Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 Coming back , as always , to the Jurassic , one has only to compare the 30 ammonite zones represented in one foot of sediment in Sicily with the 15 000 feet representing a single zone in Oregon , to realise how startlingly different rates of deposition must have been in different places .
2 The cuts do not have to be deep , just enough to enable the two lapel corners to be lifted with the thin wedge end of the knife handle to reveal the green cambium layer beneath .
3 The quality is good enough to enable the 158s to replace the Mark 3 push-pull trains in Scotland as well as the Mark 2s .
4 The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowder tied to the man 's neck .
5 It is impossible to define an optimal treatment period but it should obviously be long enough to eliminate the one main cause of non-specific infection , chlamydia .
6 Now I do n't want necessarily to equate the two of them .
7 And Jill Richter 's mother had money , quite enough to front the 400 .
8 And in Europe , Andy and Nick have marched the fairways together to win the 1987 Spanish Open , another PGA title in 1989 , the French Opens of 1988 and 1989 , and the Dunhill Masters and Volvo Masters of 1989 .
9 The mind of a young child is not yet strong enough to hold the two conflicting emotions .
10 John Eckmire , managing director of Labatt 's , the lager brewers who pump £2million into the team , said : ‘ All the sponsors need to get together to get the two men talking again .
11 His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week
12 He wore a T-shirt regardless of the season of the year and kept his hair cropped short enough to reveal the half-dozen tiny scars on his head where the stubble would n't grow .
13 Cassowary was too far away to see the two splintered twigs that fell from beneath the trickster 's wings and vanished among the tree-tops .
14 Distributing next year 's maintained payment between the two new companies has clearly not been an easy task and question marks must remain over the board 's decision just to split the 1993 payment straight down the middle with the promise that each company will not pay less than 27.5p a share .
15 Britain 's strategy was not just to block the Six , but to have something in place should they succeed in getting their common market off the ground .
16 Inside , the drawing-room and dining-room are of different shapes , with long windows angled deliberately to catch the two main views of the estuary .
17 Indeed , he failed totally to answer the two questions that were asked of him , and I know why .
18 JACKY Durand , 25 , one of the lesser known French professionals , produced the longest escape in the history of the Tour of Flanders yesterday to win the 164 miles Belgian classic at Meerbeke .
19 But in a time of rapid change it is difficult always to separate the two .
20 They want the Government to do more to reclaim the millions plundered by the tycoon .
21 From this time onward , a kind of oscillating magnetism seemed ever more to bind the three brothers of Trazior , attracting each to one , and one to each , yet also — as well — repelling each in a bizarre negative of friendship .
22 Just like to ask the hundred women here , we have the Chippendales , and we have the men from Texas now we always hear that they 're sell-outs , you know
23 But as researchers are beginning to realise , the way to learn the most about ourselves is probably to combine the two approaches .
24 The tidal wave of Dancing Brave 's progress up the Longchamp straight to win the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe provided the greatest moment of European Flat racing in the 1980s .
25 Lungs initially develop from an outgrowth of the sheet that lines the gut near the mouth and then this outgrowth branches repeatedly to give the millions of microscopic lobes in the lung .
26 He returned again a decade later to record the six Schübler Chorales , the Trio Sonata No. 5 in C ( BWV529 ) and ( like Rawsthorne ) the weighty St Anne Fugue ; only Downes also includes the Prelude .
27 I am perfectly prepared to accept six set back , the thing to do would be to probably to separate the six , and six and a new seven .
28 In a country where public education is sketchy , it is a double tragedy that TV air time is not used both to teach the three ‘ R's and supplement the four hours per day schooling .
29 Set against the British Rail 's as yet unapproved plans for a single specially constructed high speed line between the Channel Tunnel and London look rather modest although work is underway to electrify the three main trunk routes between London and Glasgow to take trains at up to 225kph .
30 Next year 's conference will be in Birmingham , with plans underway to hold the 1995 sessions in the V&A .
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