Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to get out of first and second gear quickly to get the best out of the 325 . |
| 2 | Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world . |
| 3 | There should have been a second woman here to receive her honourary degree — Aung San Suu Kyi — founder of the fledgling Burmese democracy movement . |
| 4 | Perhaps for this reason , Haig now extended the front of Second Army northward to include the crucial Menin Road area , thus giving Plumer the principal target : the Gheluvelt plateau due east of Ypres . |
| 5 | The trigonometrical ratios sine , cosine and tangent were used by Hipparchus during the second century BC to calculate the diameter of the Earth and the distance of the Moon with amazing accuracy : 7900 and 238 000 miles respectively . |
| 6 | In other words , the true date lies between TL 1080 and 1240 , with 95 per cent confidence , clearly demonstrating that the third alternative holds : the daub is broadly contemporary with the backfilling of the drain and coincides with clearance of buildings in the eleventh century AD to make way for the building of the priory church . |
| 7 | Finally , we will add a fourth part below to make complete four-part harmony . |
| 8 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 9 | Metalworking remains at Sardis in Turkey suggest that this process , called ‘ parting ’ , was employed there in the sixth century BC to refine gold from the river Pactolus . |
| 10 | The Cloaca Maxima is a floodwater drain built by the Etruscans in the sixth century B.C. to drain the Forum Romanum . |
| 11 | BRITAIN delivered its third significant blow in two days to the world champions , Pakistan , when Mark Maclean put the seventh-seeded Umar Hayat Khan out of the World Open here yesterday , and became the first Scotsman ever to reach the quarter-finals . |
| 12 | There were places where we were the first Westerners ever to have been seen , though we pre-existed in their racial memory as ugly , dominating invaders . |
| 13 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 14 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 15 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 16 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 17 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 18 | For some adults cohabitation before marriage is unthinkable ( in Asian families , for example ) ; for others the idea of marriage without first living together to get to know each other is equally unthinkable . |
| 19 | He said Unprofor would send bulldozers and six dumper trucks loaded with gravel at first light today to plug the hole and clear the road . |
| 20 | The teams made Darlington the first club ever to collect medals in the championship in the same season . |
| 21 | Bill Clinton had come to their shrine on Memorial Day , the first president ever to do so . |
| 22 | This must be the first review ever to end with a load of balls ! |
| 23 | Losses of European forests due to air pollution are running at US$29 billion per year , according to the first study ever to attempt such an estimate of pollution 's financial impact on tree reserves . |
| 24 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 25 | Among them , the first child ever to read The Hobbit ; the son of the publisher Stanley Unwin , who was paid a shilling to read the book and say whether it should be published . |
| 26 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 27 | You think I 'm the first girl ever to meet a man in secret ? |
| 28 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 29 | Erm well the the first point probably to make is that this er the manual that er Mr refers to was only published in June of this year er and clearly in terms of the information that er has been put in the statement , that was based upon the previous way of assessing the impact . |
| 30 | In Makassar harbour they saw the great black-sailed trading schooners of the piratical Bugis tribe , with whom , just 120 years previously , the remarkable naturalist-explorer Alfred Russel Wallace had sailed on his historic odyssey through the Spice Islands to become the first Westerner ever to see alive the Greater Bird of Paradise . |