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

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1 This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible .
2 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. ) .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist .
6 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 .
7 With Aquino adamant that she would not stand for a second term , the jostling for position amongst those ambitious to succeed her intensified in late 1990 and early 1991 .
8 Waldheim , who had been barred from entering the USA [ see p. 35528 ] and shunned by European governments , had announced in June 1991 that he would not stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] .
9 Another , compiled in June , stated that no one believed any longer in an early end to the war in Russia , and that soldiers on leave had said they would not go through a second winter there .
10 The red was sharp and thin but drinkable , though one would not care for a second glass .
11 Put it instead at the back of a base cabinet or high up on a wall cabinet , or in the space , if there is one , between wall cabinets and ceiling which you can always turn into a second tier of cabinets by adding fronts to match your other units .
12 So that fact that you ca n't think of a next question Phil
13 There will be 40 happy faces when the School ends tomorrow but there will also be a lot of tears and Whelan may even return for a seventh time .
14 But I know I would n't stop with a second opinion .
15 ‘ Maybe you do n't kiss on a first fight , huh ? ’
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