Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quicksilver , darting and with wonderful balance and control , Vince was seen at his best at Selhurst Park in Palace 's progress to the 2nd Division Championship in 1978–79 . |
| 2 | However , if Bates can conjure up a repeat of last year 's progress to the fourth round , he is unlikely to go any further with second seed and twice former champion Stefan Edberg blocking his path . |
| 3 | To begin with , Archie featured at inside forward and was easily the leading scorer in our first season , with 20 goals in the Southern League 2nd Division fixtures , and as such was a primary reason for Palace 's elevation to the 1st Division for 1906–07 . |
| 4 | Imagine a world in which people move from one prisoner 's dilemma to the next ( ie , the real world ) . |
| 5 | Noting further that unc and applying Gauss 's theorem to the first term in the bracket we get |
| 6 | A black girl with an Afro haircut then asked what was Grunte 's attitude to the Third World . |
| 7 | As the order 's reference to the 27th levy period suggests , the motion is not a great parliamentary novelty . |
| 8 | The novel insisted on reverting to the ampler great-sinner pattern ; hence Stavrogin 's emergence as ‘ chief character ’ , ‘ tragic villain ’ and so forth during this period , and Peter Verkhovensky 's withdrawal to the second rank : Verkhovensky the mere wrecker , the nihilist , the man of the 1860s , the deeper realist 's answer to Turgenev . |
| 9 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 10 | The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable . |
| 11 | Ethel Scrimgeour , ‘ a tall and handsome maiden lady given to piety and good works , whose appearance was made remarkable by an immense knot of hair twisted on the nape of her neck in the mid-Victorian way , ’ remained Joyce 's friend to the last . |
| 12 | Eastern Europe 's opening to the Third World ( along with the influence of Cuba and Vietnam ) add credence to the view that diplomatic solutions to international difficulties can have no validity without taking into account the interests of the socialist camp . |
| 13 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 14 | Southend United 's promotion to the First Division with me as mascot — getting fab reviews and a signed football |
| 15 | This occurred at an end-of-season game where a large crowd was gathered to celebrate the team 's promotion to the second division . |
| 16 | Gorbachev 's address to the 27th Party Congress in February 1986 was relatively short of surprises in terms of foreign policy ; there was nothing , at any rate , to compare with the unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing that had been announced just a few weeks earlier . |
| 17 | All have indicated willingness to leave following Forest 's relegation to the First Division at the subsequent retirement of manager Brian Clough . |
| 18 | When Robson was appointed England manager in 1982 he was succeeded at Portman Road by Ferguson , whose four years in charge ended with the club 's relegation to the Second Division . |
| 19 | The issues under this sub-paragraph turn on the Court of Justice 's answer to the first question in the Kalfelis case [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 5565 , 5569 , which was : |
| 20 | I think Wittgenstein 's answer to the last two questions would be ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 21 | Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy . |
| 22 | Gorbachev 's report to the 27th CPSU Congress in 1986 was the first in modern times to make no reference to the need to assist ‘ national liberation ’ movements in the developing countries ; rather , the Soviet leader appeared to favour a ‘ comprehensive system of international security ’ involving ‘ the use for the welfare of the world community , above all of the developing countries , of part of the funds that [ would ] be released as a result of the reduction in military budgets ’ . |
| 23 | The Urvills ' own history , too , made her feel like something unimportant on the family tree , for all that Fergus talked of responsibility and duty and one 's debt to the next generation . |
| 24 | A remarkable Marxist interpretation , for example , was made of Florentine painting from Giotto 's time to the fifteenth century , by Frederick Antal in the 1940s . |
| 25 | Since April , when the National Gallery of Art 's former director J. Carter Brown announced his retirement , America 's top museum professionals have engaged in a game of musical chairs , jumping from one search committee 's table to the next . |
| 26 | In an Author 's Note to the second book about this strange being , Ayesha , he wrote : |
| 27 | In an Author 's Note to the first book , Master and Commander , Patrick O'Brian assures us that ‘ … very often the improbable reality outruns fiction ’ and offers enough information about his sources ( in log-books , diaries and other contemporary records ) to confirm the authenticity of the events through which he displays his characters . |
| 28 | So that you can try them yourself , Elizabeth Arden is giving away a week 's supply to the first 750 readers whose names are picked on 28 February . |
| 29 | As part of the drive to restore party unity Jiang Zemin 's speech to the fifth plenum , released on Nov. 21 , urged party members to " urgently " go back to studying Marxism-Leninism and to build the party 's " fighting power " to " combat strength " [ see p. 37040 ] . |
| 30 | After the crisis in the Communist Party following Khrushchev 's speech to the Twentieth Party Congress , CPGB was in turmoil . |