Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the timber side , an enormous selection of old doors ranging from the 17th century to Art Deco is available . |
| 2 | It is illuminated by brilliant passages of interpretation and convincing proposals for source material for Magritte 's imagery , ranging from Egyptian and Greek sculpture , fifteenth-century frescoes and Symbolist pictures of the nineteenth century to photography and film stills , pulp fiction and popular postcards of a mildly erotic flavour , and illustrations published in the Larousse encyclopaedia . |
| 3 | The criticism of anthropology , from Lévy-Bruhl 's attack on the nineteenth century to Lévi-Strauss 's critique of Lévy-Bruhl , followed by Derrida 's deconstructions of Lévi-Strauss , has largely been an expulsion of perceived romanticism . |
| 4 | He owned over 100,000 acres ; most of his property was situated in the counties of Bute , Ayr , and Wigtown , but he was also a major proprietor in Glamorgan , where the Cardiff Castle estate , originally granted in the sixteenth century to William Herbert , Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] , had passed to his grandfather through marriage . |
| 5 | the response of the second generation to discrimination and social exclusion in general , and in the housing market in particular . |
| 6 | London Market , including internal reinsurance , produced estimated losses up from $16.7m to $22.2m following a near doubling of the deficit in the second quarter to $12.5m ( 1992 : $6.5m loss ) . |
| 7 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 8 | The meeting opened immediately after the second return to Phnom Penh , under heavy guard , of Khieu Samphan . |
| 9 | The second qualification to democracy in this particular ‘ liberal ’ form is that society is recognized as being pluralistic … |
| 10 | The first level of the DUD relates to jobs and the second level to orders for parts , because for each occurrence of the job data , there can be many occurrences of order data . |
| 11 | The second poem to Octavia opens with little change from the first . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh sir ! ’ said Mrs Crump faintly and for a moment she threatened to be the second act to Miss D'Arcy 's opener . |
| 13 | The second route to compliance is to produce a technical construction file for the equipment which is then assessed by a DTI-appointed body . |
| 14 | But he never received the second call to Covent Garden for which he longed . |
| 15 | The second drawback to incineration is the pollution that it generates . |
| 16 | ‘ You gave the second twin to Celia ? ’ demanded David . |
| 17 | A new , hard-edged approach is expected from the joint services maxi-yacht , Satquote British Defender , in the second leg to Fremantle , Western Australia . |
| 18 | The only thing left to do is to transform all the unc of the second type to x — IF/ALT . |
| 19 | The second approach to PCR — establishing citizens ' committees ( or neighbourhood-council forums ) — proved equally ineffective . |
| 20 | The second approach to prevention is the implementation of educational programmes aimed at modifying the attitudes of young people to attempted suicide . |
| 21 | The second approach to learning activates the imagination . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're smoking my next six weeks ’ dole money , ’ I said , handing the second joint to Melanie . |
| 23 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 24 | For some , it was the second pilgrimage to Rome as a parish group , and many well-loved churches and places were again visited as well as new places of interest . |
| 25 | North said he would have offered the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland or a ride on the space shuttle ; George Cave , the interpreter , offered to send the Second Channel to Miami Beach . |
| 26 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 27 | He was married twice : the first time in 1739 to Anne Bayne , who died tragically in childbirth four years later , and the second time to Margaret Lindsay with whom he eloped in 1752 in highly romantic circumstances . |
| 28 | That day , April 29 , twenty Spitfires were safely delivered to Renfrew with one each on April 30 and May 1 for a total of 52 aircraft which constituted 100% of the complement assigned for the second delivery to Malta . |
| 29 | ‘ When Wimbledon asked to speak to me , I told Ossie I would catch the second flight to Tyneside . |
| 30 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |