Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play . |
| 2 | ‘ I think Canada will do very well over the next four years . |
| 3 | It is hardly surprising , in such a climate , that Israeli ‘ moderates ’ , like their Palestinian counterparts , should now look so earnestly to the third party , the US , as the only possible way of saving Israel from itself . |
| 4 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 5 | According to the LFS code book , temporary jobs in the first category can include jobs the termination of which " is fixed for , by example , reaching a certain date or completing an assignment , or by return of an employee who has been temporarily replaced " ( our italics ) i.e. jobs that could fit equally well into the second category whilst jobs in the second category are taken to include those with " a work contract for a specific task or a fixed period of time " ( our italics ) i.e jobs that could fit equally well into the first category . |
| 6 | On the other hand , you will have gathered already that we are going to talk about Greater York , so I think there may be some distinct benefit and merit in you being he here to listen to that , er particular part of the topic , now the , I hope in fact that we can deal with the remainder of H One , because it it does lead quite logically into the next issue which we want to talk about , which is the new settlement in the Greater York area , er and I hope that we can get through this item by our morning break , that but whenever we do conclude on H One we will have to have a slightly longer break just to enable the seating arrangements to be sorted out properly for all participants who are involved in the discussion on the new settlement . |
| 7 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 8 | GAELIC , Doric and English will come together theatrically for the first time later this month , when tri-lingual theatre makes its debut at Broadford , Skye . |
| 9 | But then again , you could n't have predicted they 'd get this far in the first place . |
| 10 | Elaborate funerary rites , strenuously promoted by the emergent trade of the undertakers , ensured that the social pretensions of the middle-class would extend as far into the next world as money could take them . |
| 11 | But we 'll start quite logically with the first matter . |
| 12 | He will learn very quickly after the first stressful period when he leaves his litter-mates . |