Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [num ord] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence this meant : ( 1 ) lengthening the 10th by re-siting the green to its present position from its earlier one part way down the fairway ; ( 2 ) shortening the 11th to its present par 3 from its previous 4 . |
| 2 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 3 | Last summer , he and fellow Teesside Polytechnic student Paul Kuiken , 19 , were prevented by police from becoming the first to canoe over the 72-ft High Force waterfall in Teesdale because of fears they would be killed . |
| 4 | Wembley blamed the Gulf war and the recession for trading profits falling a third to £14.6m and the gloom was deepened by a £7.5m exceptional charge against its investment in Leisure Resource Group , redundancy costs and a £3.2m restructuring of its American ticketing business . |
| 5 | The world 's biggest collection of Korean ceramics over 1,000 pieces spanning the tenth to nineteenth centuries was formed from 1951 by the Japanese industrialist Eiichi Ataka . |