Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 3 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 4 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 5 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 6 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 7 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 8 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 9 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 10 | The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change . |
| 11 | He realised , with a thrill of annoyance at himself , that in his haste — his weary haste — to get to the hearing that morning , he had omitted to set the second lock with its automatic alarm connection . |
| 12 | After months of national debate it was reported on Aug. 10 that Miyazawa had approved a proposed state visit to China by Emperor Akihito , in October , designed to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic Sino-Japanese relations . |
| 13 | Factory Records created and organised The Festival Of The Tenth Summer , a series of 10 events designed to celebrate the tenth anniversary of punk . |
| 14 | If I told you I want to install the first tube of the bridge next March or thereabouts , what 'd you say ? ’ |
| 15 | To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island . |
| 16 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 17 | Everyone wants to win the First Divisiocn championship . |
| 18 | Less flamboyant and more measured in person than in print , Budhoo speaks with disillusionment about the Fund : ‘ The IMF was never designed to help the Third World or end poverty . |
| 19 | Now the Standing Conference of Principals , the national body which represents colleges like Chester , is to meet to discuss the next move and there are calls to ignore Mr Boswell 's rejection of their case . |
| 20 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 21 | The competitive nature with which most counties have come to contest the Second XI competition adds to the pressure . |
| 22 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 23 | Abroad , he has already attained a high respect internationally for the manner in which he is endeavouring to help the third world and to play a responsible part in eastern Europe . |
| 24 | The Tories say Labour can not be trusted to form the next Government . |
| 25 | In 1908 they were amalgamated to form The 4th Battalion ( TF ) . |
| 26 | Saturation coverage of three-and-a-half weeks of intense campaigning may have given way to non-stop reports of a complicated new chess game — as each main party , neither with an overall majority , manoeuvres to secure the support it will need to form the next Government . |
| 27 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |
| 28 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 29 | Ostensibly the visit was designed to mark the 20th anniversary of the normalization of relations between China and Japan . |
| 30 | Langbaurgh is still a key marginal and if the Tories want to form the next Government , it 's seat like these they need to win and to win well . |