Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 However , if he or she survives the first half hour , there is a good chance of complete recovery .
2 Someone who can not predict what will happen after he or she takes the first drink .
3 If the originator chooses to proceed , he or she enters the next phase , referred to as initial screening .
4 Butt up a whole panel against the skirting and mark off where it overlaps the last fixed panels .
5 Move the fifth paragraph ( 'TABLES : … leg room ? ' ) so that it becomes the second one
6 Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first .
7 Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first .
8 Archipel SA of Paris claims that it has the first Inmos International Ltd Transputer-based distributed Unix system , built using Chorus Systemes SA 's Unix System V-compatible microkernel technology on Archipel 's Volvox-TS line of multiple instruction-multiple data parallel processors .
9 Dworkin makes it clear that he considers the second principle to be the more fundamental one under a liberal conception of equality .
10 My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme .
11 Often , however , he is under such pressure to complete the project by a given date that he accepts the first feasible solution he arrives at instead of working systematically towards the optimum .
12 ‘ I finished me readin' book today and I starts the last one on Mondee .
13 It does not make for comfortable listening if one spends the First Act jumping up and down to raise the volume a notch , and the Third , mindful of the neighbours , turning it down again .
14 If one believes the second conjunct , one must invoke an unusual explanation for the sounds emanating from my mouth .
15 And there goes the first , firing into her flank .
16 It 's an introduction cos this is given to a member of staff and he says the first the question is can develop and train all staff .
17 And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians .
18 His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat .
19 and it does the last thing you 've done times the
20 When you pull this out and it goes the next time start it turn it over , rewind it to the front .
21 Jackson 's next work , An Essay on Bread ( 1758 ) , defended bakers and millers against malpractice charges levelled by Peter Markham [ q.v. ] and Joseph Manning , and it represents the first reliable book on the chemical detection of food adulteration .
22 It offers further confirmation for GR outside the solar system and it provides the first evidence , albeit indirect , for gravitational radiation .
23 Handwriting recognition software is still lousy , and it seems the first pen systems will just have pre-programmed forms loaded .
24 I 've got one C D that every time I put it on it erm speeds up really , really fast and it jumps the next track and does the same then .
25 When the river is nearing low ebb , vast stretches of sand are laid bare , but channels of grey brown water of varying widths and depths continue to rush out between the sand formations until it meets the next tide coming in , twelve hours later .
26 Labour has promised to restore Trades Union rights to workers at GCHQ in Cheltenham if it forms the next Government .
27 ‘ Well , if it does the first out 'll be the dockers and railwaymen .
28 ( 21 ) John has two PhDs +> I believe he has , and have adequate evidence that he has ( 22 ) Does your farm contain 400 acres ? +> I do n't know that it does , and I want to know if it does The first of these provides an explanation for " Moore 's paradox " , namely the unacceptability of utterances like ( 23 ) : ( 23 ) ? ?
29 If he wins the next two legs , today and tomorrow , his total prize money as overall Grade A champion will only amount to £970 — but he will have the opportunity to compete at Wembley for the rest of the week .
30 The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him .
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