Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 2 | Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month . |
| 3 | ‘ Times when it is hard to take yourself to the 1st tee . |
| 4 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 5 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 6 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 7 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 8 | These witches are the ‘ middle class ’ of respectability , always concerned to distance themselves from the first group and ever keen to present the acceptable face of natural religion . |
| 9 | This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development . |
| 10 | In these circumstances , the tensions apparent within the philosophies of life available in the nineteenth century were able to perpetuate themselves into the twentieth . |
| 11 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 12 | That way , we might be able to achieve something over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 13 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 14 | Stoke boss Lou Macari was more subdued as he admitted : ‘ It needed a little spark of magic up front to get us into the next round , but we did n't have that spark tonight . ’ |
| 15 | So we have four , five six , seven , eight , nine we have n't even got enough to see us through the next twelve months . |
| 16 | It is difficult to know what of the next few seconds I remember , or have pieced together , or have been told by Nathan . |
| 17 | Life has changed radically since then and fresh thought is necessary to carry us into the 21st century . |