Example sentences of "[verb] to the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than a tenth of the world 's soils have lost a substantial amount of their natural fertiliser in the past 45 years , according to the first results of a 15-year Global Assessment of Soil Degradation , funded by the UN Environment Programme . |
| 2 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 3 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 4 | ‘ I find by the time I get to the last houses on Christmas Eve , rum custard has congealed into a nasty skin , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Instead of switching to the next phases to be excited are , which enables the motor to develop maximum negative torque at that position . |
| 6 | As though clinging to the last moments of a vanishing pleasure , he counted the baulks of timber edging darkly towards the boats . |
| 7 | But we are now drifting to the next stages of the methodology . |
| 8 | I have seen it — Not long ago , in Moscow on quite another mission , I tiptoed up the great empty staircase and , with a diplomatic passport in my pocket , stood in the eternal dusk that shrouds old ballrooms when they are asleep — With its plump brown pillars and gilded mirrors , it was better suited to the last hours of a sinking liner than the launch of a great initiative . |
| 9 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 10 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 11 | This view led to the first restrictions on private members ' capacity to interrupt or hold up business whenever they liked — or whenever they could get the House to listen to them , for there was always considerable self-discipline . |
| 12 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 13 | The melody is given to the 1st violins ( also divisi ) in octaves . |
| 14 | They sold to the second buyers for the purpose of compounding into food for pigs and poultry . |
| 15 | Waldendale means the dale of the Welshman , Welsh being a word once used to describe any foreigner , though in this case it probably refers to the last remnants of the Celtic peoples who retreated to this dale in the face of Norse and Anglo-Saxon expansion . |
| 16 | She clung to the last vestiges of reality . |
| 17 | Well what will that mean to the sixth forms then ? |
| 18 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 19 | He had supported Pennethorne 's design because it was the cheapest and did not encroach on the park , but if they abandoned that design they were bound to take the first prize design , ‘ but as there was some difficulty about that ’ , it should go to the second prize-winners . |
| 20 | Certainly the children admitted to the first asylums were those most in need . |
| 21 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 22 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , top marks have been awarded to the 3rd Shortfields Pack , whose tableau of Brownies through the years was thought the most original and apt . ’ |
| 23 | That will be left to the next entertainments secretary . |
| 24 | With a two goal lead from the first leg the pressure was off Swindon for once last night as they tackled Wolves at Molineux … and when Nicky Summerbee gave them the lead they could afford to sit back and cruise to the third rounds … |
| 25 | In 1822 he was commissioned as lieutenant in the 9th Royal Dragoons , transferring to the 12th Lancers in 1826 . |
| 26 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |
| 27 | The treats will be sent to the first names picked out of the postbag after that date . |
| 28 | The label ‘ Angry Young Men ’ , a term originally used to describe John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger , was extended to the first novels of Kingsley Amis , John Wain , and Colin Wilson . |
| 29 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 30 | The nucleus , which controls the production of proteins , also listens to the second messengers . |