Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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31 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
32 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
33 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
34 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
35 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
36 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
37 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
38 | At the same time , scientists are building computer models of ocean circulation but full three-dimensional models must wait for the next generation of powerful computers . |
39 | I ca n't wait for the next get-together , and the thought of pulling on that old white shirt again excites me . |
40 | Like everyone else who has attended the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens , I ca n't wait for the next one . |
41 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
42 | I ca n't wait for the next revelations . |
43 | ‘ At the time I wanted to weep or murder somebody , but now — ’ he shrugged pragmatic shoulders ‘ — all I can do is wait for the next time . ’ |
44 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
45 | Half of Britain 's estate agents saw prices fall during the last three months . |
46 | Whilst some might quibble with the second part of that statement , who could argue with the first ? |
47 | Will his reputation survive into the twenty-first century ? |
48 | George VI , a shy man , was terrified of his new position and many feared that the monarchy would not survive into the next decade . |
49 | Would these principles survive into the next period of change in the 1990s , or had they outlived their time ? |
50 | More than half of them have now perished and only a score or more will survive into the next century . |
51 | But what of the notion that pubs wo n't survive into the next century ? |
52 | Cost control will serve us well for a single year but it wo n't give us a company that will survive into the next century . |
53 | Most innocuous sadism would fall into the first category ; sadistic murder would mark the extreme of the second . |
54 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
55 | As there is a danger that people will be confused and might buy from the second retailer thinking that they are buying from the other , he should be able to obtain an injunction preventing the second retailer from continuing to use the name he has chosen . |
56 | As you straighten your hand the band will jump from the first two fingers on to the third and fourth ones . |
57 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
58 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
59 | In fact , it appears to have been due less to a plot than to a calculation that she could not win in a second ballot . |
60 | As we shall discuss in the next chapter , there is a lot more work to be done before the causal process underlying this relationship is laid bare : we do not know whether it is through buying a better diet or better medical care , for example , that richer countries improve their life expectancy . |