Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Beckett and Trevor Foulds have recently used a computer to analyse the 1851 and 1861 census returns for the Nottinghamshire open field village of Laxton . |
| 2 | There were problems aired , including the fact that nurses after training are not employed due to the cutbacks and are not allowed as a result to get the six months experience needed to get another job . |
| 3 | " Certainly it would be a tragedy to see the two most powerful nations on earth destroying each other in such a way , " he agreed , " and let us pray that such a day never comes . " |
| 4 | He 'd had another sleepless night and ahead lay customs , who could n't be expected to be exactly pro-British , and because of post and telephone strikes in Argentina , he had n't been able to confirm the flight with Alejandro , so they 'd have to go through the hassle of hiring a car to drive the 330 kilometres out to his estancia . |
| 5 | ‘ We have not made a bid to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup . |
| 6 | The small jet battled against a strong headwind and took nearly an hour and a half to cover the four hundred nautical miles from the Polish border to the Gagarin radio beacon . |
| 7 | In 1894 the Ladies ' National Association , veterans of the repeal movement , mounted a campaign to amend the 1885 act to criminalize incest . |
| 8 | When whaling was stopped in the Azores he created a museum to display the thousand of pieces he had collected since a boy . |
| 9 | President Mitterrand of France ( and he 's not alone in this ) has been anxious that too swift a move to reunify the two Germanys could destabilise Gorbachev , something that could spell disaster not only for the West but for the balance of world power . |
| 10 | The glen was an obvious subject for a canal that would obviate the necessity for small vessels to make the long and hazardous voyage around Cape Wrath and the northern coast , and in 1803 Thomas Telford was commissioned to construct a waterway to link the three lochs and connect with Loch Linnhe and the Moray Firth , thus giving a continuous water surface from the Atlantic to the North Sea . |
| 11 | They 've sent me flowers and choclates , and they 've expressed a desire to accommodate the two young men who 've done this at their own institutions |
| 12 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 13 | The Prince of Wales signed a petition this week on the back of a menu to keep the Three Graces , by the 19th century Italian sculptor Antonia Canova , in Britain . |
| 14 | Furthermore , did he give a commitment to replace the 8 per cent . |
| 15 | ‘ You are to devise a means to destroy the eight twelves , ’ said Fakrid . |
| 16 | They ran to man the edge of the dell , forming a perimeter to protect the Number-One . |
| 17 | About 150 former squadron members attended the official banquet ( I had earlier been asked to propose the Toast the the Squadron ) , there was a Squadron Parade , the dedication of a cairn to mark the 50 years and a flypast of present day aircraft . |
| 18 | Desmond Clarke would no doubt have summoned up a helicopter to take the two naked ladies on a nationwide author tour and had them descending on bookshops by parachute . |
| 19 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 20 | At no time could the department justify why they had not allowed a rabbi to visit the two Jewish children in the mainland foster homes , or permitted Quakers to visit the two Quaker children , Can all these refusals really have been in the best interests of the children ? |
| 21 | The social workers say they have a duty to prepare the seventeen year old for independent life as an adult . |
| 22 | There has been a fair amount of half-hearted canvassing by Wales to try to persuade members of other unions that South Africa is not really stable enough as a country to host the 1995 World Cup . |
| 23 | Working on a project sponsored by ICI , Holliday and Supple designed a way to treat the 300000 t pa of waste acid generated from methyl methacrylate processing . |
| 24 | A way to combine the two goals , safety and riches , eluded me . |
| 25 | Bob Tway chipped-in out of a bunker to steal the 1986 US PGA Championship from Norman ; Larry Mize repeated the chipping in feat , this time from off the fairway , a year later in the US Masters . |
| 26 | It is important to understand that this ‘ code-switching ’ behaviour does not indicate an inability to keep the two varieties apart , but is used for stylistic effect , and is part of the complex linguistic repertoire of many bilingual communities all over the world . |
| 27 | Along with the rest of the property sector , British Land 's shares have been trading at a considerable discount to its assets per share , and yesterday 's move is an attempt to close the 40 per cent gap which built up as institutions took a dimmer view of the market . |
| 28 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 29 | One recent solution to this apparent illogicality was an attempt to reorder the two key events , so that the removal of York from sanctuary preceded the execution of Hastings . |
| 30 | Colonel Henry Wilson negotiated with Mosley in an attempt to merge the two organizations . |