Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Those who are to be returned to unit as unsuitable can come overland together with those who will be required to form a second squadron to operate in a later phase . ’ |
| 2 | A Boeing 707 belonging to the Colombian national airline Avianca crashed on Long Island , New York , on Jan. 25 , during a second attempt to land at the city 's John F. Kennedy airport , causing the death of 67 people and injuring some 80 of the remaining 91 people on board . |
| 3 | Officials at Faro Airport said the three-engined plane crashed on its second attempt to land in heavy rain and crosswinds of up to 40mph . |
| 4 | ‘ Above all , the British industrial revolution was a regional phenomenon ’ ( Pollard , 1981 ) ; but often pioneering regions , four declined soon after they had made their vital contribution ( Cornwall , Shropshire , North Wales and the Derbyshire uplands ) , while two more ( Tyneside and Clydeside ) had to get something like a second wind to survive as centres of expanding metal industries and shipbuilding . |
| 5 | In 1515 , we find a cow being left to provide a light before the rood to burn from the second peal to matins , and till high mass is done and from the second peal to evensong till evensong be done for ever more . |
| 6 | Weaver 's body was photographed , and taken away in the second ambulance to arrive on the scene . |
| 7 | Chicago showed enough life early in the second half to get within seven points of the Bucs , but ended up scoring only 35 points to Tampa Bay 's 42 , the most points scored against the Bears since 1981 . |
| 8 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 9 | On a certain summer day , processions from both villages met en route to the same holy shrine , the procession from one village to pray for rain to make the cabbages grow bigger , and the other procession from the second village to pray for sunshine to ripen the grapes . |
| 10 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 11 | The second point to note about the Ellis and Bowerman surveys is that neither was concerned with cases of really outstanding creativity , of the kind that have been the subject of individual biographical analyses . |
| 12 | Many fear they will have to take out a second mortgage to pay for the spin-off merchandise from the Macauley Culkin sequel : Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York . |
| 13 | These formations , 19 divisions in all , were broken within a week at the Battle of Morhange-Sarrebourg by the machine-gun , the second weapon to emerge in great numbers ; with it , entire ranks of advancing men could be cut down . |
| 14 | ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’ |
| 15 | Scarlet had found it all very puzzling and upsetting : she could n't envisage herself telephoning her first husband 's second wife to complain about her child — even if they had n't gone to Australia . |
| 16 | At first , the father brought the second wife to live in his home and Mrs Kizza was forced to return to her father 's village . |
| 17 | Just time for a quick honeymoon followed by a few fond farewells , and the intrepid sailor was off again on board his old ship on 17 February , leaving his second wife to look after her newly-acquired stepchildren , Elizabeth Eliza and Robert Edward , in his absence . |
| 18 | Thus the signalman was prevented from inadvertently releasing signals for a second train to enter before the first was clear . |
| 19 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 20 | 1-0 at half time was n't so bad , especially with a second leg to come at the Manor . |
| 21 | There 's a second leg to survive at Tranmere on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Tacit consent was the tactic which Locke used in his Second Treatise to escape from the dilemma of reconciling his basic principle — " The Liberty of Man , in Society , is to be under no other Legislative Power , but that established , by consent , in the Commonwealth … " ( 22 , p. 301 ) — with the desirability of a stable and durable system of government which would not have to be submitted to the people for constant re-endorsement . |
| 23 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 24 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 25 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 26 | It was a formal French dinner-party : best china , a second maid to wait at table , three wines . |
| 27 | And they have a second honeymoon to go with their second wedding — Amanda 's £1,500 Caribbean holiday prize for winning Slimming magazine 's competition . |
| 28 | The second thing to say about humorous crime fiction is that you have to reconcile in your pages that sharp difference between crime , which arises from evil , and laughter , which is by and large a manifestation of good . |
| 29 | Back to Herod , and the second thing to learn from him about bullies . |
| 30 | That was the third angry walkout in one biological day , and the second threat to resign in less than a bio-week . |