Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | Des O'Grady had the honour when he and Kyle came to the 6th . |
| 3 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 4 | The answers Wheatley gave to the first two questions were in favour of retaining the larger unit , but in both cases the government reversed this recommendation in the final legislation . |
| 5 | As Brezhnev explained to the 26th CPSU Congress in 1981 , developments in Iran were ‘ complex and contradictory ’ but what had taken place was nonetheless an ‘ anti-imperialist revolution ’ . |
| 6 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 7 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 8 | From local origins — Station KDKA in Pittsburgh — the transmission of radio broadcasts grew to the first national network , the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) of 1926 , closely followed by the Columbia Broadcasting Company ( CBC ) in 1927 . |
| 9 | The thaw in US-Soviet relations and the unwillingness of both super-powers to prolong the war led to the first publicly acknowledged round of talks between Najibullah and sections of the mujaheddin alliance in November [ see p. 37855 ] . |
| 10 | A flight of granite steps to his right led to the first floor of one of the buildings and an arrow carried the word , ‘ Office ’ . |
| 11 | McCord 's revelations led to the first crack in the united front amongst Nixon 's officials . |
| 12 | Then he and Billie climbed to the next floor and walked down the corridor to Room 416 . |
| 13 | All five matches in this Public Schools Golfing Societies Foursomes Festival went to the 18th except for the Sean Baguley–Tim Jenkins 3 and 2 Tonbridge triumph against Ian Timberlake and Rodney James . |
| 14 | But it was always a struggle and Mellish 's greater professional matchplay experience showed when the match went to the ninth and decisive frame , the English player winning on the black . |
| 15 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 16 | Plans to expand the Windscale site with a major new development led to the first setpiece confrontation between the burgeoning antinuclear movement and the nuclear industry across the polite tables of a public inquiry . |
| 17 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 18 | Next the wife came to the second cavern , where there sat a fearsome bird , large as a mountain ; her feathers were of brass and her beak of iron . |
| 19 | The wife came to the first cavern and saw the dreadful dragon , stretched out all along the sea , shooting out foam and spume from her nostrils , lashing up the waves with her tail . |
| 20 | They were all equally carefully examined by Philip Corder , John Gillam and myself , and there was a unanimous verdict that every sherd belonged to the first century . |
| 21 | All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century , the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures . |
| 22 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 23 | Haynes fell to the first ball of West Indies ' reply , but the local pair of Lara and Simmons added 78 before the former fell to Kuiper . |
| 24 | It is a labour of love by a cast which includes some of Scotland 's finest and best known actors , and while being an expression of passion for theatre it paradoxically undermines the title John Byrne gave to the last of his celebrated trilogy . |
| 25 | Ali ran to the next wall . |
| 26 | Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking . |
| 27 | But that was the word Morse repeated to the first question Lewis put to him about Lucy 's progress at 8.30 a.m. on the Tuesday . |
| 28 | Drawing upon their experiences they produced in their own country buildings which echoed those of Imperial Paris , as anyone familiar with the architecture of , say , Philadelphia and Washington , will readily admit ( in the autumn of 1978 the city of Philadelphia recognized its debt by staging , in its Museum of Art , an exhibition devoted to the Second Empire ) . |
| 29 | Now the woman came to the third cave , where lived the great bee . |
| 30 | Idly Theodora turned to the last page . |