Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In respect of the extent of enumeration and location of some topics , the sixteenth edition reverted to the fourteenth . |
| 2 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |
| 3 | It is against such a background of fervent articulate piety in Europe , always presenting the Church with the challenge of potential heresy , and occasionally erupting into mass movements like the hysterically fervent white-robed flagellants who lashed themselves in hysterical penitential preparation for the Second Coming , that the English situation in the fourteenth century has to be seen . |
| 4 | Not , thought Robert , that there would be much anyone could do should the Twenty-fourth Imam decide to loon around SW19 behaving like a negative version of Superman . |
| 5 | The second part related to prisoners serving life sentences . |
| 6 | It at the beginning of the second sentence refers to coming downstairs ( and not to his head , of course ) , and then the next it refers to another way . |
| 7 | Indeed the second sentence seems to be merely the passive reformulation of what is expressed by Someone saw him to be walking away , with the inferential or conceptual sense of see rather than the perceptual one . |
| 8 | A second spitfire came to Douglas 's aid and the Heinkel was sent crashing to its doom in the water beside Port Seton . |
| 9 | The second difficulty relates to the potential for deliberate manipulation of the accounts to produce preferred results . |
| 10 | In a similar manner to the interview analysis technique , a record was set up on the database for each activity using the numerical codes as an identifier , and a second field used to type in all information needed or produced by that activity . |
| 11 | It had previously been held in a lower court that a second computer had to be involved ( p 101 ) . |
| 12 | The trial judge upheld that submission on the ground that , on a true construction of s 1(1) ( a ) , a second computer had to be involved , so that s 2(1) was inapplicable to the facts . |
| 13 | On a submission of no case to answer the trial judge ruled that , on a true construction of section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 , a second computer had to be involved , so that section 2(1) was inapplicable to the facts , and he upheld the submission . |
| 14 | Bernard 's second sister went to Corfu for a holiday and came back with holiday snaps . |
| 15 | Then , remembering her damaged thumb , she went back and examined the top rail , exclaiming aloud in excitement as she found a second thread clinging to the rough wood . |
| 16 | A single processor supports 64 users ; an optional second processor goes to 128 active users , twice what the line could previously handle . |
| 17 | The second category relates to a transaction whereby a private person disposes of goods to a businessman . |
| 18 | THE BEST unbeaten run in the second division came to an end last week when Maghull lost at Maine Road in the Vase . |
| 19 | West Ham doing so well in the second division went to first division Luton , and by half time they were in front , a Pariss goal after forty three minutes , but Luton hit back in the seventieth minute through Black , and these two sides must replay . |
| 20 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 21 | The second criterion refers to the promotion of the interests of consumers and purchasers of goods and services via quality and variety . |
| 22 | Its essential elements are the first vote given to a constituency candidate , the second vote given to a party list , and that list itself . |
| 23 | However , after the birth of her second child returning to work did n't work quite so well . |
| 24 | Therefore the Supreme Court 's analysis of the case really only revolved around the second question presented to it , namely , conviction under the mail and wire fraud statutes . |
| 25 | Mr 's second question related to the question of whether rows , E |
| 26 | I would answer the second question relating to the expression ‘ is being ’ accordingly . |
| 27 | Thereafter the company of the other horses kept him on course , and a bad mistake at the water jump on the second circuit worked to Mandarin 's advantage , as it put him back to fifth place and gave him horses to follow . |
| 28 | The second issue relates to the mechanisms by which management conduct is brought before the courts for review . |
| 29 | Still , in true Wolverton style , trying to find the ultimate answer to the problem , the second type reverted to the experimental model . |
| 30 | It was encouraging news , but the second session drew to a close with the vexed issues of religious freedom and the Jews , which were dealt with in the final two chapters of the document on ecumenism , still undecided — though Cardinal Bea insisted they would be discussed in due course . |