Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , and at Mudford , the peasants decided in the sixteenth century to enclose the open fields and reallocate land , but there is no dramatic single or well-documented event to explain the picture we can see in the landscape today . |
| 2 | The first requires the subsidence of a whole series of oceanic islands : the second attempts to use the fluctuating sea levels of the Pleistocene , which are well evidenced by all sorts of phenomena , as the explanation of the features of coral reefs . |
| 3 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 4 | An agreement to do so was signed in February 1950 , just over a month after the breakdown of the second attempt to replace the 1943 Quebec Agreement . |
| 5 | If not taken , it would pose a grievous threat to the Germans ' right when they made — as Falkenhayn planned — a second attempt to outflank the Allied left . |
| 6 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . |
| 9 | Wallace got another in the second half to make the final score 2–0 , bring the car in future boys . |
| 10 | The German 20th Corps was still slowly withdrawing in face of the Russian centre on 26 August , when , to prevent further retreat , Ludendorff ordered Francois 's 1st Corps to smash the Russian left wing . |
| 11 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 12 | ENGLAND have a second chance to reach the European men 's basketball championship in Germany . |
| 13 | On 15 November , the second exhibition to occupy the modernized Exhibition Hall was opened by Sir Steven Runciman . |
| 14 | The former title-holder , Jansher Khan , also from Pakistan , plays Bryan Beeson , who became the second Briton to reach the last eight by overcoming Jason Nicolle , 15-7 , 15-13 , 15-6 in a tussle of English giant-killers . |
| 15 | General de Castelnau , Joffre 's right-hand man and chief of staff , extracted from him permission to move General Henri Pètain 's Second Army to join the Third at Verdun , with Petain in command of the entire sector 's defence . |
| 16 | In another series of cases the Court has condemned national laws which require undertakings which are licensed to carry out particular activities in one member state having to obtain a second licence to provide the same services in another member state where the licensing requirements in the first member state adequately safeguard all necessary requirements for the protection of the public interest . |
| 17 | It is this that bears on my father 's second question-how to contain the uncontainable : producing these extremes and then controlling and containing them are the problems . |
| 18 | But he almost always gave the defendant a second chance , and sent him a second summons to appear the following week . |
| 19 | BR local officials attended and the first meeting of the association group was scheduled for Saturday 30th May to get the whole thing properly under way . |
| 20 | With due ceremony the Mayor and his entourage rode from London on 4th May to greet the new King , who was coming from Ludlow . |
| 21 | It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force . |
| 22 | We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up . |
| 23 | He has a sixth sense to recognise the genuine from the phoney . |
| 24 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
| 25 | Visitors will have their first opportunity to experience the new system when the castle opens on 3 April . |
| 26 | THE first case to reach the High Court of a child seeking to ‘ divorce ’ her parents began today behind closed doors . |
| 27 | Johannes Hevelius , a prosperous brewer of Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , made the first attempts to name the lunar features on his map of 1647 . |
| 28 | One of the first attempts to explain the mechanical behaviour of materials such as pitch and tar was made by James Clark Maxwell . |
| 29 | The first attempts to explain the crystalline structure of a polymer sample produced a model called the fringe-micelle structure . |
| 30 | The first attempts to understand the quantised Hall effect were in terms of this ideal model . |