Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crumple-faced star — known for his love of the good life — once said : ‘ I 'd rather stay in the second line . |
| 2 | When we are developing an artist on an international basis , success does n't necessarily happen in the first or second album . |
| 3 | So what you would have had for the whole of ninety two and the whole of ninety three will all come in , will all come in the second half of ninety three . |
| 4 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 5 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 6 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
| 7 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 8 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 9 | It did not exist until the mid-eighteenth century , when Joseph Black first prepared carbon dioxide . |
| 10 | This technique is one of the prominent syntactico-semantic features of the first part of the novel , and it does not disappear in the second and third sections . |
| 11 | There seems to be a general expectation that the tiny societies will finally disappear in the next 20 years . |
| 12 | Given economic growth and open markets , that figure could easily double in the next five years , and again in the next five , putting China into the top rank of the world 's traders and helping maintain the growth rates of its Asian neighbours . |
| 13 | A story in Numbers 25 which we did not consider in the last chapter ( for it is not a complaint story ) makes it even more readily understandable . |
| 14 | This can not fall on the last syllable of the stem , and is , if necessary , moved to an earlier syllable . |
| 15 | F.L.R. 237 , 245–246 , whether the case might not fall within the second of the two classes of case identified by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 . |
| 16 | We cooked dinner , packed up things we did not need over the next two days and had a group meeting to discuss the itinerary for our journey home . |
| 17 | OUR flower gardens are full of blossom at the moment , carried on plants that will not survive beyond the first few frosts of autumn . |
| 18 | George VI , a shy man , was terrified of his new position and many feared that the monarchy would not survive into the next decade . |
| 19 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 20 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 21 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 22 | The value of AOB is to allow urgent matters to be raised which can not wait until the next meeting . |
| 23 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 24 | This means the voter marks his second preference on the ballot paper ; and , if his first choice candidate does not finish in the first two , his vote is transferred to one of those who is still in with a chance . |
| 25 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 26 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 27 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 28 | In this area we have Frame Technology 's FrameMaker which already runs on the Sun 386i and will shortly appear on the Next and Macintosh II platforms . |
| 29 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |