Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [that] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In considering whether at this stage it is possible to say that the answer to this question must be ‘ nothing ’ I must assume that the third defendant will be found guilty of conspiracy or fraud as alleged by the plaintiffs and also that the third party will be found to be negligent as regards the plaintiffs in the respects mentioned in the third party notice . |
| 2 | And he should remember that the last person who talked to trees while pursuing a determined foreign policy was George III . |
| 3 | While you ponder this month 's challenge , I must admit that the first competition , about the Teddy box , has proved a cathartic experience for me . |
| 4 | You may feel that the last paragraph should be a strong conclusion , but you must remember the realities of the news room and the editor 's desk . |
| 5 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 6 | Oh I 'll know that the next time it comes up in erm |
| 7 | You might decide that the third gate will stand for an unknown option , which you have yet to consider . |
| 8 | We may suspect that the first replicators on the primitive Earth were not DNA molecules . |
| 9 | Tensions within international football could mean that the fourteenth World Cup will be the last of its kind . |
| 10 | ‘ He used to say that the first obligation as a sports writer was not to be in the least boring ; that you had to try and retain the excitement of the event in your writing — without taking liberties with the truth or manufacturing drama . ’ |
| 11 | Like the regulationist school , however , this view of long waves would stress that the fifth wave is as yet only embryonic and its form is still to be determined . |
| 12 | So , if we knew that P was the first letter of a word we would know that the second letter could only come from a small group , and that A , E , I , O , and U are the most likely candidates , H and S are less likely but possible , and F and N very unlikely , but not impossible . |
| 13 | This pseudo-cleft structure would signal that the first part ‘ we are attempting to draw something in this book ’ is given and the second part ‘ this something is a general picture ’ is new . |
| 14 | The nature of stress is simple enough — practically everyone would agree that the first syllable of words like ‘ father ’ , ‘ open ’ , ‘ camera ’ is stressed , that the middle syllable is stressed in ‘ potato ’ , ‘ apartment ’ , ‘ relation ’ and that the final syllable is stressed in ‘ about ’ , ‘ receive ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , and most people feel they have some sort of idea of what the difference is between stressed and unstressed syllables , though they might explain it in many different ways . |
| 15 | I would argue that the second meaning is the only appropriate one . |
| 16 | Viewers , when presented with a shot in which the subject is seen looking at something off the screen , will assume that the next shot will show whatever it was that the person was looking at . |
| 17 | Filling in these forms correctly will ensure that the first Council Tax bills will be as accurate as possible and take account of any entitlements to discount , exemptions or rebates . |
| 18 | We will insist that the first call on income from the sale of mental health hospitals is the provision of better accommodation and services in the community for mental health users and people with learning disabilities . |
| 19 | It follows that the higher the prevailing rate of interest , the more people will anticipate that the next change will be downwards . |
| 20 | Regular readers will recall that the first half of the 1970s saw an unprecedented upsurge of feminist activism , the most vigorous since the struggle for the vote in the first two decades of the century . |
| 21 | You will recall that the first task we set ourselves , in default of any clear instructions in the matter , was to decide what exactly we were doing , and that to this end we proposed to examine some of the various concepts involved . |
| 22 | You will notice that the first line of the paragraph is no longer indented . |
| 23 | If you do set too high , you may find that the first syllable spoken after a pause is distorted , especially on p's and b's , after which the overall level of the recording drops to a lower value as the speaker continues ; during the next pause in speech , the background slowly returns to its original value until the speech resumes , whereupon it falls again . |
| 24 | But , used in conjunction with a scoring algorithm , it can guarantee that the first answer is one of the optimal ones . |
| 25 | Having cowed the trade unions , we can see that the next step was to take on the local authorities and the poor . |
| 26 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 27 | I can see that the third party would have a cogent argument that even if he were liable to compensate the plaintiffs in respect of these matters it would not be just and equitable to require him to make a contribution to the third defendant 's liability . |
| 28 | And you can bet that the first visit will not be the last . |
| 29 | If there are any lingering doubts as to which editor is hammering the keyboard this time those same students can reflect that the last editorial was signed ‘ Furuta and Stotts ’ — so it must be somebody else 's turn — and can then proceed with their detective work via a careful study of what follows , based on the orthography of certain non-occurring words ( e.g. ‘ centred ’ , ‘ orientated ’ and ‘ colourful ’ ) . |
| 30 | We can say that the 1st turn plus the 2nd turn adds up to 180° . |