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

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1 I 've got two essays to write in the next fortnight .
2 William Symons must have been a wild one for in July of the same year he and Elizabeth Cole also of Halling , were both bound over for twenty shillings to appear at the next gaol delivery .
3 He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity .
4 After he had sent off this AC/189 , Gen McCreery took steps to deal with the second signal he had received from Gen Keightley that morning , the 0.413 in which Keightley had reported in more detail on the imminent arrival in Austria of the 300,000 German and 200,000 Croat troops , and had asked for authorization to accept the surrender of these forces as " formed bodies " .
5 In deciding which combinations to take after the first year of study , applicants should be aware of the entry requirements for both subjects .
6 Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’
7 Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own .
8 Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki .
9 When you 're trying to wrap up international agreements on global warming and the protection of biodiversity , let alone to devise ‘ an agenda for action ’ for all countries to follow in the next century , things will inevitably escalate .
10 Two days to go before the first home game of the season .
11 I have reservations about Perlman and Mehta 's treatment of the Glazunov , though , which seems neither as richly romantic as Oscar Shumsky 's on Chandos , nor as glittering as Anne-Sophie Mutter 's on Erato : the other two versions to appear in the last year .
12 First , as economies grow , rising productivity levels made possible by technological advances allow workers to pass into the next sector .
13 An American note was sent to the Soviet Union on 11 August 1947 requesting a report from the Joint Commission by 21 August to enable the two governments to decide on the next step .
14 Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage .
15 Try to be as enthusiastic as possible ( enthusiasm is catching ! ) and take the names of everyone who came and ask them if they know of any other Christians to invite to the next meeting .
16 In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half .
17 The proposal is for employers ' contributions to begin on the first pound of earnings .
18 Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith .
19 Not only did many teachers in many schools meet in library committees to discuss for the first time their common interests and sometimes contrasting perspectives with other members of subject departments across the school ; they also , for the first time , were forced to consider seriously the pedagogy implied by their present use or misuse of the resources already on offer or their failure to use them .
20 Cameroun and South Korea are the teams to avoid from the fourth pool .
21 Cameroun and South Korea are the teams to avoid from the fourth pool .
22 The force has already spent £428,000 on extra officers to deal with the second incident in which two children died and 53 people were injured .
23 While the result gives Peter Shilton 's side hope in their efforts to stay in the Second Division , the FA Cup finalists will face their own anxious battle against relegation between now and May 9 .
24 These were arranged to allow the morning feeding to be carried out and a one-and-a-half hour break for tea allowed many farmers to return for the second feed and to check the stock .
25 The new hockey season starts tomorrow … three local teams to follow in the second division
26 Lois Forer , a judge and former assistant Pennsylvania attorney general , expects that the decision on the Barnes tour will encourage donors to include ‘ gift over ’ provisions in their bequests , allowing gifts to pass to a second institution if the first recipient of a donation violates the restrictions placed on gifts .
27 If individual sessions are the chosen option , the therapist may give the client a number of handouts to read before the next session and a self-monitoring sheet to record incidents of anxiety .
28 There are different ways to control for a third factor when investigating a relationship between two variables .
29 If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year .
30 Released by a group of independent scientists to coincide with the Second World Climate Conference , the report said that to minimise the risk of environmental damage , the rate of increase of average global temperature must be held below 0.2C per decade .
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