Example sentences of "to [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever local radio you were listening to during the 3rd week of June , it is likely that you would have heard Delahunty 's editorial director , Paul Mace , on the hour , every hour , bringing you those live reports from the Pilkington Glass Ladies ' Championships at Eastbourne .
2 It would , of course , be unthinkable to actually put down in print what Rex and Laura got up to during the next hour .
3 Marandet in Niger , 1200 kilometres due north of Igbo Ukwu , has been dated by radiocarbon to between the 6th and the 10th centuries AD .
4 The notion of power referred to here is that which Lukes referred to as the second dimension of power ( see Ch. 2 ) .
5 This , incidentally , is officially referred to as the first launch of the programme although it was the second .
6 These are referred to as the first , second , third and fourth bond dissociation enthalpies respectively .
7 To overcome this problem , you should ALWAYS include a line similar to as the FIRST line of any error handling routine .
8 Those born in countries referred to as the Third World are much less likely to reach what would be considered to be old age .
9 A combination of District and Regional Council 's policies , industrial decline , and the embracing of popular capitalism pursued by central government since their election in 1979 , has ensured that the schemes in Glasgow have the highest levels of multiple deprivation of any other city in the UK and has created what is commonly referred to as the Fourth World .
10 As the speed is increased , the damping becomes less and you will be able to decide on a reasonable limit to keep to for the first half hour .
11 Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year .
12 ‘ Gary can only answer by performing in the style we have grown accustomed to for the last few seasons . ’
13 Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so .
14 Oh yes , there were Well , all the erm boys from up to about the fifth form , in the old pupil-teachers training centre went , er was formed by joining that and school , they took boys from there .
15 They have been radiocarbon dated to about the 9th or 10th centuries AD and seem to have been intended for use in ceremonies associated with an important priest .
16 okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ?
17 And erm we erm when you got to about the third class I think you you was allowed to participate int he woodwork and metal er class , you used to go across for half a day a week .
18 No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it
19 The Northern Line was begun in 1890 but added to throughout the twentieth century until 1941 .
20 This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century .
21 she does n't spell her name like that and I 'll speak to within the next couple of working days
22 I 'm going back now to before the First World War , sometime in the early years of this century .
23 Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics .
24 But how do you know who to talk to in the first place ?
25 And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time .
26 ‘ I did n't steal anything from you , and what you lost , you had no right to in the first place . ’
27 you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place .
28 Before we talk about the er er getting to the purpose of our meeting , erm , how long were you , how did you come to in the first place ?
29 erm is not talking to in the first place
30 There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets
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