Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 2 | A few weeks later he was transferred to Newcastle United for a fee of £90,000 , becoming the first player to be signed up by soccer legend Keegan as new manager of the First Division club . |
| 3 | A female deacon has made history by becoming the first woman to be put in charge of a parish in the Gloucester Diocese . |
| 4 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 5 | he was a ‘ principal doer ’ in promoting the first voyage to Muscovy of 1553 , a founder and active member of the Russia Company , and a promoter of voyages to West Africa in 1553 and 1554 . |
| 6 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 7 | But Gilliland found that the real temperature record could be matched much more closely by adding a third factor to the calculations : varying solar heat output tied to the 76-year cycle of variations in solar size ( Climatic Change , vol 4 , p I 1 1 ) . |
| 8 | We rule out this second way in which a true belief may be too luckily true to count as knowledge by adding a fourth clause to the initial three : |
| 9 | The Royal Shakespeare Company is paying a first visit to Durham City but not to tread the boards . |
| 10 | All of the single seat 262s will have the option of a ‘ quick change ’ rear fuselage decking , allowing a second seat to be used for pilot conversion . |
| 11 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |
| 12 | The control unit contains a special storage device or register , the program counter , which contains the address of the store location holding the next instruction to be executed or obeyed . |
| 13 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 14 | I were flying the next day to Benidorm I 've had trouble all the time with me back |
| 15 | I 'm saying the next appointment to be made is all by , a complaint examiner , what I should n't have thought we wanted to do at the moment more than one . |
| 16 | Studying the past by reigns is certainly artificial , and risks obscuring in this case , for instance , the intimate links between the various parts of the Carolingian world , and the profound continuities linking the mid-ninth century to the immediately preceding and succeeding periods . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're smoking my next six weeks ’ dole money , ’ I said , handing the second joint to Melanie . |
| 18 | Weaver had practised his right-hand script before scrawling the first note to Jack Stone . |
| 19 | Mute 's stance follows the news that music industry magazine Music Week is taking the first step to redefining the term ‘ independent ’ by running ‘ a genre chart open to all-comers ’ , next to ‘ an old-style distribution chart ’ , from September 19 . |
| 20 | If you go north from Porta Venezia , taking Corso Buenos Aires to reach Via Palazzi , and taking the third turning to the left , you can view what remains of the Lazzaretto , the church of San Carlo — of no great merit despite being the work of Il Pellegrini — and a section of the portico that forms part of the northern section of the school at No.12 Via Tadino , the first road crossed by Via Palazzi . |
| 21 | He begins to doubt himself , lowering his self-confidence and self-esteem and making the next approach to a girl more difficult . |
| 22 | Knowing my partner 's dislike of traverses I laced it with gear — but inserted that final , final nut before making the last heave to safety . |
| 23 | Pickering Methodist Church member Peter Robinson is making a second visit to Albania in May taking 200 mattresses and clothing collected in the Ryedale area . |
| 24 | Instead of transferring the 4th stitch to the 5th needle on each side of centre 0 , let it run down each time before crossing the cable . |
| 25 | As shown in Figure 2.13 , these range from trivial ones such as merely copying the first operand to the more useful ones discussed above . |
| 26 | If public DC access is granted , by setting the 3rd parameter to TRUE , all users will be able to view all DCs as if they were an interested party . |
| 27 | ‘ The more the merrier , ’ she smiled back , hugging the seventh guest to her . |
| 28 | We therefore choose , say , the first of these columns and without reducing the last element to unity , calculate the next two columns : unc We choose , say , the first and last elements of these and solve unc The common root 12.5 also satisfies the middle two quadratics ; hence we find 1 = 12.5 . |
| 29 | THE NATIONAL Railway Museum is offering a last chance to visitors to see the locomotive Green Arrow ‘ in steam ’ before her certificate expires . |
| 30 | Following a last salute to all old friends and listeners everywhere , we finished with that popular cowboy dirge , ‘ I 'm Headin' for the Last Round-Up ! ’ |