Example sentences of "[vb infin] the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 2 | It should give the country the capability to design and build the next generation of Australian communications satellites as well as to win lucrative overseas contracts . |
| 3 | In putting this case we should first recollect the third pillar in Dicey 's concept of the rule of law . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second . |
| 5 | I shall first answer the second part of the hon. Gentleman 's question . |
| 6 | Er , I 'll answer the second part of the , the question . |
| 7 | Asians were products of a culture emphasizing the value of education as a means of social advancement and , because of the tight control they were able to exert over their children , could imbue the second generation with similar values . |
| 8 | Readability will remain the first principle of Cobol , no matter what paradigm fashion dictates it must embrace . |
| 9 | Having a resistivity of some 10MΩ and a permittivity of 3 , it would remain the first choice of insulation for undersea cables until development of para gutta , composed of wax and deproteinised rubber . |
| 10 | Information sessions will cover the first year of the pilot and one college 's experience of offering the additional assessment . |
| 11 | ( The cor anglais , if any , would double the 1st horn in unison . |
| 12 | Hodkinson will make the first inroads into his fortune by taking a holiday with his wife to Las Vegas to watch the Lennox Lewis-Tony Tucker WBC heavyweight championship fight on May 8 . |
| 13 | WELSHMAN Robbie Regan will make the first defence of his European flyweight crown against Hitchin 's Danny Porter at the National Ice Rink , Cardiff on January 19 . |
| 14 | CARDIFF 'S Steve Robinson will make the first defence of his WBO World featherweight title at the city 's national ice rink on July 10 against British title holder Shaun Murphy , of St Albans . |
| 15 | If they decide that you should , then you will be given a date for the start of the Service , and the Scheme 's driver will make the first visit to you , bringing a new supply of fresh sheets at a convenient time . |
| 16 | But first , Hodkinson must make the third defence of his WBC title against Puerto Rico 's Ricardo Cepeda in London on either January 23 or February 3 . |
| 17 | Intergraph Inc will preview Microstation , its flagship CAD/CAM software , running under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT — and will also show its new plug-in-and-go system , the PC 466 , a 66MHz Intel Corp 80486 box , which comes with 32Mb RAM , 426Mb disk , TCP/IP and graphics accelerator ; out now , it comes with a 17″ or 19″ colour monitor ; Microstation for NT will ship the second half of the year . |
| 18 | Microstation for NT will ship the second half of the year , it says . |
| 19 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 20 | Some commentators see The Stock Exchange 's rejection of the option to relaunch and reposition the second market as a mistake , as it deprives new growth companies of a low cost source of equity capital . |
| 21 | Where appropriate MAS will prepare the first draft of the heads on behalf of the purchaser . |
| 22 | do n't want the first wee of the mor |
| 23 | Do you want the last link in , link in the chain ? |
| 24 | It had happened before , she must just plot the next square like painting by numbers . |
| 25 | That was about the , I would think the fourth shop from er , sommat like that . |
| 26 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't know the first thing about the business , woman . ’ |
| 28 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 29 | I 've been so hoping you would soon be ready to join Brownies , but how can I pass over to a Brownie Guider a girl who wo n't lend a hand without being given something first and who does n't know the first thing about being obedient ? ’ |
| 30 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |