Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told a Labour Co-ordinating Committee rally that it was not enough for Labour to win the next election . |
| 2 | The only way to remove the Government was for Labour to win the next general election . |
| 3 | In particular , will your erstwhile political columnist , R W Johnson , apologise for the appalling piece of sexism that appeared in NSS ( under a previous editor ) on 7 December 1990 , when he suggested that the only way for Labour to win the next election would be for Glenys Kinnock to ‘ have a word ’ with Neil and persuade him to stand down ? |
| 4 | The budget for 1991 allocates the first tranche of the ¥455 trillion ( $3.4 trillion ) that the government has agreed to spend on roads , railways , airports , housing , drains and other public works over the coming decade . |
| 5 | The summer vacation of 1993 sees the first 10 Enterprise Studentships being awarded . |
| 6 | You should of all saw the last Synod papers received this . |
| 7 | As you can imagine there were a lot of champagne bottles opened that night , but perhaps the most pleasurable glass of all came the next morning from the bottle in Peter Wycherley 's office at the headquarters of Dunlop Slazenger who are my main sponsors . |
| 8 | The presidential election of 1952 saw the first large-scale hiring of skilled advertising men to do the politicians ' persuading for them . |
| 9 | Twelve hundred words a week , week in , week out , at a rate something in excess of £1 per word — well , not too bad a life , actually , would be the most likely response of those facing the 14th , 15th , 16th … years of Conservative rule in rather more straitened circumstances — if , of course , they were to read his column . |
| 10 | Hendry made a break of 54 to take the first frame , but lost the next to a run of 50 . |
| 11 | He will forsake china production schedules for fine tuning the first of many travel itineraries planned for ‘ my new career of retirement ’ , as he put it . |
| 12 | For those surviving the first year of life , however , the chances were improving ; death-rate fell from 23 per 1,000 ( living ) in 1841 to 18 per 1,000 in 1901 . |
| 13 | The first and only veterinary surgeon appointed to the army in 1796 joined the 11th Light Dragoons on 25 June that year as a warrant officer , but was commissioned the following year . |
| 14 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 15 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 16 | He turned down offers of partnership with the Peels and Arkwrights , and in 1790 erected the first steam-powered mill in Stockport , during a boom period . |
| 17 | From this follows the first point : the existence of illegal concert parties is enormously hard to prove . |
| 18 | In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years . |
| 19 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 20 | He was Assistant Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC between 1949 and 1956 , and in 1963 became the first Executive Director of the World Association for Christian Broadcasting ( WACB ) , WACC 's predecessor . |
| 21 | HM The Queen visited the site in 1979 to inaugurate the first evaporator . |
| 22 | This will culminate in a celebration in 1991 to mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the war in the Pacific . |
| 23 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 24 | The Pecora hearings in the US Congress in 1933–34 produced the first real condemnation of insider dealing . |
| 25 | Following a resolution taken at a conference of the Council of Museums , celebrations will take place in 1995 marking the 2,500th anniversary of one of the oldest Eastern cities in the world , Bukhara in Uzbekistan . |
| 26 | In 1904 came the first car , and in 1920 Rover hit the headlines when its Light Six saloon raced the Blue Train Continental Express 750 miles across France — and reached Calais 20 minutes ahead of the train . |
| 27 | Turkish fortunes began to decline after the raising of the second siege of Vienna ( 1683 ) , and the Treaty of Karlovci ( Carlowitz ) in 1699 recorded the first major Ottoman defeat and the beginning of the slow retreat of the Turks from Europe . |
| 28 | Campbell was totally influenced by the great Italian architect Palladio and in 1715 published the first volume of Vitruvius Britannicus . |
| 29 | Three unsuccessful bills against occasional conformity were introduced during the early years of Anne 's reign , culminating in the famous attempt in 1704 to tack the third bill on to a Land Tax Bill . |
| 30 | Arthur Eddy , an American critic who in 1914 produced the first book in English on Cubism , Cubists and Post-Impressionism , wrote that ‘ the comparison that Picabia is fondest of making is that of absolute music ’ . |