Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage we should look briefly at the third and final possibility , and with it some cases we shall not be discussing in this book . |
| 2 | It should prove so for the first killer as well . |
| 3 | I think christmas should start everywhere in the first week |
| 4 | OUR AUGUST issue ( page 22 ) carried a competition entitled We 'll Meet Again as the 11th Great Warbirds Air Display loomed up . |
| 5 | It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months , |
| 6 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 7 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 8 | But towards the end of the second or fourth repeat he made some small alteration in the ports de bras so that the dancer could move easily into the next sentence . |
| 9 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |
| 10 | The outcome could swing dramatically at the last stage . |
| 11 | This provides a dress rehearsal for what could happen nationally after the next general election : a hung parliament in which Labour needs the support of the Liberal Democrats in order to form a government . |
| 12 | The Earth 's climate could change significantly in the next century |
| 13 | A differentiation was drawn between ‘ factual ’ agency for which express authority given by the members to the Council would have to be established , and ‘ constitutional ’ agency which could derive directly from the 6th International Tin Agreement . |
| 14 | Its supporters in the streets may melt away at the first sign of trouble . |
| 15 | The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) . |
| 16 | He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up . |
| 17 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 18 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 19 | ( This would work well with the third of the examples above . ) |
| 20 | They also had previous experience , so we hoped all would go well for the second run . |
| 21 | I was a little disappointed it had not been there , but I was quite sure he would write again in the next few days . |
| 22 | Yet what was certain was that God would strike punitively at the first sign of sin , and the worst sin in a ruler was pride . |
| 23 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 24 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 25 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 26 | Now fitted with the superior 2.9-litre engine , the latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year — 48 per cent falls are the norm . |
| 27 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 28 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |
| 29 | The issue of theatrical performance is an important one , and one that will appear again in the next chapter . |
| 30 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |