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

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1 He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps .
2 Then one day in the summer of 1989 — around the time that I had signed a contract to go on the second rebel tour of South Africa — I got a call from Australia that came as a bombshell .
3 There is a difficult , and unresolved , question about the application of the " fair comment " defence to comment by a third party which is published in a newspaper .
4 So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch .
5 Speaking at the company 's developers conference , Apple Computer Inc chairman John Sculley said he expects the company 's strong momentum to continue into the second half of the fiscal year , adding that among new products on the stocks are the speech recognition computer system code-named Caspar and the pen-based portable notebook .
6 A high cut-off score is necessary since achieving it is taken to indicate mastery of a particular domain , or readiness to proceed to the next level of learning .
7 They last gave that assurance at the Secretary of State level on the tenth of December ninety two and that was a clear assurance given at that time , that each government has a firm intention to proceed with the next phase of the programme .
8 Tomorrow was too far distanced for his mind to wait for the last piece of evidence — a mind so ceaselessly tossing , as it had been ever since Lewis — wonderful Lewis ! — had mentioned that seemingly irrelevant item in The Oxford Times .
9 Do not allow the horse to wander into the first fence .
10 We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public .
11 Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support .
12 Hence began the campaign to enable the President to stand for a second term of office .
13 This rise in spending will raise national income to £1,010 in period t + 1 and this will cause both consumption and investment to increase in the next period , period t + 2 : Notice that both investment and national income have already risen above the levels reached in the previous example .
14 People are also being asked to make their voices heard expressing concern over the possible cut to aid to the third world .
15 New Zealand captain Martin Crowe has agreed to coach Italy 's national cricket team for the next two months to help their bid to qualify for the next World Cup in 1996 .
16 Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel .
17 Wright slowed the pace down with telling effect to romp through the second game , but Wallace came back strongly to take the third .
18 Also playing are Witney Talent to bulldock in the second division of the Beezer Homes League while Abingdon town makes the short track to Maidenhead United in the Vauxhal League division to Falf .
19 You can then press the TAB key to move to the second page and enter the identifiers of the additional DCs to be activated via this package .
20 WHILE expensively-assembled Blackburn and Derby faltered in the Second Division promotion race , Charlton , who have no home or money to spend on players , continued their unlikely attempt to return to the First Division with a 2–1 win at FA Cup finalists Sunderland , writes Christopher Davies .
21 He also declared his willingness to participate in the second round of the presidential poll and said that UNITA would attend forthcoming multiparty talks convened by the MPLA-PT .
22 I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train .
23 Ultimately the test to be applied is that of the magistrates , and they may also take into account such factors as the likelihood that disorder might ensue as a result of what the defendants were doing , and the reasons prompting the constable to intervene in the first place .
24 We 've had a lot about politics this morning , and if the Labour Party wants to mobilize working women many of them who did n't vote Labour at the last election here is a ready made campaign to take into the next election .
25 Colonel Bumford took his opportunity to win on the last throw .
26 See also the case Casey v Breachwood Motors Ltd ( Times Law Reports 29 July 1992 ) , where the court lifted the veil of incorporation to allow the plaintiff to proceed against the second company .
27 First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood .
28 Even Tan 's timing of the mysterious opening arpeggio gives warming of the drama to come in the first movement .
29 As you know , the Society has accepted an invitation from BAGA to send a team to Amsterdam in 1991 as part of the British Team to participate in the 9th World Gymnaestrada .
30 She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place .
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