Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another point to be remembered in this connection is that an examiner is much more willing to give the first 50 per cent . |
| 2 | The reason for this policy is that it is relatively easy to obtain the first few marks ( say 10 per cent ) for an examination question . |
| 3 | With coffee prices badly depressed , the tea industry seemed set to become the second principal source of foreign exchange earnings . |
| 4 | The only way to remove the Government was for Labour to win the next general election . |
| 5 | SACHIN Tendulkar , Yorkshire 's first overseas signing , is likely to miss the first five matches of the season because he is contracted to play in Bombay . |
| 6 | The Tyrone men have another important League fixture this afternoon — visitors Limavady inspired by the mercurial Des Curry are likely to provide the first searching test of Strabane 's ability to stay the course . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ Current scientific opinion strongly suggests that combination therapy is likely to provide the next major advance in the management of HIV infection . |
| 8 | So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more . |
| 9 | After the screening , the audience had the chance to question , Simon Shepherd and Sophie Ward , who admitted they 'd found it hard to play the second romantic leads ; |
| 10 | Ratification of the Maastricht deal is likely to prove the first real test of Mr Major 's new Government . |
| 11 | A new gamma-ray observatory satellite to be launched in 2001 seems likely to become the first joint space mission between European , Russian and US space agencies . |
| 12 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 13 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 14 | Would anyone be able to enjoy the first public performance of a pageant , devised and directed by Mr Malik , with the working title of Islamic Wimbledon ? |
| 15 | In Molly 's absence Kay Evans presented certificates to three of the teachers who qualified in 1980 and who were unable to attend the last qualified teachers ' meeting . |
| 16 | be able to see the last little of it . |
| 17 | Thanks to new technology , ICI was able to launch the first solvent-free emulsions in the USA and UK in March 1992 . |
| 18 | Unless you happen to be a keen follower of American football , you are more likely to be able to answer the first six questions than the last two . |
| 19 | It is important to use the first few sentences to summarise the story you are presenting . |
| 20 | Controlling activities arc so closely linked to Planning and Decision-making activities that it would be advisable to study the next two chapters in conjunction with Chapters 16 and 17 . |
| 21 | Like an Elizabethan tickling the back of his throat with a peacock feather to induce vomiting so he would be able to face the next enormous course , he brought up another cloud of ghosts . |
| 22 | So er it seems to me that it 's particularly invalid to take the last three years . |
| 23 | Harford , who moved to Chelsea last summer and has since scored 10 goals , is now backing United to become the first Premier League champions . |
| 24 | A major new library opened in 1973 and soon afterwards Nottingham was proud to open the first Medical School to be established in Britain this century . |
| 25 | Within twenty-four hours of the publication of the Report , Boyle rose in the House of Commons to announce that its recommendations on the scale of necessary expansion were accepted by the Government , that funds were being made available to cover the next ten years , including £650,000,000 for capital expenditure on building by universities . |
| 26 | and I reckon he broke them but he says he 's no broken but I I I felt the tooth in two side of my mouth so I just stopped the treatment there and I 'm going to another dentist some time but my wife , I do n't want to go there now cos money 's tight , I was on the D H S S , I was due to pay the first forty nine pound . |
| 27 | I have to admit it sounds a lot cosier if we 're due to spend the next few nights under the same roof . ’ |
| 28 | Although the woods look impressively exotic and expensive , it has not been necessary to pilfer the last few acres of an equatorial hardwood rainforest in order to achieve the attractive grain patterns on these basses , hence the ( ultimately ) rather reasonable prices . |
| 29 | Many , of course , are too young to remember the last Labour Government . |
| 30 | It is nice to follow the first Conservative Back-Bench Member who seems to have looked at the Bill without blinkers . |