Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its tirades against the ‘ unnatural alliance ’ between capitalism and Bolshevism , it appealed to the last remaining hope — the belief in the miracle of a split between the eastern and western allies and a new alliance between the Reich and the West against Bolshevism . |
| 2 | When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics . |
| 3 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | It was in 1851 that the Great Northern Railway established its locomotive works in Doncaster , and twelve years later the amalgamation of a number of railway companies led to the first regional monopoly , the North Eastern Railway , this business being engineered mainly by George Hudson , the ‘ Railway King ’ . |
| 5 | The impact of the oil crisis and its associated inflation led to the first actual decline in income for OECD countries for over a quarter of a century . |
| 6 | The talks which led to the first Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement ( SALT I ) were confined to the Russians and Americans . |
| 7 | An idea of the complexity of this process can be gauged from the events which led to the first successful casting of iron cannon in Sussex , at Buxted in 1543 . |
| 8 | Her enterprise " led to the first Deaf Choir Festival which was held in St. Barnabas Church , Oxford , in 1976 . |
| 9 | It has reached that level in half a century , for 50 years ago today the experiment was begun which led to the first recorded observation of this polymer . |
| 10 | This ambiguous situation led to the first English clash with Spain . |
| 11 | A quarrel between Corcyra , a daughter-city of Corinth , and Epidamnos , a daughter-city of Corcyra herself , led to the first open clash , the battle of Sybota , between Athenian and Peloponnesian League ships ( 433 ) : Epidamnos had appealed over the head of Corcyra to the ‘ grandmother ’ Corinth , while Corcyra asked for , and got , help from Athens . |
| 12 | Appointed principal of the Calcutta School of Art and keeper of the Government Art Gallery in 1896 , a post he held until 1906 , he was responsible for momentous changes in the art-school curriculum which led to the first Indian nationalist art movement , the Bengal School of Painting , under the artist Abanindranath Tagore . |
| 13 | It was not the Jerusalem leaders who agreed to the first widespread dissemination of the Word . |
| 14 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 15 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 16 | Steve Edgley and Lee James went to the 18th all square with Mark Saunders and David Hares and it looked as if Gloucester 's tee shot was out of bounds — until the ball hit a tree and stayed in play . |
| 17 | I went to the third National Conference of Self-Help Groups . |
| 18 | The task fell to the 11th Bavarian Division , a unit that had recently distinguished itself under von Mackensen in the Serbian and Galician campaigns . |
| 19 | From local origins — Station KDKA in Pittsburgh — the transmission of radio broadcasts grew to the first national network , the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) of 1926 , closely followed by the Columbia Broadcasting Company ( CBC ) in 1927 . |
| 20 | When the Civil Service proceeded to the first comprehensive retirement programme in the 1850s , the justification for imposing the cowardly administrative convenience of an age barrier was how invidious it would have been to attempt any form of assessment . |
| 21 | The answers Wheatley gave to the first two questions were in favour of retaining the larger unit , but in both cases the government reversed this recommendation in the final legislation . |
| 22 | The Baxters romped to the last four 7 & 6 and meet the Sykes in today 's semi-finals . |