Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge crowds flock from East and West to see the second half of the artist 's career |
| 2 | HAND PUPPETS made to look like mature Californian condors are being used by biologists at the San Diego wild animal park to nurse the first two Californian condor chicks born in captivity through the early weeks of life . |
| 3 | And it was Ralph Knibbs who took advantage to claim the first try for Bristol . |
| 4 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 5 | Upon 26 December of that year he used the opportunity of the restoration of the Rump Parliament to issue the first of a succession of twice-weekly news-books . |
| 6 | Angel One landed lightly alongside the still twitching body of his victim and immediately re-aligned his fighting stance , facing in the opposite direction to meet the next attack . |
| 7 | The motion , tabled when the government invoked a technical measure to pass the first reading of the 1993 budget without a division , failed when the Communist Party ( PCF ) deputies once again refused to back it , saying that they would not vote with the right . |
| 8 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 9 | American war photographer Chris Morris recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his images and his time in Iraq . |
| 10 | He recently took a rare break to attend the second festival of photojournalism in Perpignan where he spoke to Ted Welch about his time in Iraq . |
| 11 | On Nov. 22 the United States issued invitations to Israel , Lebanon , Syria and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to attend the next phase of the Middle East peace talks in Washington on Dec. 4 . |
| 12 | The exodus of East Germans continued : 18,000 streamed into West Germany before their country took belated action to plug the last hole in its borders by requiring visas for all future trips to Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | If there 's a handy tree , wall or fence to provide the third leg , rest against it : this will increase your camera steadiness quite dramatically . |
| 14 | IRELAND have the expertise — they are coached by Munster senior coach Garrett Fitzgerald — and the talent to reach the last eight . |
| 15 | GERMANY , another side to have ‘ employed ’ the technical know-how of a foreigner ( Emil Signes , the former coach and current manager of the US Eagles sevens side ) were equally unsuccessful in their bid to reach the last four . |
| 16 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 17 | In another action , the speed marchers stretched their stride to cover the last 6 of 20 desert miles after a sharp night action . |
| 18 | Although White managed to stop the rot after the restart , taking frame 14 with a clearance of 43 , Davis kept his nerve to win the next 96-5 and clinch the match . |
| 19 | The one major attempt to apply the Third period model in Latin America , in El Salvador in 1932 ( where the Comintern operated through International Red Aid ) , was quickly and brutally suppressed by a massacre of over 30,000 people . |
| 20 | In June , the new centre took a major step towards completion when the Rt Hon Norman Irons , Lord Provost of Edinburgh , attended a special ceremony to fit the last reflective glass panel into place . |
| 21 | ‘ Basically we have adopted the original Decca configuration of microphones used from the 1950s through to the 1970s , but we do n't use a tree microphone in the middle of the orchestra ; we have a three-point microphone in front of the conductor and an omni-pair on either side to cover the first violin and first cello . |
| 22 | The Comintern 's aim was to convert a nationalist struggle into a broader social struggle ( in accordance with part of its remit ) , but Comintern officials made no serious attempt to fulfil the second part of the resolutions adopted at the Sixth Congress by setting up a Communist party in Nicaragua , which could have given the Sandinista movement an organisational base and therefore the possibility of continuity ( Cerdas Cruz : 1986a , pp. 363–97 ) . |
| 23 | It seems as though , when the need was felt again for a monument to adorn the last resting place of the rich and great , it was met by monumentalising the only existing art , that of painted pottery . |
| 24 | The Welshman had two chances at the pink to win the last frame of the afternoon but it was Hendry , with pink and black , who went through to play John Parrott in tomorrow 's semi-final . |
| 25 | This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities . |
| 26 | During a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the group 's move to its new location , 300 people , including over 160 police officers , were injured in battles between 1,400 police and at least 7,000 demonstrators . |
| 27 | June 1930 saw two Iris IIIs ( S1263 and S1264 ) flying from Plymouth to Iceland ( Reykjavik ) as part of the ceremony to mark the 1,000th anniversary of the Icelandic Parliament . |
| 28 | The prince unveiled a plaque to mark the 600th anniversary of the swannery , which was founded by Benedictine monks . |
| 29 | On an evening in April , the Branch gave 65 Sqn ATC a plaque to mark the 50th anniversary of their inauguration . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State for Defence reopened a list as an exception to allow the Association to mark the fortieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty the Queen , our patron , to the throne . |