Example sentences of "of [noun] [to-vb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a thrilling final-set victory , the 43-year-old architect said : ‘ I had a bit of luck to win the third set and after Ian took the fourth I thought I would lose . ’ |
| 2 | And , to the best of our knowledge , that is still valid though er of course to answer the second part of your question , are they fully locked in . |
| 3 | He was among 100 prisoners granted a remission of sentence to mark the 10th anniversary of Kolingba 's taking office . |
| 4 | The efforts of pacifists to prevent the Second World War have won them few friends . |
| 5 | Initialisation involves a change of handshape to represent the first letter of the English translation of the sign ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 6 | Gold EIA went ahead to commission the Centre for Environmental Management and Planning at the University of Aberdeen to undertake the first phase of the EIA , its scoping . |
| 7 | Throughout 1971 and 1972 he remained in Britain 's top three heavyweights , but was overlooked when the BBBC ordered a series of eliminators to decide the next British title challenger . |
| 8 | I admired what he was doing with his life from afar and I put the museum on my list of places to experience the next time I was in the Miami area . |
| 9 | Music treat : The trustees of Sir William Turner 's Hospital at Kirkleatham , near Redcar , have organised a short season of concerts to mark the 300th anniversary of the local knight starting tomorrow at 2pm with a performance by Marske Band . |
| 10 | Amnesty International 's series of concerts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights is a remarkable achievement . |
| 11 | Tonights performance is part of a nationwide series of concerts to celebrate the 250th anninversary of the first British performance . |
| 12 | In icy American logging camps it was common for the cook to detonate small amounts of dynamite to cook the first meal of the day , which brought a whole new meaning to bangers for breakfast . |
| 13 | This year sees the centenary of Peter Rabbit and since Wedgwood already dominates this characterware market segment the company has added a special range of items to celebrate the first appearance of Beatrix Potter 's famous character . |
| 14 | The 46-year-old Arkansas Governor stormed to a series of victories to become the first Democrat in the White House since the departure of Jimmy Carter in 1980 . |
| 15 | It would obviously be the worst of craftsmanship to score the first four bars as they stand for the violins and viola and at the fifth bar to weaken one of the parts by division . |
| 16 | On June 24 , thousands of Moldavians and Romanians converged at a bridge on the Prut river , on the frontier between Soviet Moldavia and Romania , for a ceremonial linking of hands to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bessarabia 's seizure by the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | ( 6 ) In August 1983 the third defendant claimed from C.M.C. a commission of £16,000 for himself and £8,000 for Highdene in respect of certain commercial arrangements , not involving the bakery , negotiated between C.M.C. and B.M.T. It is said that this claim led the other directors of C.M.C. to investigate the third defendant 's activities and to dismiss him as a director of C.M.C. ( 7 ) Between May and July 1983 the third defendant caused the first plaintiff to sign in blank some cheques drawn on C.M.C. 's bank account by fraudulently representing that these cheques would be used to pay small and urgent bills of C.M.C. It is said that in fact the third defendant used six of these cheques to pay to himself and certain other parties sums amounting to about £30,000 , allegedly in connection with the financing of the centre . |
| 18 | We drove until we reached St Michael where we paid a hefty toll of £30 to use the next stretch of road . |
| 19 | Malik made Lewis look fairly ordinary , and it took the return of Mallender to remove the seventh wicket , just on the stroke of lunch . |
| 20 | A SERVICE OF OBSERVANCE TO MARK THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UN CONVENTION RELATING TO THE STATUS OF REFUGEES |
| 21 | The model is meant to describe what operations the speaker performs upon each level of representation to generate the next level . |