Example sentences of "[num ord] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were second to every ball in the opening 20 minutes . |
| 2 | Second to the influence of the priest or presiding minister is that of the person responsible for the music , for music can make or mar a service as powerfully as anything else . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's nice to get honours but as long as Derry bring the Sam Maguire Cup home that 's all that matters — personal displays come second to the performance of the team , ’ he maintains . |
| 4 | We were second to the ball every time . |
| 5 | ‘ But for clubs going from the fourth to the third sums between £50,000 and £100,000 are about the going rate so £200,000 from the second to the Premier does n't seem unlikely , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The value of the first parameter in the line using the procedure or function is passed to the first variable named in the parameter list in the definition , the second to the second , and so on . |
| 7 | Amstrad is using three , unidentified , eight-bit processors in the machine — one is dedicated to the hand-writing recognition , the second to the screen display while third deals with general processing . |
| 8 | The first figure relates to the writer 's or composer 's percentage ( 95 or 85 per cent ) , and the second to the amount retained by the publisher ( 5 or 15 per cent ) . |
| 9 | Second to the son of Germany 's dead Prince Johannes and Bavarian Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis is Athina Roussel , seven-year-old daughter of the late Christina Onassis . |
| 10 | Now , after the Fifth Army 's first abortive assaults on the Mort Homme , Falkenhayn wrote on March 30th to the Crown Prince , noting that ‘ the employment of four fresh divisions … had led to no successes ’ , and asking for information as to his future intent and expectations . |
| 11 | During the period of Tatar domination from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth centuries , Russia under the Golden Horde had been the most westerly province of the great Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan ; but from 1582 onwards the tide was turned and the European Slavs rapidly found themselves rulers of a vast colonial domain stretching across Asia to the northern Pacific . |
| 12 | Furthermore , in February 1711 , as part of a general move to increase revenue , it was decided to sell the " Commons and Waste Grounds " of Stockport , sufficient to yield about £60 a year ; of this , one sixth was to be paid to the Mayor towards defrayment of the costs of his office , and another sixth to the Schoolmaster , while the remaining two thirds were devoted to the poor of the town . |
| 13 | With the N1 cam between needles 5 and 6 to the left of the centre , the fifth stitch of the pattern will come to the left of the ‘ V ’ and the sixth to the right of the ‘ V ’ ( viewed from the purlside ) . |
| 14 | He took Swindon from the fourth to the second within three years of arriving in nineteen eighty four . |
| 15 | Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody . |
| 16 | He went first to a choir school , St Michael 's College , Bexley , then , having failed his Eleven-Plus , to Oakfield School , Dulwich , where he received the private education on which his parents were so keen , although that meant sacrifices for them , such as giving up smoking . |
| 17 | When the family had settled in Ireland again , William Joyce was sent first to a convent school and later to the College of St Ignites Loyal in Galway , to be educated by the Jesuits . |
| 18 | Young Eric , who was modestly competent in English but certainly not fluent , was packed off first to a boarding school then to University College School , Hampstead . |
| 19 | The sale , the first to a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) , included the delivery of Mi-17 helicopters , armoured personnel carriers , and equipment for special use by Turkish security forces . |
| 20 | It had happened before — a surge in mortgage lending , which led first to a boom and then to a bust . |
| 21 | This is in sharp contrast to Britain where progress up the hierarchy of the party is very much a process of starting at the bottom and working up , first to a seat in Parliament and then , possibly , to ministerial office . |
| 22 | During the strike , the policy was justified by reference first to a section in the Road Traffic Act 1972 which allows a police officer in uniform to stop vehicles and secondly to the common law breach of the peace power . |
| 23 | All was soon forgotten as we trooped off first to a reception thrown by the Count and Countess de Vogue , and then to the Worthington , Fort Worth 's grand hotel , for dinner and dancing . |
| 24 | But the service had looked at 18 areas and applied a Home Office computer to determine which fire station turns out first to a fire . |
| 25 | I turn first to a submission based on section 72 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , which , so far as material , provides : |
| 26 | The teacher 's ruler would point first to a pupil and then to a particular feature on the map . |
| 27 | Furthermore , only nine , a very low number , are to laymen , and the first to a donee with a Scandinavian name is from 1019 . |
| 28 | In On the Night of the Fire ( 1939 , The Fugitive in US ) , Ralph Richardson plays a small-town barber whose desire to be shot of a miserable life , ‘ earning a few quid a week and no hope of making anything more ’ leads him first to an act of casual theft , then murder . |
| 29 | But first to the Abbey Stadium . |
| 30 | Step 1 Speak first to the person who arranged the policy for you , or to the General Accident office who handle your insurance . |