Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Leonard learned to talk he was taught to recite the first words of the Shema , the ‘ creed ’ of Judaism which originated on Sinai with Moses and is recited daily : |
| 2 | Well , we 're going to try to provide the first steps towards uniformity . |
| 3 | The group of researchers that has seen the first indications of a Z particle is code named UA1 , and is one of the two teams that reported the evidence for the W particle earlier this year . |
| 4 | SAAB has produced the first pictures of its first new car for quite some time , the new-look 900 . |
| 5 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 6 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 7 | The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members , so they want to land the first blows . |
| 8 | That is the very year that Manchester , spearheaded by Anne , want to host the first Olympics of the new century . |
| 9 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's San Francisco-based Pacific Bell Inc has announced the first customers for its new Advanced Broadcast Video Service . |
| 10 | Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems . |
| 11 | Must Software International has announced the first versions of its 4GL Nomad software for Unix starting with IBM Corp platforms . |
| 12 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 13 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 14 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 15 | The two finishing holes are designed to test the last reserves of the golfer 's confidence . |
| 16 | SynOptics Communications Inc has unveiled the first products based on its six-chip Asynchronous Transfer Moder chip set announced last October ( CI No 2,035 ) : the per-port price of the LattisCell switches ranges from under £1,500 to £2,000 , a half to a third of its competitors ' prices , says the company ; the Santa Clara company also has a technology partnership agreement with Sun Microsystems Inc to develop a 155Mbps asynchronous transfer mode SBus adaptor board that will be made and sold by SynOptics , enabling the LattisCell switches to be directly connected to Sparc systems running the Solaris Unix . |
| 17 | GOVERNORS at Colchester County High School have voted to take the first steps on the road to opting out . |
| 18 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 19 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 20 | He 'd spoken the last words in Italian , and in Italian as fluent and colloquial as his own she answered , ‘ I 'm sorry about that . |
| 21 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 22 | She 'd tacked the first sketches for this picture up on the wall and they looked as if someone else had drawn them . |
| 23 | Then the two , who hope to become the first men to walk 2,200 miles unsupported across Antarctica , battled on to set up a camp and radio their base . |
| 24 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 25 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 26 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 27 | PUB regulars have helped fulfil the last wishes of a friend who died from cancer . |
| 28 | ‘ Being very lazy by nature , I enjoy making the first sketches , but the practical precision , the mathematical measuring necessary to carry out the design and the extreme neatness required , both of which I am very bad at , I find irksome . |
| 29 | She was wanting to describe the nature of the malai government but did n't want to use the first words which came to mind , which were ‘ military dictatorship ’ . |
| 30 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |