Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 2 | But now I 'm looking at 15 articles totalling 20,000 words which I must deliver within the next six days . |
| 3 | With the political dust not yet settled from a controversial abortion ruling in July , the nine Supreme Court justices must rule in the next nine months on three other attempts by US states to regulate abortion as well as the right of parents to terminate the life of a brain-dead daughter . |
| 4 | To force Lawrie Smith to a match-race play-off he must finish in the top six nations . |
| 5 | Candidates should send to the undersigned ten copies ( one from overseas ) of their applications and of any statement that they may think it desirable to submit , and should name three referees . |
| 6 | Maisie sat in the corner of the kitchen with one chocolate bar in her mouth , another in her right hand , another in her lap and a fourth beside her on the draining board , in case anything should happen to the other three . |
| 7 | However , historians and contra-cyclical investors may argue that there have been few five year periods since the Second World War when deposits have outperformed equities — and stock markets should revive over the next five years . |
| 8 | While civil conflicts of this kind should diminish in the next twenty-five years as African states mature , they will not disappear . |
| 9 | But I might do in the next fifty years any of them . |
| 10 | But I 'm sure we 'll finish in the top six . |
| 11 | There were also reasons why tension between France and Germany might decline in the early eighties . |
| 12 | Indeed , the history of previous heroin ‘ epidemics ’ in the USA and the UK suggests both that , on the one hand , this plateau stage will be followed by a slow decline in the prevalence of heroin use , and , on the other hand , that a new heroin ‘ epidemic ’ might occur in the late 1990s or at the start of the next century . |
| 13 | ‘ Obviously it 's not good enough and I 'll decide over the next 48 hours what I am going to do . |
| 14 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 15 | If you are concerned about how Lothian Region might change over the next fifteen years or so , this leaflet will be of interest to you . |
| 16 | I do n't want to be mister average so we 'll go for the fifty five . |
| 17 | We 'll go for the fifty five . |
| 18 | The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura 's age got to it was in the clothes they wore . |
| 19 | The time set for one of the days is midnight , but it is not clear how long the Committee might sit for the first six days . |
| 20 | The study concluded that there has been no reported increase in any radiation-related illnesses , such as leukaemia , birth defects or thyroid cancer , in the villages surrounding the reactor , although it suggested that incidence of thyroid cancer might increase over the next five to ten years . |
| 21 | Let's look at the last two in more detail . |
| 22 | I 've tried it with Episode 1 , and it may work for the other two episodes as well . |
| 23 | The Irish Prime Minister , Charles Haughey , could resign within the next two weeks according to Fianna Fail party sources . |
| 24 | Streat asked MacArthur for his views on trade with China to which the general replied that an increase in trade between Japan and mainland China would not occur immediately but that he was convinced that this could occur within the next four or five years . |
| 25 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 26 | They would not expect the taking of Perth and Scone to be easy , and night would fall long before they could send back to clear out Abernethy and Forteviot , or before they could press on the further twelve miles to Dunkeld . |
| 27 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 28 | If you could find me a garret somewhere near you , where I could live for the next three months , I could finish it , and perhaps get it Published . |
| 29 | It 'll be interesting in the year two thousand and ninety to look back and see what we used to do in the nineteen nineties . |
| 30 | Its what we used to do in the 2nd div championship year , and even in the first division the first year up . |