Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only one but both his elder sons did so , and thereby became the first Jewish officers to be commissioned . |
| 2 | Carol Moseley Braun won in Illinois and thereby became the first black woman , and only the second black person , to serve in the Senate . |
| 3 | After moving to Willesden in north-west London he became the scourge of local boxers and eventually became the first black man to hold a British title when , in 1907 , he beat Curly Watson in the fourth of a scheduled twenty rounds to take the welterweight championship at the ‘ Wonderland ’ venue in the East End of London . |
| 4 | In a liberal democracy this needs to be scrutinized constantly , and herein lies the first problem for the researcher . |
| 5 | DEC specialist , $100m-a-year Micro Technology Inc , has acquired five-year-old SF2 Corporation , the Sunnyvale , California-based firm that pioneered and commercially shipped the first fault tolerant disk array storage device known as RAID 5/6 . |
| 6 | In parts of India , goats graze the cotton after harvest and so remove the last few infested bolls and stalks . |
| 7 | In these circumstances it seemed to Napoleon III that the Entente needed a boost and so came the first essay in Court diplomacy , the state visit to England in 1855 at the request of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert . |
| 8 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 9 | It is because of the fact that they total to four , and so include the fourth , climactic one , that Yahweh 's punishment falls . |
| 10 | The good news here is that because the suppliers have to sell large numbers of a low-cost product to recover development costs and so fund the next round of products — despite what Atex claim when they make their conference pitches — these companies have a distinct interest in making the products better , cheaper and faster . |
| 11 | Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul . |
| 12 | I think to myself that I can serve in opposition , make my case and perhaps win the next election , so I accept the result . |
| 13 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
| 14 | I avoided M.O.D saturday evening ( WHY have the cameras for our worst home result since about 1980 ? ? ? ? ) , and only caught the last 3 goals on the Sky roundup on sunday . |
| 15 | He scored a grade A in his maths ‘ O ’ Level and naturally entered the sixth form where he flourished . |
| 16 | Bob and Florence and er John and Rose and Stan and Doreen and the three of them and I are , are just very happy to be here and together to represent the Hundredth Group and what remains of it in the United States . |
| 17 | Bemoaning the corrupting influence of ‘ Americanisation ’ , and already reading the last rites over the decomposing virtues of English civility and order , Arnold 's influential Culture and Anarchy ( 1869 ) was regularly punctuated with fearful glimpses of ‘ a multitude of miserable , sunken , and ignorant human beings ’ in the city slums . |
| 18 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 19 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 20 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 21 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 22 | For it was there that Beethoven had enhanced the German grandeur of his music with the words of Schiller 's Ode to Joy and thus took the first step towards reintegrating poetry and music as equal partners in a new and sublime unity . |
| 23 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 24 | He did so successfully in 1948 , outpointing Vince Hawkins at Birmingham and thus becoming the first black champion to be recognized by the BBBC . |
| 25 | They bought a garage at Caterham from Anthony Crook , who still runs the Bristol Car Company , and began by carrying out ‘ all the usual garage things ’ , and soon became the first Lotus agent when the manufacturer began to expand . |
| 26 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 27 | Captain Simcox shivered and rapidly swallowed the last of his drink . |
| 28 | Quite apart from its technical ingenuity , its wily thematic evolutions and transformations , I love its eccentricity : only Bernstein could have ‘ tuned in ’ to Plato 's timeless dinner party and still had the last laugh . |
| 29 | George Woodger , an inside or centre-forward of the highest quality , played for the Palace in our earliest years and quickly became the first Palace ‘ superstar ’ — and that in an age when today 's publicity was unthinkable . |
| 30 | He eagled the 10th with a drive , four iron and five foot putt , and also birdied the 12th , 13th , 17th and 18th . |