Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The crumple-faced star — known for his love of the good life — once said : ‘ I 'd rather stay in the second line .
2 This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible .
3 In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) .
4 The decomposition of observed unemployment rates into their classical and Keynesian parts can only serve as a first step in the formulation of macroeconomic policy since such an exercise must take place within a broader framework which encompasses concepts such as short- and long-run Phillips curves , the natural unemployment rate , and NAIRU .
5 So what you would have had for the whole of ninety two and the whole of ninety three will all come in , will all come in the second half of ninety three .
6 Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place .
7 Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place .
8 As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place .
9 It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide .
10 A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable .
11 I doubted not that they were law officers , but did not linger for a second look , being already at the casement windows into the side garden .
12 This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable .
13 Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist .
14 George VI , a shy man , was terrified of his new position and many feared that the monarchy would not survive into the next decade .
15 FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election .
16 In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot .
17 Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us .
18 Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us .
19 The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting .
20 So I must not jump at the first chance .
21 However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June .
22 My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed .
23 However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously .
24 A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century .
25 Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis .
26 She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt .
27 Excellent so you 've already got percentages sorted out there , can we just look at the next block of words , and hello , hello , right , no , yeah well I , yes I I think it all went great , unfortunately erm , so I really ca n't really consider on , on that .
28 See chapter 2 and do not look on the last fortnight as the only time to work , even if it does " concentrate your mind wonderfully " .
29 ‘ No , no ; I think we will just stick to the first choice .
30 So you 'll think he 'll just flow into the next day 's
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