Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 2 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 3 | Lies applied by summons to set aside the fourth party notice served on them and succeeded in their application . |
| 4 | Sit with your feet and legs apart — do not over-extend the distance — it defeats the purpose of the exercise and you will find you wo n't be able to walk properly the next day ! |
| 5 | But remove them carefully with tissues , and use a non-alcoholic gentle freshener on cotton wool as a ‘ rinse ’ to wipe away the last traces . |
| 6 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 7 | Ballyclare restored their lead in the 55th minute when promising Adrian Moore broke clear on the right and crossed for James Beattie to tap home the second goal . |
| 8 | It was decided to include mainly the fourth year pupils that each school defined as being below average in attainment in mathematics , that is , the lowest 50 per cent of pupils rounded up to a complete set . |
| 9 | Once again , constraints on space make it necessary to address only the first stage of development , which occurs between the ages of 0 and about 18 months . |
| 10 | ‘ We are trying to trace everyone who was at the party to try to piece together the last hours of his life . ’ |
| 11 | So the inquiry is by no means cut and dried and they 're now trying to piece together the last hours of the dead woman 's life . |
| 12 | Using what they had discovered from their visit to Bourbourg and official sources , Helen and Brian Attwell were able to piece together the last moments of Beaufort I L4508 . |
| 13 | As long as I ensured that she was in peak physical condition , it was n't too difficult to get her to fly further the next time . |
| 14 | The result was we arrived in Hong Kong a day late , and quite late in the evening , and our journey to China proper was due to start early the next morning . |
| 15 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 16 | ENGLAND 'S number one , grandmaster Nigel Short from West Hampstead , is poised to score only the second victory of his career over former world champion Anatoly Karpov in their World Chess Championship semifinal match at Linares , Spain . |
| 17 | Almost all the ladies silently decided to go downtown the next morning and buy a copy of The Cheaper Sex . |
| 18 | ‘ We wo n't be in a hurry to get away the next time , will we ? |
| 19 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 20 | But you never managed to stay there the first day . |
| 21 | If , as I used to , one cracks walnuts by banging two of the things together , and keeps the uncracked winner to go forward the next round , will one inevitably finish Christmas with the hardest nut to crack in one 's hand ? |
| 22 | If the decision is made to stop then the first step is to advise your customer 's buyer of the situation promptly . |
| 23 | Though everyone was behind Sheehan as she strove to become only the thirteenth entrant to the Hall of Fame , it was difficult not to feel for Dawn Coe-Jones . |
| 24 | TIPPING Tim is favourite in all books to become only the second horse to land the Mackeson-A F Budge Cup double . |
| 25 | COLCHESTER 'S quest to become only the second club to complete the non-League double continues today , with a 6,000-plus crowd expected at Layer Road for the Vauxhall FA Trophy semi-final clash with Macclesfield . |
| 26 | He was one of several candidates vying to become only the 14th editor in the publication 's 128-year history . |
| 27 | BOXING : Australian Jeff Fenech is poised to become only the fourth boxer in history to win world championships in four different weight divisions . |
| 28 | Allow it to wash away the last traces of your old payoff or negative belief . |
| 29 | In the end it was left to Jose-Maria Canizares , the oldest man in either side , to secure the point which assured Europe of a tie , before the final four Americans on the course won their matches to produce just the second stalemate in a series stretching back to 1927 , and the first for 20 years . |
| 30 | ‘ My wife ( he used the different word ) is about to bring forth the thirteenth son . ’ |