Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , external auditors are left with a very difficult decision as to whether they should report to a third party if they suspect the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 2 | The panel would have responsibility for counselling the external assessors on whether they should report to a third party when they suspect that the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 3 | If you should divorce for a second time , you can claim on your second husband 's contribution record only . |
| 4 | The second attribute is that each paragraph should have as a first sentence a brief statement or at least an indication of what the paragraph is to consider . |
| 5 | To change to a left handed helix it must pass through a fourth dimension . |
| 6 | To change from clockwise to anticlockwise it must go through a third dimension to become a mirror image . |
| 7 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 8 | Well we could 've got a second hand one , but I mean what I 'll pay for a second hand one we might as well get |
| 9 | Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that users may transfer from a first access term to related terms , and to broaden or narrow the search parameters . |
| 10 | There was no way she 'd respond to a third degree , so I was hoping she 'd decide I was harmless . |
| 11 | It could lead to a second defeat . |
| 12 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 13 | If this chemical were released into the air surrounding the leaves , it would act as a first line of defence , repelling aphids with an eye on predation . |
| 14 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 15 | Suharto 's pronouncements , although clouded in typical ambiguity , certainly gave the impression that he would stand for a sixth term . |
| 16 | This would allow for a second phase of gas generation and migration . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher expressed confidence that she would win and declared again , as she had at the outset , that even if she did not win outright she would continue to a second ballot no matter how narrow the margin of her majority over Heseltine . |
| 18 | ‘ Makes your blood run cold to think what small boys will do without a second thought . ’ |
| 19 | We expect to raise many thousands of pounds and are hoping it will run into a second edition and provide the ACA with money well into the future . ’ |
| 20 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 21 | ‘ Unless we move immediately into high growth , high technology areas our standard of living and quality of life will deteriorate and we will degenerate into a Third World nation . |
| 22 | This association means that primary gastric MALT lymphoma can develop as a second neoplasm or that other neoplasms can occur in both treated and untreated patients with gastric lymphoma . |
| 23 | Or you can enter into a second Deed of Covenant committing yourself to make payments under both the existing and new covenants . |
| 24 | One reason for having that meeting is to reform the institutions so that they can cope with a second wave of new members , this time from Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | Of the single unitary voyage , worth 1.00,0.61 will have contributed to the election of Paisley , 0.10 will have contributed to the election of Craig , and 0.29 can pass to a third candidate ; and should that candidate be consequently elected with a transferable surplus , the 0.29 of a vote can , down-valued yet again , pass to yet a fourth candidate . |
| 26 | There is the grudging recognition that , as it stands today , the House of Lords is an indefensible anachronism and that only limited legitimacy ( and therefore power ) can attach to a second chamber whose membership is largely based on heredity and which has an overwhelming and permanent majority for the Conservative Party . |