Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 2 | It is hard to disappoint someone who may have come in as a last port of call when all other channels to sort out their problems seem closed . |
| 3 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 4 | I feel bitter that while I was out there I was somebody but I 've come back as a third class citizen . |
| 5 | It has n't come out of a first aid . |
| 6 | He said their figures applied to five other water authorities as well as AW , and said disconnection was only carried out as a last resort , when all other methods failed . |
| 7 | This exercise was carried out by a third year group in a secondary school studying a cholera epidemic . |
| 8 | Microsoft claims FoxPro 2.5 performed at least four times better than its closest rival , Borland 's Paradox 4.0 , in tests carried out by a third party consultant.FoxPro 2.5 will eventually be released for non-Windows DOS , Apple Mac and Unix platforms . |
| 9 | At present the language still has to be adopted commercially by a third party . |
| 10 | ‘ Had you wished to refuse , you would have done so without a second thought ! ’ |
| 11 | To many geographers the general statistical tendencies revealed above do not explain anything , and the use of industrial structure in this context is seen only as a first step in the analysis of spatial change . |
| 12 | Urban Programme funding has , therefore , all too often operated not as a last resort , supporting imaginative projects , but as a substitute for resources cut from other budgets . |
| 13 | A few days later the few uneven patches were shaped up with a second mowing , with the greatest of ease . |
| 14 | As has been indicated , such machinery is established , but it is intended to be used only as a last resort . |
| 15 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |
| 16 | Descriptions based on comparison of a sound in the new language with a sound in the student 's own language should be used only as a last resort , since dialect differences in languages made such descriptions confusing and often valueless . |
| 17 | A firearm is to be used only as a last resort . |
| 18 | As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results . |
| 19 | Plus , of course , there 's Emma 's violin which will always draw folk-rock comparisons , even though it is employed more as a second guitar or lead keyboard . |
| 20 | There is still a month of the fitness challenge to run and participants are being invited back for a second assessment . |
| 21 | The basic examination should consist of : ( a ) an interview with frequent switching from language to language ; ( b ) an improvised short speech in the first language on a topic chosen at random , to assess general knowledge ; ( c ) non-technical information in one language to be rendered consecutively in a second language ; ( d ) translation from a text off-the-cuff . |
| 22 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 23 | Boro had fallen behind to a fourth minute penalty on a ground where they were seeking their first win since 1938 . |
| 24 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister . |
| 25 | Jyoti Basu was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister on June 29 at the head of a CPI(M)-led government . |
| 26 | Congress ( I ) retained control of the State Assembly in Arunachal Pradesh in elections held in February 1990 , and Agong Apang was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister in March [ see pp. 37245 ] . |
| 27 | The CPI(M) was returned to power in State Assembly elections held in May 1991 ; Jyoti Basu was sworn in for a fourth term as Chief Minister in June [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 28 | President Hafez al-Assad was sworn in for a fourth term in office on March 12 . |
| 29 | DUP MP Peter Robinson said selective internment should only be brought in as a last resort . |
| 30 | And now Dennis Gray has weighed in with a second version of his ‘ Life as a Climbing Tyke ’ — the first having been that marvellous tale of human bondage from 20 year ago , Rope Boy , or ‘ How I survived an apprenticeship with Joe Brown and started to love climbing ’ . |