Example sentences of "[vb base] the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , with this creed I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime , I can so sincerely forgive the first , while I abhor the last with this creed revenge never worries my heart , degradation never too deeply disgusts me , injustice never crushes me too low , I live in calm looking to the end . |
| 2 | To this end , some computers provide " reverse " or " inverted " subtract and divide , which ( respectively ) subtract the first from the second operand and divide the second by the first operand . |
| 3 | TITLE-CHASING Orrell make the first of two ‘ do or die ’ league trips to London in nine days when they face Wasps at Sudbury today . |
| 4 | Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm . |
| 5 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 6 | Attach six around the roof at equal intervals and place the seventh in the centre at the top . |
| 7 | The rain eases as I head west ; I catch the last of a wide , bloody-looking sunset over Skye and the Kyles and the floodlights turning Eilean Donan 's grey stones green ; I make it to Strome in four hours twenty minutes from home , arriving just as the stars are coming out above in the purple spaces between the dark , heavy clouds . |
| 8 | Good so if we cut the first into twelfth what how many pieces would they get out of that 's be twelve pieces altogether okay . |
| 9 | announce the second of their Preliminary Badge scheme . |
| 10 | Sixteen years and one month later , Bunny Johnson became the fourth black boxer to win a Lonsdale Belt , the most coveted award in British boxing ( Randolph Turpin was the first in 1956 , Bunny Sterling the second in 1973 , Maurice Hope the third in 1976 ) . |
| 11 | In this chapter we consider the first of these problems : the growth of public expenditure and the difficulties surrounding its control . |
| 12 | Knowing 1 , we now form the matrix 1I — A ; if we put r = 0,1 in ( 13 ) , multiply the first by 1 and then subtract the second : unc Premultiplication of this by |
| 13 | As we head back towards Heimæy I watch the last of the light tinkering with the wave-tops . |
| 14 | Open the first of April . |
| 15 | We 'll go out for a meal after the performance , ’ said her husband , slitting open the last of his letters . |
| 16 | ‘ I think we 'll have to wait until they notify the next of kin before they release that information . ’ |
| 17 | We negotiate the first of the infamous swans . |
| 18 | Add the last of the bourbon to the cloth , swathe the cake in it , then wrap the plastic film around the cloth . |
| 19 | Fireworks are what youngsters are waiting for all year round when they remember , remember the fifth of November . |
| 20 | At the Manor Ground they 'll remember ; remember the 3rd of November for some time . |
| 21 | ‘ No war would ever reach this part of the world , ’ said Robins , ‘ but I remember the last in Europe . |
| 22 | Remember , remember the 5th of November |
| 23 | REMEMBER , remember the fourth of November . |
| 24 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |
| 25 | Put both ribber levers to holding position and knit the first of the three circular rows with the ribber needles in hold position . |
| 26 | e.g. fluvial and glacial exemplify the first of these stages , while deltas represent a second stage division of the former . |
| 27 | Still to come : a full round up of the day 's news from the City , and we preview the first of the season 's major snooker tournaments . |
| 28 | We present the eleventh in a series of essays by winners and runners-up in the 1991 competition . |
| 29 | We present the tenth in a series of essays by winners and runners-up in the 1991 competition . |
| 30 | We present the twelfth in a series of essays by winners and runners-up in the 1991 competition . |