Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hodkinson will make the first inroads into his fortune by taking a holiday with his wife to Las Vegas to watch the Lennox Lewis-Tony Tucker WBC heavyweight championship fight on May 8 . |
| 2 | Erm they are going into the villages , they 're making contacts with individual peasants erm it 's those peasants that , that they get to stand up and make the first accusations , it 's those peasants who join the Party erm and the process can build up in , in a way which was more difficult before then . |
| 3 | He 'd just been rather cleverer and more subtle at how he 'd gone about seducing her , even ensuring that she 'd initiate the first moves . |
| 4 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 5 | So you have to try and identify the next players and the best way of integrating that new group . |
| 6 | Hera punished Echo by making her unable to speak , except to always repeat the last words anybody said to her . |
| 7 | we could do the first bits and about an hour really , this weekend not at work or anything . |
| 8 | Schoolchildren from Whinfield Junior School will deposit the first cans into the bank in the car park of the Gateway Foodmarket on Whinbush Way . |
| 9 | 1993 , 1994 and 1995 will mark the 50th anniversaries of some of the greatest , most notorious battles and victories of this century . |
| 10 | The Alliance of Small Island States , which includes Cyprus , Malta , the Caribbean islands , Maldives , Seychelles , and many Pacific territories , fear that they may become the first victims of global warming . |
| 11 | What were your meetings like to start with , can you remember the first meetings ? |
| 12 | You can see the first ones where er , our project base . |
| 13 | We can readily see the first steps in this transformation process when we consider the impact of computer technology on capital-investment decisions . |
| 14 | ‘ I envy you , my son , ’ Two-Dogs had told him yesterday , ‘ you will see the last pictures . ’ |
| 15 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 16 | Critics fear the new scheme will remove the last vestiges of strategic planning power : although the new county planning statements will have to cover housebuilding , large industrial and commercial development , and Green Belt issues , they will have no statutory force and can not include detailed land allocations . |
| 17 | The attacks did not constitute the first manifestations of organised racist aggression but the events were used as supporting evidence for the claims of the anti-immigration lobby . |
| 18 | Your marriage has got off to an unfortunate start but it does n't warrant the last rites just yet . |
| 19 | The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in June 1992 will celebrate the first steps towards a comprehensive international framework of agreements allowing developed and undeveloped countries to control the impact of global environmental change . |
| 20 | When those hybrids overran the guards they might simply tear the last survivors apart . |
| 21 | But unemployed Ray , 29 , fears he may miss the next Games in 1996 . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's the right product in the right place at the right time , and the only way you can ever deliver that is if you fully understand your current consumer needs and demands and can accurately anticipate the next ones . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ That means Doyle did n't set the second locks . ’ |
| 24 | There was no sign of any other cars or tanks or armoured personnel carriers and no indication that the police Stukas were waiting to come in and bomb the last pockets of resistance . |
| 25 | If , however , the staffing improvement can be imaginatively exploited to create links between the special school provision , other special provision and primary or secondary schools then it could create the first stages of a unified , coherent service whose institutional boundaries are eroded . |
| 26 | The intimations were unmistakable , and I telephoned Jackie to come and administer the last rites ( so to speak ) . |
| 27 | The main area or areas of complaint will indicate the first tables to consider . |
| 28 | So we 've got , I did have the first names somewhere . |
| 29 | In view of their close relationship , it is fitting that Hofmann should have the last words on Edward Chambers Nicholson . |
| 30 | But the project belonged ultimately to the pupils and they should have the last words . |