Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us note , too , that coming as Marx did to English economics after he had studied Hegel 's philosophy of history , he could come with a mind predisposed to fit the first into a grand dialectical scheme such as the second propounded . |
| 2 | When a priest arrived to administer the last rites , Mansell sent him away . |
| 3 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 4 | Oracle Corp plans to release the first benchmarks run on its parallel server technology within the next few weeks . |
| 5 | The Council agreed to postpone the next full visit from the summer of 1979 until later in the year , and to release a press statement that had been agreed by the visiting party with the Polytechnic and the Teesside Education Authority . |
| 6 | But in 1935 the Legislature decided to take the second and more straightforward course . |
| 7 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |
| 8 | Do n't you remember the canteen lady leaving to get the last tram ? ’ |
| 9 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 10 | Liberal attempts to find a middle way between radical demands for outright confiscation of noble land and conservative rejection of land reform failed to save the Second Duma . |
| 11 | There are other reasons why capitalism needs to exploit the Third World , according to Lenin . |
| 12 | Western drug enforcement agents are trying to persuade the Bhutto government to enter , but such a move threatens to spill the first blood of Benazir 's fledgling democracy . |
| 13 | Armed envoys of Life President Dr Hastings Banda had apprehended Chakufwa Chihana , the British-educated trade union leader mandated to sow the first seeds of a Malawi spring , and the Catholic church , a powerful ally , had fallen silent . |
| 14 | Although with treatment they made gains in growth at least comparable with other patients , 59% ( 10 of 17 ) followed up to maturity failed to reach the third centile for adult height . |
| 15 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 16 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim , except in respect of claims for deposits only where the Insured Person has to bear the first £10 of each and every claim . |
| 17 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 18 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 19 | The Insured Person has to bear the first £25 of each and every claim . |
| 20 | The principles and example of the Revolution helped to inspire the first successful slave revolt in the Caribbean in Haiti , as well as the political independence movements of South America . |
| 21 | Cockfield Fell managed to escape the 18th Century Enclosure Acts and remains a valuable area of common land . |
| 22 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 23 | This year politics and economics conspired to make the first almost impossible . |
| 24 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 25 | A CONSIDERABLE future opened up for Gary Mason here last night when he knocked out Tyrell Biggs as the bell rang to end the seventh round . |
| 26 | But he withstood some solid blows and finally saw off Biggs with a right to the temple as the bell sounded to end the seventh round . |
| 27 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 28 | Of these societies ( outside those areas of disseminated settlement where the parish tended to become the first unit beyond the family and that of those neighbouring farmers who helped each other out at harvest and ploughing ) the most significant was the pueblo . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The government is this lunchtime expected to announce the third wave of Scottish hospitals to be given self governing status . |