Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What they 're saying in effect is that they 're not going to entrust their latest toy to their closest ally because we 'd flog it to the first Russian we came across . ’ |
| 32 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 33 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 34 | If the authorities read that they 'd put me on the next bus to [ name of border area ] and keep me there . |
| 35 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
| 36 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 37 | He used to shut you in the next room and give you a pile of books and you 'd have to take notes from about seven or eight different books . |
| 38 | Your player used to test you on the first hole . |
| 39 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 40 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 41 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 42 | Several different views have been put forward ; we shall consider them in the next chapter under three headings : |
| 43 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 44 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 45 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 46 | Chapman had put the Town on a firm footing that would see them to a third championship the following year to become the first club to win the title three years in succession ; and two years after that they were runners-up . |
| 47 | He would meet me off the last train … . |
| 48 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 49 | He says that there should be an increased capital allowance for this year , cunningly saying that it would cost nothing in the first year ; that is equivalent to saying that the bill is in the post , as we all know that it is paid after 12 months . |
| 50 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 51 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |
| 52 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 53 | At the speed the train is going , I will catch it at the next station . |
| 54 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 55 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 56 | And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’ |
| 57 | This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean . |
| 58 | Mr Rich will contact you within the next few days . |
| 59 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
| 60 | If the cursor is currently in a scrolled area , pressing TAB will move it to the next input field on the line within the scrolled area . |