Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've sent me flowers and choclates , and they 've expressed a desire to accommodate the two young men who 've done this at their own institutions |
| 2 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 3 | Renault plans to target the 1.4 RT version at long-distance travellers , reckoning that its spacious interior , high equipment and trim levels and supple ride will enable the top-spec Clio to rival bigger cars for commuting . |
| 4 | Emulation Program ( EP ) to enable the 3720 Remote Controller |
| 5 | The many coats of paint helped to preserve the P-40 ready for the day when she would fly again . |
| 6 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 7 | This would have to carry the 3.0 m ewes which the Meat and Livestock Commission consider would be needed to provide the present contribution , 50% of national lamb production , from upland and hill ewes as well as the 800,000 or so cows receiving subsidy . |
| 8 | Detective Chief Superintendent Cole , the final witness at the inquest , said he was unable to interview the two arresting constables , as they had been advised by their solicitors not to answer questions . |
| 9 | Cassowary was too far away to see the two splintered twigs that fell from beneath the trickster 's wings and vanished among the tree-tops . |
| 10 | I 'm glad to see the two hundred thousand , though I would have picked it up under , erm , children already erm , over the age of about five , but maybe I 've got that wrong . |
| 11 | He looked up just in time to see the two red tail-lights drop behind the hill . |
| 12 | One of the strengths of the show is that care has been taken to select relatively unknown pieces by the better known artists , I was particularly pleased to see the two big charcoal drawings form the early work of Paula Modersohn-Becker and the series of eight lithographs by Charlotte Berend-Corinth of Anita Berber in her erotic costumes . |
| 13 | To see the five early seventeenth-century working miniature firearms from the workshop of Michel Mann of Augsburg and Nuremberg , a rare mechanical calculator made by Johann Schuster in 1822 , a German Royal hunting knife made in Berlin in 1699 by Jaques Munier , and a pair of mid-eighteenth-century four-light candelabra ( attributed to Christian Heinrich Ingermann ) made for Augustus III , Elector of Saxony alongside what are traditionally regarded as archetypal ‘ German ’ and ‘ Austrian ’ works , such as paintings , watercolours and prints by the German Expressionists , does indeed focus the mind on the manifold contributions to the history of art made by artists of the German speaking countries . |
| 14 | It is suggested that a useful starting point might be to classify the nine major points of difference which are outlined as distinguishing the two value positions . |
| 15 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 16 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 17 | Not as clear as that , it 's not a ris , it 's not that they 're either going to lose the six double O one and half a million , it 's the thing that 's , admit that they might , and it weakens our position . |
| 18 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 19 | ‘ Lady Mosley , ’ I shall say , ‘ Would you care to compare the two following sensations ? ’ |
| 20 | The project staff continued to support the 1:50 000 geological mapping programme of the Jordan Natural Resource Authority ( NRA ) by providing professional supervision , advice and editing . |
| 21 | The structure of OS/400 and the hardware are being remodelled not only to look and behave more like Unix , but actually be more like Unix ; with commitment to support the four basic level Posix standards , 1003.1 to 1003.4 , IBM says Posix will be central to the re-design of OS/400 , built into the licensed internal code beneath the machine interface level . |
| 22 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 23 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 24 | This tactic , described by the Dutch government as " positive opting out " by the Eleven , effectively left the decision on the social policy chapter as an intergovernmental accord to implement the 1989 Social Charter using EC institutions and machinery ( as with the Schengen agreement on border controls — see pp. 38505 ; 38297 ) . |
| 25 | Students and staff had taken a break from lectures , others had travelled from Murray 's home town of Bath and the family home in Lancashire to attend the 40 minute service . |
| 26 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 27 | ( 43 ) in HepG2 cells , where immune serum against NF-IL6 is able to inhibit the IL-6 induced complex in gel retardation experiments . |
| 28 | Since the findings of the surveys described in Chapter 6 , the message promoting the lobon-gur solution had been revised so as to include the four different recognised types of diarrhoea and the use of refined sugar as a substitute for gur when the latter was unavailable . |
| 29 | At half past crack next morning we emerged , breakfasted and loaded into the van to drive the 70 odd miles to Devizes . |
| 30 | Inside , the drawing-room and dining-room are of different shapes , with long windows angled deliberately to catch the two main views of the estuary . |