Example sentences of "[noun prp] to the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rested on a grant of authority over the whole country by Gregory to the first archbishop , followed by a long history of the exercise of this authority from the seventh century onwards . |
| 2 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
| 3 | The hope for a language which would express the essence of things rather than being conventional noises perpetuating old-wives ' tales is an old one , going back beyond Lavoisier to the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | It is rather difficult accurately to describe the idiosyncratic monument by Maximilian Colt at St Peter 's , Edensor , in Derbyshire to the First Earl of Devonshire ( d.1625 ) and his brother , Henry Cavendish ( d.1616 ) — perhaps the closest parallel would be a marble armoire with dressing-table in front , the whole flanked by two fearsome martial figures . |
| 5 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 6 | New Beginnings : From Schleiermacher to the First World War |
| 7 | However , there are in reality few prominent cases of the direct transfer of production from the UK to the Third World . |
| 8 | EVERYBODY is invited this Saturday and Sunday to the seventh birthday celebrations of the Carpet Supermarket in Long Lane , Aintree . |
| 9 | So Tallis at last entered the stone corridors and galleries which had once led Harry to the first forest , and a forbidden land in whose winter embrace he had become lost . |
| 10 | Owen was , they declared : Did they , one wonders , ponder on the words ‘ illustrious disciple ’ as they dismissed Marx to the second rank of the misled and misleading who had got their economics so grossly wrong ? |
| 11 | He became increasingly concerned that the monarchical regime of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which committed Germany to the First World War , was over-dominated by military and bureaucratic interests at the expense of the national interest . |
| 12 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 13 | ‘ So what can I tell you ? ’ said Shorty to the umpteenth magazine interviewer who came to call , looking for the definitive analysis in the search for Jack Nicholson , once he had become a star . |
| 14 | In spite of William 's immediate miss that allowed Hudson his second escape , the West Indies still made up some ground when Kenneth Benjamin and Jimmy Adams acquired their first Test wickets just before tea through cut shots that were edged to Lara at first slip ; Peter Kirsten off Benjamin , a powerfully-built fast bowler with a method not unlike Colin Croft 's in the wide angle of delivery , and Hansie Cronje to the fourth ball from Adams , whose left-arm spin had been restricted to seven wicketless overs all season . |
| 15 | He gave a stimulating programme ranging from the crystal clear Partita No 1 of Bach , through Schubert and Schumann to the 20th century Berg and Prokofiev . |
| 16 | The hope is that the machine will beat Europe to the next prize in elementary particle physics . |
| 17 | ‘ Major Bagshot accompanied Bonzo to the 15th green where he found a ball and a complete set of Henry Cotton ‘ St Andrew 's ’ clubs lying , abandoned . |
| 18 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 19 | 8 Cadenza to the first movement of one of Mozart 's ‘ pastiche ’ keyboard concertos , K.40 . |
| 20 | Defeat would have officially sent Cowdenbeath to the Second Division but that inevitable fate has only been delayed . |
| 21 | NEXT loop is to set the loop variable to a value equal to the limit value and then GOTO to the NEXT statement . |