Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he is unlikely to have foreseen the next blow . |
| 2 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 3 | When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice . |
| 4 | But those more than hints of fine ensemble playing were amply realised the next night in the Dvorak , elegant and warm , crafted with care , and in Strauss 's Serenade from Capriccio . |
| 5 | He had completed the second nine in 29 for a round of 68 and a total of 273 , finishing with six successive birdies . |
| 6 | HAVING completed the first two legs of their Caribbean tour , the South Africans , who arrived here yesterday on what is the least volatile island on their itinerary , feel the political success of their visit is already guaranteed . |
| 7 | In fact , by Christmas 1988 , after three months solid debate , it had still not completed the first of the five subject areas laid down by Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson at the start . |
| 8 | For next the stewards decided that only those drivers who had completed the first lap would be allowed to re-start . |
| 9 | We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day . |
| 10 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 11 | On behalf of CEPT , the Conference on European Posts and Telecommunications , the European Radiocommunications Office has completed the first Detailed Spectrum Investigation into the use of radio frequencies in the microwave or millimetric spectrum — between 3.4GHz and 105GHz . |
| 12 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 13 | To get stuck into Part Two you do n't have to have completed the first instalment , but you DO need to have the password . |
| 14 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 15 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 16 | BY the time you read this article we shall have completed the first training workshop on T.Q.M. designed for directors and a number of senior managers . |
| 17 | , personnel secretary at Ipswich , has successfully completed the first stage of a three year course in personnel management at the Suffolk College . |
| 18 | There was a request to Council to investigate the position of those who had completed the first module but were not registered and whether they should be allowed to attend the Keele Conference . |
| 19 | Erm , it 's important to remember that this is , in financial terms , a four year transition period , and you have n't yet completed the first twelve months . |
| 20 | Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right . |
| 21 | Rob has recently completed the first leg of the Round the World Yacht Race . |
| 22 | Having successfully completed the first year of the new Teachers ' Training Course the students have gone away to grapple with their holiday assignments . |
| 23 | The Pioneers will by now have completed the first leg of their journey to Cyprus . |
| 24 | The previous evening , I could not have completed the last fifty yards without his help , but now if he had climbed on my back he could not have been more of a hindrance . |
| 25 | Willie had completed the last of the ‘ Learning to Read ’ books . |
| 26 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 27 | By the end of the lesson we had completed the sixth month . |
| 28 | However , technical hitches plagued the first night . |
| 29 | Conjointly , a second attack was to be launched the following day on the Right Bank to capture Fort Vaux , whose enfilading guns had also stopped the Fifth Army on its other flank . |
| 30 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |