Example sentences of "[adj] to the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secret diplomacy , bribery , the interception of correspondence — none of these was in any way peculiar to the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | The Soviets , as shown by declining equipment orders since 1976 , have themselves become more careful in weighing the balance , and have lost much of their earlier enthusiasm , as Brezhnev made clear to the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress of 1981 : |
| 3 | And watch Humberside , fresh to the First Division , who scored 134 goals in their eight Autumn Trophy games . |
| 4 | Well that 's going free to the first person to ring us on three double one , one double one with the answers to these three questions , listen carefully . |
| 5 | It starts as for Ziggerat , climbs direct to the first roof , pulls through this and continues up the steep wall to the next roof which is passed by very difficult bridging . |
| 6 | Climbing steep snow in a series of zigzags as in ( Fig. 2b ) , the axe is held in the uphill hand and the rope goes on the downhill side direct to the next person on the rope . |
| 7 | Triangulation is a chain of supplies of goods among three or more parties where the goods are delivered from the first party direct to the last party in the chain . |
| 8 | The opening instrumental to the first track Do n't Look Down reminds me of Les Paul and his legendary recording tricks . |
| 9 | Instead of moving forward into the twenty first century , the Tories are moving backward us backwards with working conditions that would be more suited to the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | The lyrical meditation proper to the second degree of love that he includes in Ego Dormio projects a lightness of spirit as it embodies rhetorically a sense of the joyful reality behind the story which is the goal of the contemplative . |
| 11 | Next row : Similar to the first decrease row ( see point 13 ) . |
| 12 | ( v ) Third reading This is similar to the second reading , except that details have now been settled in committee and on report and the House is concerned again with the question of the whole Bill as now amended . |
| 13 | Moreover , ASFV and vaccinia virus RNA polymerases might have a slightly different subunit composition , because ASFV encodes a protein similar to the sixth subunit of yeast RNA polymerase II ( RPB6 ; J.M.Rodríguez , R.J.Y. , J.F.Rodríguez and E.V. , unpublished ) , while no similar protein is encoded in the genome of vaccinia virus . |
| 14 | Another type of within-turn switch is similar to the last type except that the switch to London English and back occurs wholly within the turn of one speaker : they are thus " self-interruptions " ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 15 | This consequence is central to the next section . |
| 16 | My eyes were on the far side of the valley where the track was clear and unbroken to the next turn above the main gorge . |
| 17 | When a payment is required to be made to a third party ( trader , government , etc. ) the bank depositor draws , i.e. writes , a cheque on his bank payable to the third party . |
| 18 | But despite being subject to the second wave of pan-European reform in psychiatry since the 1940s , France has not moved away from the asylums with any speed . |
| 19 | It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) . |
| 20 | Thank you for sending me further information on your ideas that could give Blaenau Ffestiniog 's market hall a new lease of life appropriate to the Twenty-First Century . |
| 21 | Officialdom does care , and is having some success in ensuring that a better informed management cares and will shoulder its responsibilities in ways appropriate to the 21st century . |
| 22 | Type C may have been present throughout — from the early to the late-fourth century — as elements in a number of contrasting designs ( e.g. pI . |
| 23 | It was the most wonderful sight I have ever seen , wild and barbaric to the last degree and the whole thing so wonderfully staged and orderly . |
| 24 | That is that industrialised agriculture in its current form is neither sustainable nor exportable to the Third World . |
| 25 | perfect to the nth degree of difficulty . |
| 26 | The history of this mill previous to the seventeenth century is unknown . |
| 27 | The pernicious notion that we can believe whatever we feel like believing may not be unique to the twentieth century but it has certainly found great popularity in it . |
| 28 | I think these concepts will come to seem as natural to the next generation as the idea that the world is round . |
| 29 | Natural to the last drop . |
| 30 | We will assign any node j for which or is basic to the first generation and say that the parent of j is 1 , writing P(j) = 1 . |