Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] in the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet saying aloud to each other 's face , ‘ We do n't want to remain together in the next life ’ would amount to saying , ‘ No love ever existed between us , and no love exists between us now . ’
2 That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being .
3 It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful .
4 Accordingly , when power-looms worked by women began to appear early in the nineteenth century it " set women against women , especially young women working in the shops or mills against older married women working at home " .
5 The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures .
6 ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here .
7 The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place .
8 It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' .
9 David Atkinson , an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo , notes that the banks ' operating profitability began to deteriorate again in the second half of the last fiscal year .
10 But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ?
11 M F I traditionally has a stronger second half cash flow and net borrowings are expected to fall further in the second half of the year .
12 If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year .
13 Smith added : ‘ We did n't plan for a start like that , but it helped us to play well in the first half .
14 With the wisdom of hindsight it is easy to say that they should not have tried to raid there in the first place , but success had bred a certain arrogance .
15 This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place .
16 The need to deal effectively in the first instance in communications with Council Tax payers , both face to face and in writing , and hence the seniority of staff required for this purpose .
17 Critics believe there 'd be no need to build such expensive treatment plants to extract nitrates if farmers were given incentives to use less in the first place .
18 With an interval lead , ‘ Mill were in a strong position to dictate the pattern of play , but Hammer refused to submit easily in the second half .
19 up and call me now A little music as well we have on the show we have a video from Elvis to give away in the second half of the programme and star guest this afternoon is Mary Whitehouse .
20 Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place .
21 They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) .
22 I will concentrate upon two of the more difficult threads in the pattern I attempted to draw out in the last chapter , and will try to develop them further in a more philosophically coherent way .
23 The number 1 seed played to form again in the second leg as it moved to Coventry .
24 Clive Barker ( 1977 ) of Warwick University has given new substance to the use of games in the training of actors and Brian Watkins ( 1981 ) has evolved a theoretical framework conceptually linking drama and game in a way which I shall attempt to build on in the next chapter .
25 The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place .
26 On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place .
27 To try and reduce the potential for stress to build up in the first place .
28 In families where the mother tended to intervene often in the first observation period , the children did have longer quarrels and more frequent physical fights in the second observation period ( six months later ) than in families where she intervened less .
29 It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place .
30 for learning to gallop on in the first size
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