Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he puts it , with a certain dispassionate irony , in a letter of early 1870 : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 2 | That last , familiar , word was used by Nietzsche himself precisely in this context and at this time : " I observe how my philosophical , moral and scholarly endeavours strive towards a single goal and that I may perhaps become the first philologist ever to achieve wholeness . " |
| 3 | Susannah Lopez should perhaps have the last word : |
| 4 | It had happened before , she must just plot the next square like painting by numbers . |
| 5 | For consistency , we must also neglect the second term above , which is anti-resonant : this is termed the rotating-wave approximation . |
| 6 | If Mr Major , having presided over an economic recovery , should also win the next election , the Tories would come within striking distance of Sir Robert Walpole 's record of 21 unbroken years in office , set between 1721 and 1742 . |
| 7 | Wrangham comments : ‘ We may thus find the first evidence that so-called abnormal sexual behaviour may have a biological function ’ ; but he points out that a number of issues need to be resolved . |
| 8 | Well I 'll just see the first part of Eastenders if I can cos I 've seen the second part . |
| 9 | The act of writing can be difficult at times , but he predicts that he 'll soon become the first Parkinson 's Disease patient to abandon drugs altogether as he slowly leaves a life of disability behind him . |
| 10 | You know she 'll always 'ave the last word , so please come back and tell 'er yer sorry fer yer 'arsh words . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll probably miss the last shuttle , but I 'll be on the breakfast plane . |
| 12 | When those hybrids overran the guards they might simply tear the last survivors apart . |
| 13 | If I could just discover one , and come up with a catchy marketing phrase like ‘ Turn on , Tune in , Drop out ’ , I might well become the next Timothy Leary . |
| 14 | Engine and airframe modifications have reached a possible zenith , the airscrew might well constitute the last trip to the warbird racing well . |
| 15 | So it has dawned on the financial markets that the enemy might actually win the next election . |
| 16 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 17 | I 'll never forget the last putt as long as I live . |
| 18 | Stan has a love of children and his fossils may possibly encourage the next generation to study the subject and continue the search . |
| 19 | Yes , I do enjoy living here , but it 's very different from England and , I must admit , there are times when I miss things back home so much I could literally grab the first plane out of here . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 21 | But experts warned that any market fall could still jeopardise the first day 's trading . |
| 22 | But experts warned that any market fall could still jeopardise the first day 's trading . |
| 23 | Frank , and those who agreed with his theory of the development of underdevelopment , unequivocally denied that capitalism could ever develop the Third World . |
| 24 | She could clearly remember the first day that Scott had shown her around , could remember being impressed by the overwhelming glamour of it all . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , both Origen and Augustine could also presuppose the first view of inspiration . |
| 26 | When I first knew them in those early London days , I 'd often find the Second Son picking out some phrase on the piano in our living room . |
| 27 | At the moment it is still a new and unproven product but it could well represent the next generation of TechDoc software , at least so far as the corporate publisher is concerned . |
| 28 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |
| 29 | Carl Channell could never forget the first North briefing he saw , one of his contra slide shows in the White House . |
| 30 | Capture of the Mort Homme would eliminate the most injurious of the French field gun batteries that were crouched behind it , and would effectively dominate the next ridge towards Verdun , the vital Bois Bourrus where the French heavies were concentrated . |