Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |
| 2 | We prefer to generalise and to treat the three lines independently . |
| 3 | Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth . |
| 4 | They tried to reconcile the different strengths , ranges and parity properties of the weak and electromagnetic interactions , and to convert the two separate theories into a unified theory . |
| 5 | A long prison sentence is the penalty for an unlicensed firearm and to keep the three men on bail , year after year , with this terrifying threat hanging over them was a most effective way to deter them from exposing the monstrous injustice of their treatment either in the media or with the European Commission of Human Rights . |
| 6 | IT HAS not been much of a week for Welsh politicians because the country 's resounding rejection of Mr Neil Kinnock has been followed by the decision of the International Rugby Board to ignore the reservations expressed by the Welsh Rugby Union and to hold the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 7 | Obviously the other side of the gap had to be blocked in , and to represent the 1840s the choice fell on Timofey Granovsky , in his time a renowned liberal professor and public speaker , and to a lesser extent a man of letters . |
| 8 | The operator inside was required to raise up , manually , the speech box lid mechanism and to actuate the three flashing lights whenever the robot spoke . |
| 9 | Alongside the power socket are a pair of sockets from which to remotely switch the effect bypass and to take the ME-6 from ‘ program ’ into ‘ manual ’ mode , where each of the 6 pedals activates individual effects , making the ME-6 work just like a series of ordinary pedals . |
| 10 | Attlee flew to Washington in November 1945 with two purposes in mind : to agree a joint Anglo-American approach in the United Nations on the international control of atomic weapons ; and to update the 1943 Quebec Agreement . |
| 11 | In essence , each of the four agreed to contribute a quarter of the programmes and to show the three-quarters contributed by the other three in its own region . |
| 12 | There was no alternative for Gould but to suppress the 20 plates he had published , refund his subscribers , and go straightaway to Australia to find out what they looked like . |
| 13 | Nolan J. accepted that , as a practical matter , Woolwich had little choice but to make the three payments . |
| 14 | He concluded : ‘ I accept that , as a practical matter , Woolwich had little choice but to make the three payments . ’ |
| 15 | You 've got no option but to wait the five years . |
| 16 | The health authority will decide at its meeting on Friday whether to buy the two machines before April . |
| 17 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 18 | Since the findings of the surveys described in Chapter 6 , the message promoting the lobon-gur solution had been revised so as to include the four different recognised types of diarrhoea and the use of refined sugar as a substitute for gur when the latter was unavailable . |
| 19 | Oriental Rugs : A Buyer 's Guide has been systematically organized to answer all your immediate questions , as well as to provide the one source of long-term reference you will ever need . |
| 20 | I 've heard it repeated on the radio recently and even the Secretary of State did n't go so far as to use the ninety percent figure but was talking about the seriously mentally ill and the not so seriously mentally ill . |
| 21 | In other words , can the web binding production and consumption be conceived as drawn so tight as to collapse the two together ? |
| 22 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |