Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He revisited the USA in 1917 to play a decisive part in helping to set up the first official American military intelligence service . |
| 2 | He was one of several candidates vying to become only the 14th editor in the publication 's 128-year history . |
| 3 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
| 4 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 5 | Mr are you going to pick up the first point and then Mr . |
| 6 | BLANTYRE 's Jim McCann and Richard Corsie , from Edinburgh , go into action in today 's semi-finals of the Midland Bank World Indoor Singles Championship attempting to set up the first all-Scottish final for four years on Sunday . |
| 7 | But there 's some stiff competition for ’ New Release ’ , each year Beaujolais Nouveau hits British shops in a flood of publicity with people racing to bring back the first bottle to Britain . |
| 8 | Without wishing to rule out the first option I should like to consider the second , to examine the possibilities of indirect leverage over investment decisions . |
| 9 | Either the compromises begin and records become more accessible , or the band leaves the label , usually by virtue of being dropped or , in contract parlance , the record company failing to take up the next year 's option . |
| 10 | So the inquiry is by no means cut and dried and they 're now trying to piece together the last hours of the dead woman 's life . |
| 11 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 12 | THE UNITED Nations is planning to set up the first international research centre for applying genetic engineering and biotechnology to crops . |
| 13 | The draft platform formed the basis of Gorbachev 's opening report to the plenum , but he began by announcing that the politburo was proposing to bring forward the 28th CPSU congress from October to late June or early July , to be preceded by a " report-and-election campaign " during which " overdue personnel issues will be resolved and new elected party bodies will be formed " . |
| 14 | Corbett stopped his horse to watch some labourers in the fields below working to bring in the last of the crops . |