Example sentences of "[conj] the [num ord] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pseudo-variable which points to the position within the file from where the next byte to be read will be taken or where the next byte to be written will be put . |
| 2 | So it is appropriate that the first champion to be whelped in this country was Ch. |
| 3 | What we do know is that the first Rottweiler to be registered with the New Zealand Club was Auslese Montrachet , who was imported from Australia . |
| 4 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 5 | Applying Lord Bridge 's guiding principles it is clear that the first question to be determined in this appeal is what were the transactions which produced the profit to the taxpayer . |
| 6 | It is thought that the first bitch to be imported was from England , Attila Bathsheba , who was imported in whelp to a good dog , Upend Gallant Alf . |
| 7 | It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies . |
| 8 | In a televised speech on Aug. 19 , Yeltsin said that the past year had been " extremely difficult " but that the first steps to normalization were being taken . |
| 9 | There is real hope , probably futile , that the second hike to 17.5 per cent will somehow be wished away . |
| 10 | It is logically possible that the next brick to be released will ‘ fall ’ upwards . |
| 11 | It is particularly ironic , then , that the next lady to whom Wilekin must plead , Dame Sirith , does heed his perseverance in pleading , which includes some good courtly motifs : ( " Unless she changes her mind I shall go mad with sorrow or kill myself . " ) |
| 12 | ( c ) The sequence of instructions being executed is to be changed , so that the next instruction to be executed is not the one stored immediately after the instruction currently being executed . |
| 13 | This would stop Muslim and Croat forces moving into the areas vacated by Serbs , and so meant that the fourth objection to the plan had been removed . |
| 14 | ‘ And that means that you have to be better than the next man to be considered half as good . |
| 15 | This is the percentage mark at which the volume will be considered full if the next module to be formatted requires more than the residual space in the volume . |
| 16 | If the Fourth Symphony to some extent thrives on Brüggen 's extrovert approach , the Pastoral could be said to be diminished by it . |
| 17 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |
| 18 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 19 | It is a striking reminder of the pastoral rural life of long ago and the first pointer to the fact that one is entering ancient quarters . |
| 20 | If A11 = 0 we can bring any non-zero element to the A11 position by the use of I we can then reduce this element to unity by the use of I(l) , and then reduce all the remaining elements of the first row and the first column to zero using I(k) . |
| 21 | ‘ The circumstances of our times ’ , he had then said in his Report to the Committee of the House of Commons on the Poor Laws , ‘ render a change in our internal policy respecting the poor and the working classes absolutely necessary ; and the first question to be decided by every man of all ranks is : shall the alteration be made under the guidance of moderation and wisdom , foreseeing and gradually preparing each step , one regularly after another , thereby preventing a single premature advance — or , shall the change be effected by ignorance and prejudice , under the baneful influence of [ anger and violence ] … . |
| 22 | As such it became the Science Museum 's first aircraft and the first aircraft to be entered into a museum in the UK ( if not the world ) at the same time . |
| 23 | Twenty-seven research institutes will collaborate as working groups and the first buildings to be the object of conservation have been decided upon . |
| 24 | Design work is now progressing rapidly and the GBS is gradually taking shape within the dry dock constructed by McNamara , and the first concrete to the base slab will be placed in late March or early April . |
| 25 | Then we all started demanding cheap food and the first thing to be sacrificed , along with the freedom of a chicken to scratch for worms , was flavour . |
| 26 | And the first thing to be said is that , on their own , beliefs do n't cause actions . |
| 27 | The first is that the book is written for engineers ; project management is for many the first form of management they encounter and the first form to which they are appointed . |
| 28 | During that week , the BEF advanced eastward : the 2nd Corps toward La Bassée , the 3rd in the general direction of Armentieres and the 1st Corps to the north , past Ypres . |
| 29 | and and and the second part to that then is |
| 30 | On the Marshal 's death in 1855 he added the Beresford fortune and estates , which included Bedgebury near Maidstone , to the Hope fortune of £300,000 , and the second Beresford to his name . |