Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [noun sg] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated that these various small-scale erosional processes require tens of Ma to overturn a few millimetres of dust . |
| 2 | Indeed , when an intergovernmental conference was finally convened in 1985 in order to negotiate a European Union treaty , some member states clearly had severe reservations . |
| 3 | He also claimed that staff aides to the then Vice-President Bush had intervened with HUD in 1985 in order to win a $500,000 grant for a Kansas City developer , Hector Barreto , a longtime supporter of Bush . |
| 4 | There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism . |
| 5 | Even after the failure of the rebellion its position was secure enough by 1690 for Charnock to establish a trading station fairly far up the River Hughli , on the southern edge of the Bengal cotton-weaving district , and over the next hundred years Calcutta grew to be the effective capital of India and the second city in the British Empire . |
| 6 | This frontier was fixed in 1920 in order to form a distinct territory of Northern Ireland which contains all the areas where quite large numbers of Irish Protestants live alongside the Irish Catholics . |
| 7 | The Economic League , formed in the winter of 1919 to 1920 in order to lead a counter-attack by British capitalism against the rise of a mass labour movement , also added greatly to the difficulties of the General Council . |
| 8 | Like the horn and trumpet it is furnished with valves , but has four of these instead of three in order to give a complete chromatic scale from its fundamental note . |
| 9 | The group had changed its name to the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Movement ( MPMR ) on May 31 in order to facilitate a transition to mainstream politics . |
| 10 | The first effect suggests instrumenting to avoid any bias in the coefficient arising from colinearity with revaluations , whilst the second leads to IV in order to bypass a measurement error problem . |
| 11 | Commando units from Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) launched raids on the Solomon Islands on March 12 and March 17 in order to destroy a fuel storage depot . |
| 12 | At Derby on 18 November , the Guild did so by 21 votes to 11 in order to prevent a split . |
| 13 | His basic earthiness means that this will be his last season for the Harlequins , the club he joined from Blackheath in 1986 in order to have a tilt at international honours . |
| 14 | It was postponed when the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam presented its ‘ Kunst voor den beelderstorm ’ exhibition in 1986 in order to avoid a conflict of art- historical effort , but remained a long-term project for Ekkehard Mai , deputy director of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and curator of Dutch and Flemish painting . |
| 15 | But it will not be under s 11 , TMA 1970 for failure to make a return , but under s 96 for submission of an incorrect return . |
| 16 | GARRY HARVEY played 24 holes in one under par to take a surprise halfway lead over fellow Scot Bill Longmuir in the Rome Masters at Castelgandolfo yesterday . |
| 17 | In order to make this analysis meaningful we have used the findings reported in Chapter Four in order to make a prediction about whether or not clients would have been at home had they not been supported by the Home Support Project . |
| 18 | When he resigned from Stowe in 1936 in order to become a full-time writer , White spent some months in a cottage near the school experimenting with falconry , later describing the episode in his most successful book , The Goshawk ( 1951 ) . |
| 19 | A currency reform , reducing the units of the peso by 1,000 in order to create a new peso equivalent to 1,000 old pesos , was introduced by the Mexican authorities at midnight on Dec. 31 ; the measure , originally announced in June , was designed to help accounting by reducing the high figures used in daily financial transactions . |