Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 2 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 3 | Readers simply wanting to get the system working should disregard the next four paragraphs . |
| 4 | Pulling a few exaggerated grimaces just before you go through the door will help you make the first important smile . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm now 36th in the European merit order , but I feel I can make the first 25 ’ , said big hitter Clarke before teeing off in Switzerland . |
| 6 | The two surviving second division clubs have been drawn together so either Meadowbank or Montrose will make the last four . |
| 7 | And if , one day , the pick-up does catch on over here with the vigour of Ray-Ban shades , Zippo lighters and Levi jeans , it will make the last great fashion car , the Golf GTi , look about as silly as velvet loon pants . |
| 8 | You can not treat the second that way ; it simply affirms for some people a principle it denies to others . |
| 9 | Does anyone want the last hot chestnut ? ’ |
| 10 | Just as exposure to syphilis causes eye problems , so can it affect the eighth cranial ( auditory ) nerve and cause a degree of deafness . |
| 11 | Italtel SpA is to install around 400,000 lines for Telecom Argentina SA over the next three years in a deal worth $600m : it says it will install the first 58,000 lines this year and the rest of them by 1996 |
| 12 | and then it 'll memorize the next three or four pages from that one . |
| 13 | Labour would not win the next general election on its own and should accept electoral reform , David Owen , SDP leader , told a Plymouth meeting . |
| 14 | From the time of the Falklands War , it was certain that the Tories would win the next general election , and that Mrs Thatcher would gain new stature as Prime Minister . |
| 15 | It will win the first division championship , just as my right hon. Friend will certainly win the next general election . |
| 16 | As question marks over Mr Major 's future grew at Westminster , Mr Heseltine said Mr Lamont 's speech would be forgotten very quickly and Mr Major would win the next general election . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt stiff and lethargic and my mind was n't tuned into the job — I definitely did n't enjoy the first ten minutes . |
| 18 | The return departure from the Harbour will be quite late so the organisers are asking for intermediate stops at Guildford , Woking and Clapham Junction on the return run to enable passengers to detrain and catch the last suburban services home . |
| 19 | To achieve this a user can reference the next approved version of a module in anticipation of that module 's approval . |
| 20 | Can anyone photocopy the last 6/7 season stats and mail them onto me please . |
| 21 | In consultation with Associate Producer Mervyn Pinfield , who would direct the first four episodes , Whitaker won an agreement that everything should be done to portray the Sensorites as timid , sympathetic creatures , leaving true villainy to the beast present , if mostly dormant , in the hearts of men . |
| 22 | Once this run is completed , Offline will automatically update the next Offline run start time by adding the interval to the current start time . |
| 23 | If we can survive the next hundred years or so , we will have spread to other planets and possibly to other stars . |
| 24 | These days , more and more people are asking me , ‘ Mr Punch , how can we survive the next few years ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ They know they have no option but to stay in the job and try and do better , but the harsh truth is that those who have high production costs and low productivity will not survive the next three or four years of rapid transition . ’ |
| 26 | Because we observe changes in Hox expression in neural crest and motor nerves as well as in the early neural epithelium , multiple groups of cells that will enter and populate the first branchial arch may have adopted a second branchial arch identity . |
| 27 | Together , Hunter and McColgan could help achieve the first British team success since the English women 's squad triumphed at Neuchatel , Swotzerland , in 1986 . |
| 28 | Note that unc and unc can not both be zero , or A would be singular and R would not exist ; similarly for unc We choose a nonzero element from these four -say unc and then unc The last step is not arbitrary : we must exclude the first three rows ( containing units ) , so that the only choice for pivot in the next step is D44 , which can not be zero . |
| 29 | In 1870 they helped organize the first All-Russian Industrial Exhibition and the first All-Russian Congress of Manufacturers and People Interested in Native Industry . |
| 30 | Rather a dreary , grey looking place not very eye catching to me but that did n't matter the next eight hours ' driving did . |