Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 3 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 5 | Shelf 4 of bay E could be designated to hold all the histories of England likely to be added to stock during the next hundred years or more . |
| 6 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 7 | I want to refer to the third Sessional Order , Mr. Speaker , dealing with access — the last one to which you referred . |
| 8 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
| 9 | The number of cars on our roads is expected to double over the next thirty years . |
| 10 | At present , about one in five children is in full-time higher education and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years . |
| 11 | The House should listen to what the Minister has to say in the last few minutes of the debate . |
| 12 | It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade . |
| 13 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 14 | Visix is currently recruiting for a UK subsidiary it plans to open in the next two months . |
| 15 | As for tomorrow 's race , Jeremy ca n't realistically expect to finish in the first ten first time out . |
| 16 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 17 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |
| 18 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 19 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 20 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 21 | Okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what we 're going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here . |
| 22 | So , what we 're going to do for the next four months is look at the anatomy of a PC . |
| 23 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 24 | What I 'd like to do for the next twenty minutes of the er of the seminar is talk about client server today . |
| 25 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 26 | One of these subjects may be offered to qualify for the Second Level Group Certificate in Book-keeping and accounts . |
| 27 | He knew the cruelty she was going to witness over the next three months would be agony for her because , for some reason , she trusted animals far more than humans , but , like a nurse looking after animals in a vivisection clinic , he could n't prevent her pain , only alleviate it as much as possible . |
| 28 | ‘ I was just wondering how we were going to get through the next few hours . ’ |
| 29 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 30 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |