Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Stephen Lloyd for the second to fourth defendants . |
| 2 | All the smart money for the first to finally come up with the goods is on John Lasseter of Pixar , the perennial star of animation festivals and the winner of the 1989 animation Oscar for the short film Tin Toy . |
| 3 | David Vaughan Q.C. , Gerald Barling. , David Anderson and Stephen Swabey , solicitor , for the first to ninety-fourth applicants . |
| 4 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 5 | In the Charter Rooms are deeds , genealogical and family papers for the twelfth to twentieth centuries , from the counties of Cheshire , Derbyshire , Warwickshire and Yorkshire . |
| 6 | The gallery 's catalogues of its French collections are currently undergoing thorough revision : that for the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries currently dates from 1957 and for the nineteenth from 1970 . |
| 7 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 8 | On the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu in south-east India , the Pallava Dynasty which held sway during the fourth to eighth centuries traces its lineage to Naga ancestors , as do many Royal families in Kashmir in the north of India . |
| 9 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
| 10 | There are synovial joints between the fifth to eighth costal cartilages and it is possible that in some of the patients in this series the pain was a result of inflammation in one of these joints . |
| 11 | between the sixteenth to the eighteenth of April . |
| 12 | In fact patriarchy , class , and hierarchy all presupposed a law of gender difference which was at once divinely , naturally , and socially laid down , the law descending from the first through the second to the third . |
| 13 | Northamptonshire is a county rich with fortified sites from Iron Age hillforts to Saxon ‘ burhs ’ , from Norman castles of earth and timber to the stone built castles of the 12th to 14th century . |
| 14 | Between the evening of Friday 6 March and Sunday 8 March a thief stole a number of Near-Eastern items of the ninth to second centuries BC from the Draper 's Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum . |
| 15 | Over the weekend of the 24th to the 26th April , London Branch hits Salford — giving a rare chance for other Convocation members to meet us ! |
| 16 | One resident , Jim Goodson , aged 105 , who enlisted in the Army in 1902 at the age of 17 , remembered being one of the first to be issued with a khaki uniform , an improvement on the red tunics which the Boers picked off so easily . |
| 17 | Can you tell me if this Land Rover is one of the first to be factory fitted with a two litre diesel . |
| 18 | The breed was one of the first to be the subject of a government conservation programme and a five-year scheme was set up in 1976 ; by 1979 there were 80,000 animals . |
| 19 | Ethel , with her good looks , height and dancing standards , was naturally one of the first to be sent across . |
| 20 | Glass membrane potentiometric electrodes were one of the first to be used as part of enzyme electrodes , typically for monitoring of pH in hydrolase catalysed reactions — eg urea assays . |
| 21 | In the event of a coup d'état or any other kind of change in government , the radio building is always one of the first to be visited by the new administration , brought under control , and used to signal to the rest of the country and the world beyond what has taken place . |
| 22 | The coalmining industry was one of the first to be nationalized . |
| 23 | The circuit was one of the first to stage hippodramas , employing Andrew DuCrow [ q.v. ] and his horsemen for this purpose . |
| 24 | The event itself , one of the first to be conducted by the CNAA 's new IFS Board , was an archetype of the theatre of validation , with 120 people at one stage sitting in the Polytechnic boardroom discussing whether or not the course regulations met Principle 3 of the CNAA 's own regulations ( about the balance and nature of the course of study ) . |
| 25 | One of the first to be discovered is a star that is orbiting around Sirius , the brightest star in the night sky . |
| 26 | ‘ But , ’ he says , confidently , ‘ even though we may be one of the first to be affected by cut backs in the economy , we will also be the first out . ’ |
| 27 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
| 28 | And when the bankers and the IMF come knocking , the education budget is one of the first to be hit . |
| 29 | One of the first to be beaten up and hospitalized was Marian Munteanu , the President of the League of Students and one of the leaders of the University Square protest . |
| 30 | The conduct of the elections attracted considerable interest , being the one of the first to be held in a traditionally single-party state since the recent adoption of pluralist systems by a number of sub-Saharan African states [ for Gabon elections see this page ] . |