . |
| 15 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 16 | The neutrons thereby produced in turn produced 14 C by interaction with 14 N. This simulated natural cosmogenic production , albeit in large bursts , and roughly doubled the atmospheric 14 C content as measured in about 1965 . |
| 17 | I live in Galway and have been supporting Leeds since 1977–1978 when I think we finished 5th in the first , endured the bad 80 's and have mostly enjoyed the 90's though a couple more trophies would n't go astray . |
| 18 | Yeah , but it 's weird because they epitomise and revitalise the naff '70s . |
| 19 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 20 | His general practitioner had prescribed the hypnotic 3 days before the overdose . |
| 21 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
| 22 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
| 23 | The above ‘ spare time ’ could also include re-activating the full 39 Squadron Association Membership . |
| 24 | The Department of Transport is responsible for maintaining the 25 000 kilometres of trunk roads in England . |
| 25 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 26 | It was organised by several local groups , including Wensleydale railway association , which sees the present 22 mile branch as a vital link in its campaign to restore the last 17 miles of the Wensleydale line between Redmire and Garsdale . |
| 27 | During a series of pre-conference meetings between members of the government-in-exile and its critics , the government reportedly agreed to restore the original 1962 constitution in return for an undertaking by the opposition to affirm its loyalty to the ruling dynasty . |
| 28 | Shouting at the two children talking when they should n't during assembly rather than praising the other two hundred for sitting quietly is typical of a pre-occupation with failure . |
| 29 | Arguing a case involves the following four stages : |
| 30 | To illustrate this , consider a simple example in which producing a woollen coat involves the following three stages of production : |