Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got two essays to write in the next fortnight . |
| 2 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 3 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 4 | Within minutes of the result being known , Mrs Thatcher ( still in Paris ) had announced her intention to stand in the second ballot and Hurd , with her in Paris , had declared that she continued to have his full support . |
| 5 | This rise in spending will raise national income to £1,010 in period t + 1 and this will cause both consumption and investment to increase in the next period , period t + 2 : Notice that both investment and national income have already risen above the levels reached in the previous example . |
| 6 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 7 | She had a horse to ride in the last . |
| 8 | For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race . |
| 9 | Also playing are Witney Talent to bulldock in the second division of the Beezer Homes League while Abingdon town makes the short track to Maidenhead United in the Vauxhal League division to Falf . |
| 10 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 11 | He also declared his willingness to participate in the second round of the presidential poll and said that UNITA would attend forthcoming multiparty talks convened by the MPLA-PT . |
| 12 | Ultimately the test to be applied is that of the magistrates , and they may also take into account such factors as the likelihood that disorder might ensue as a result of what the defendants were doing , and the reasons prompting the constable to intervene in the first place . |
| 13 | The citizens of Pisa by then had recently taken over its government from the archbishop — they had formed the commune of consuls in the early 1080s which was to be a model for innumerable cities in Tuscany and Lombardy and Umbria to follow in the next two generations , the characteristic Italian commune . |
| 14 | When you 're trying to wrap up international agreements on global warming and the protection of biodiversity , let alone to devise ‘ an agenda for action ’ for all countries to follow in the next century , things will inevitably escalate . |
| 15 | In his resignation letter Garrett reiterated his ignorance of what had occurred , but accepted " full responsibility " for the Navy 's response and for the " leadership failure " which had allowed " the egregious conduct at Tailhook to occur in the first place " . |
| 16 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 17 | I have reservations about Perlman and Mehta 's treatment of the Glazunov , though , which seems neither as richly romantic as Oscar Shumsky 's on Chandos , nor as glittering as Anne-Sophie Mutter 's on Erato : the other two versions to appear in the last year . |
| 18 | Even Tan 's timing of the mysterious opening arpeggio gives warming of the drama to come in the first movement . |
| 19 | As you know , the Society has accepted an invitation from BAGA to send a team to Amsterdam in 1991 as part of the British Team to participate in the 9th World Gymnaestrada . |
| 20 | She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place . |
| 21 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 22 | Moving swiftly on he coined the phrase ‘ objectware ’ to refer to the hundred or so third-party objects that can be bought off the shelf to run in the NeXT environment . |
| 23 | Robyn let out a deep breath as she strolled up the dusty track , forcing her inflamed body to relax in the last vestiges of evening sun . |
| 24 | Earlier still , rumour had it that England selectors needed only to whistle down a mine-shaft for a couple of fast bowlers to arrive in the next cage . |
| 25 | Taking a clearance from Nilsson , Sheridan found Palmer , whose centre left Williams to snap in the first goal from close range . |
| 26 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |
| 27 | The overall increase in referral rates may seem disappointing to those who hoped that fundholding would provide a mechanism for reducing the demand for specialist care , but it was probably unrealistic to expect a shift to occur in the first year of the scheme . |
| 28 | The Damiani family made their decision to leave in the third week of April after snipers in Tel Aviv began shooting into the centre of Jaffa , sending at least one bullet into David Damiani 's home . |
| 29 | AN American has paid £3,000 to appear in the next Michael J. Fox movie for just five seconds . |
| 30 | Eighteenth-century products though they were , Beethoven 's three sonatas of Op. 10 all pre-echo things to come in the nineteenth . |