Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Mel was good enough for a first team place in our first year back and did OK . |
| 2 | " Dogs first " — that would take an immoderate time — perhaps long enough for a third drink . |
| 3 | Not necessarily as a second best : over and again in the culture of homosexuality , differences of race and class are intensely cathected . |
| 4 | To many geographers the general statistical tendencies revealed above do not explain anything , and the use of industrial structure in this context is seen only as a first step in the analysis of spatial change . |
| 5 | If used strictly according to recommendations , chemical treatments have their place , if only as a last resort for serious threats . |
| 6 | In Ajdabiya , too , the police intervened in civil wrongs only as a last resort : occasionally , for example , disputes over water-rights occurred between lineages , even sections of lineages , and one or other party would try to enlist the support of the police . |
| 7 | Today it means in terms of a hierarchy of pedagogical responsibilities that the individual and the individual family have a primary role , which they carry out through contracting and engaging for specific purposes the services of ‘ free ’ organizations according to their private ideological orientation , and only as a last resort does the state intervene directly . |
| 8 | Depending on his assessment of the patient , the therapist may judge that he should be encouraged to use open access only as a last resort ; in other cases it has to be accepted that the patient and his relatives may benefit if they can use this facility often . |
| 9 | Lenders sought to take possession only as a last resort , but sometimes there was no alternative . |
| 10 | As has been indicated , such machinery is established , but it is intended to be used only as a last resort . |
| 11 | Use these only as a last resort , since it is better to stop moisture getting into the walls in the first place . |
| 12 | But it was only as a last resort in 1120 that the community committed itself to , and based its case upon , the expedient of introducing into existing documents the necessary phrases , which — if they had been there in the days of Lanfranc or Anselm — would have given their case a firm basis in papal documents . |
| 13 | In buildings of more than two storeys , wait for the fire brigade , and jump only as a last resort . |
| 14 | Attempt ‘ heroic ’ rescues only as a last resort . |
| 15 | Liberal theorists such as T. H. Green argued in the 1880s and 90s that poor social conditions hindered the desirable growth of moral and communal responsibility among the poor , but Green also looked to improvement from increased voluntary exercise of responsibility and regarded state intervention only as a last resort . |
| 16 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |
| 17 | Descriptions based on comparison of a sound in the new language with a sound in the student 's own language should be used only as a last resort , since dialect differences in languages made such descriptions confusing and often valueless . |
| 18 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 19 | A firearm is to be used only as a last resort . |
| 20 | It means that when pesticides are used , and it is only as a last resort , then the most environmentally friendly are chosen . |
| 21 | Exports are likely to rank only as a third objective . |
| 22 | We are confident these reforms will contribute to the recognition of the voluntary sector , not only as a third force , but as a sector in its own right . |
| 23 | The tax 's defenders point out that only between a third and a half of church members pay the levy , and then only in proportion to their incomes . |
| 24 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 25 | It is bad enough to fail one 's driving test once ; to do so for a second time reinforces the sense of hopelessness in the learner 's mind — he now has twice as many failures to build upon — so that he uses his ability to visualize in an even more negative fashion . |
| 26 | This represents an elastic strain or interatomic separation of about 1.0 per cent , perhaps between a tenth and a twentieth of the theoretical strength . |
| 27 | ‘ Should the thief read this and comprehend the distress he has caused as well as the futility of his action , if he organises the return of our parts , perhaps through a third party , then we will take no further action . ’ |
| 28 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 29 | By Easter term 1292 he was back in the Tower and his lands once more in the king 's hands , apparently after a second conviction . |
| 30 | The official results in these first multiparty local elections since the Second World War were finally announced on Aug. 13 , apparently after a second round of voting on Aug. 2 to decide close-run elections in 18 of Albania 's 42 municipalities and 97 of its 304 communes . |