Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students who wish to enter a combined course must complete the first year satisfactorily , with passes in two units in each of the two subjects which they wish to combine . |
| 2 | He was scathing about an electoral pact with the Liberal Democrats and said he was convinced that Labour could win the next election . |
| 3 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 4 | A footprint in a muddy field could provide the first real lead for police hunting the man who 's become known as the horse ripper . |
| 5 | DEC says its results for this quarter will reflect the first growth in its business for eight quarters . |
| 6 | Mac-on-Unix house Quorum Software Systems Inc , a hit at last year 's UniForum , this week will stage the first public , albeit belated , showing of its Equal end-user product at the Silicon Graphics Inc and Sparc International booths . |
| 7 | Mac-on-Unix house Quorum Software Systems , a hit at last year 's Uniforum , this week will stage the first public , albeit belated , showing of its end-user product Equal at the Silicon Graphics and Sparc International booths . |
| 8 | It follows an editorial policy that believes foreign news should lead the first three pages , that matters of national interest should be philosophically debated in the newspaper 's columns , and that half a page of sport either side of the weekend is enough . |
| 9 | This Government will fight the next general election as a Conservative and Unionist Government . |
| 10 | This shift in the centre of gravity from the rich North to the less developed world will increase the Third World 's influence in the denominations and certainly change aspects of faith . |
| 11 | The suggestion that the Chinese made American civilisation says more about the myths of the modern age ( especially the one which says that the Confucian world will dominate the 21st century ) . |
| 12 | Should the shareholders of Tyne Tees accept their directors ' recommendation the combined group will become the third largest television company in the UK . |
| 13 | Western banks are even more reluctant to part with cash , seeing the possibility that East European borrowing could become the Third World debt problem of the 1990s . |
| 14 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 15 | An oval orbit would falsify the first but not the second , whereas any orbit that falsifies the second will also falsify the first . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister should answer the first part of that question , but not the second . |
| 17 | A Labour government should cancel the fourth and end all British nuclear testing . |
| 18 | If the body is to be cremated , two doctors must sign a certificate — but the first doctor will instruct the second doctor who can see the body in the chapel of rest or at the mortuary . |
| 19 | The Conservative and Unionist party will fight the next general election as the party of the Union . |
| 20 | The normal form will characterise the first step of a process ' behaviour using the highest levels of syntax , and rely on inner levels to deal with subsequent steps . |
| 21 | Dr John Bonnell of the Central Electricity Generating Board would find the third cancer death at Sizewell less ’ difficult to explain- ( This Week , 24 February , p 509 ) if he consulted Dr Alice Stewart or Dr Broso . |
| 22 | This sawn surface will become the first face of the section , and it is lapped with paraffin oil and 600F Carborundum on the precision lapping machine . |
| 23 | The effect of not doing so is the likelihood that the Conservative Party would lose the next election on the back of a gravely wounded economy . |
| 24 | Schoolchildren from Whinfield Junior School will deposit the first cans into the bank in the car park of the Gateway Foodmarket on Whinbush Way . |
| 25 | If the original payee is stumped for funds at maturity , the final holder can approach the last endorser for payment , who in turn can claim from the previous endorser , etc . |
| 26 | The new institute will spend the next year merging the three existing committee and regional structures , and expects to be fully operational by 1 January 1993 . |
| 27 | This is not considered in much detail by Marslen-Wilson and Tyler ( 1980 ) ; however , they do suggest that the acoustic-phonetic information needed to define the word-initial cohort must include the first vowel of the word . |
| 28 | Critics fear the new scheme will remove the last vestiges of strategic planning power : although the new county planning statements will have to cover housebuilding , large industrial and commercial development , and Green Belt issues , they will have no statutory force and can not include detailed land allocations . |
| 29 | The Labour party will win the next election . |
| 30 | The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday it was hoped that next week would see the first dairy farms released from the restriction orders . |