Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one-sided affair ought to have seen the hosts cash in on early superiority , even before Booth struck in the 31st minute to break the deadlock with a well-placed glancing header off Darren Ferguson 's corner . |
| 2 | Here , and at Mudford , the peasants decided in the sixteenth century to enclose the open fields and reallocate land , but there is no dramatic single or well-documented event to explain the picture we can see in the landscape today . |
| 3 | Other earthworks probably indicate an irrigation or leat system built in the sixteenth century to help the Spencer family 's ranching activities . |
| 4 | Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance . |
| 5 | There were times , subsequently , when I felt I should have hired a second vet to check the location and fitting of my own cranium . |
| 6 | But Pond Pavarotti , which qualified in third place , is up against second favourite to win the classic , Glengar Ranger , and another top notcher , Taringar Bay . |
| 7 | By reflecting the light , the tapetum gives the rods a second change to absorb the rays . |
| 8 | It is the second blow to hit the bird sanctuary in as many weeks . |
| 9 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 10 | The second attempt to replace the Quebec Agreement with something more useful than the modus vivendi began in September 1949 , just after the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb was confirmed , and coincidentally with a devaluation of sterling , which threw a spotlight on the shakiness of the British economy . |
| 11 | An agreement to do so was signed in February 1950 , just over a month after the breakdown of the second attempt to replace the 1943 Quebec Agreement . |
| 12 | Our second attempt to embrace the computer age — as our pages frequently urge our readers to do — is a lot more sophisticated . |
| 13 | Order is eventually restored through the good offices of the interpreters Kelly and Jack , but no sooner are the terrorists under control than there is a second attempt to sabotage the convention by characters from television who demand representation . |
| 14 | The outcome was a humiliation for Walesa when , on June 28 , members voted to override his second attempt to block the legislation . |
| 15 | If not taken , it would pose a grievous threat to the Germans ' right when they made — as Falkenhayn planned — a second attempt to outflank the Allied left . |
| 16 | On Feb. 15 Khan announced that there would be a second attempt to cross the border on March 30 , the anniversary of the death of another JKLF leader . |
| 17 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 18 | A TECHNICAL failure on the space shuttle Atlantis has given anti-nuclear activists time to return to court for a second attempt to prevent the space craft 's launch , which they believe risks raining radioactive material over Florida . |
| 19 | The regulations represent the Government 's second attempt to amend the regulation that previously applied in such cases — regulation 72 , introduced in April 1987 . |
| 20 | It is the second tragedy to hit the family in nine months . |
| 21 | TIPPING Tim is favourite in all books to become only the second horse to land the Mackeson-A F Budge Cup double . |
| 22 | COLCHESTER 'S quest to become only the second club to complete the non-League double continues today , with a 6,000-plus crowd expected at Layer Road for the Vauxhall FA Trophy semi-final clash with Macclesfield . |
| 23 | I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . |
| 24 | As it was getting late , it was time to recruit the assistance of a second machine to get the job done on time … . |
| 25 | The curtain went up on the second act to reveal the face from this image lying on the ground where it was walked over and trampled on by the cast . |
| 26 | England were perhaps flattered by the scoreline against the Scots but did well in the second half to get the game moving in the direction that they wanted . |
| 27 | The home side at times pulled almost everybody back in the second half to withstand the threat of Giggs and the equally elusive Lee Sharpe , although Sheffield also forced chances of their own . |
| 28 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 29 | In the second place to put the onus of preventing censorship in libraries on individual librarians is unreasonable and unrealistic . |
| 30 | In the same year that Accrington Stanley became only the second team to leave the league through bankruptcy — Aldershot F.C . |