Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their relationship was n't built on solid foundations , so it was hardly surprising , was it , that it should collapse at the first sign of trouble ? |
| 2 | The Law Lords should review at the first opportunity the natural injustice of injunctions which can silence all the media at a stroke . |
| 3 | The young officer , he concluded , must escape at the first opportunity or risk being classified as an unambitious ‘ no hoper ’ at an early career stage . |
| 4 | Next week we start the second part of the course , our erm , our key as it were and we 'll look at the first one with er . |
| 5 | You do n't need to go actually to the end with your numbers but you can take your line right along there cos you might find at the last minute there 's an extra one you want to put on . |
| 6 | So let's look at the first one . |
| 7 | Let's look at the second section of th of Labour 's motion . |
| 8 | Let's look at the last two in more detail . |
| 9 | The dogs themselves I 'd collect at the last minute . |
| 10 | You could say at the last he had his brother 's fibre , but it was manifested in fortitude instead of daring — which is a more admirable thing . |
| 11 | They er they used to come at the first , and I 'll tell you this and I , it 's my opinion , they got one of their own men er I 'd foxed them off , you know what I mean , to do their own odd jobs . |
| 12 | Likewise , the reactive home medic may panic at the first sign of trouble , fail to diagnose the true cause of the problem and , in adding a so-called ‘ remedy ’ , do more harm than good . |
| 13 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 14 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 15 | Any self respecting managing director in industry would recoil at the last Feethams balance sheet . |
| 16 | I asked if his telephone would work at the next big stop which came under the heading of serious to me . |
| 17 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 18 | If the taxpayer understood what the Government are planning with this privatisation and what they are doing to the coal industry , there would be no doubt what would happen at the next general election . |
| 19 | On getting there I calculated when I would arrive at the next post , where I promised myself lunch . |
| 20 | Always during this period the same paper was used , although a rumour that it would change at the next sitting was constantly promulgated by dealers who had once cheated , to discourage others from doing likewise . |
| 21 | She would leave at the first opportunity , and never again would she listen to the reckless promptings of her heart . |
| 22 | LEADING Liberal-Democrat MP David Alton will quit at the next election in protest at the party 's decision yesterday to back pro-abortion policies . |
| 23 | Working demonstrations of lifting , chopping and clamping will feature at the first UK National Fodder Beet Day , Steanbow Farm , Pilton , Shepton Mallet , Somerset , on Tue , Oct 29 . |
| 24 | Erm members will remember at the last er , personal services committee on the twenty fourth of June er , the option to put forward by the Environment Trust and Widdings er , builders was accepted as the one that er officers could pursue and to actually get some final proposals worked up and bring back to both the neighbourhood committee and this committee . |
| 25 | ‘ Either a Tory or a Labour minority government will look at the next election down the track and say , ‘ Hang on , we ai n't going to win ’ . ’ |
| 26 | The Windsors will look at the last four monarchs and their families and take a detailed look at their changing fortunes up to the present day . |
| 27 | The voters will decide at the next election . |
| 28 | If no start name is specified , the listing will start with the first alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN ; if no end module name is specified , the listing will end at the last alphanumerical module in LIFESPAN . |
| 29 | conservative administration will change the budget , obviously , you have highlighted in what you have said before , that the main crunch will come at the next Policy Committee . |
| 30 | As an advocate of the STV has observed , if an MP is " forced by the system to spend his working hours worrying about the number of first-preference votes he will get at the next election , and many of his sleeping hours dreaming about them , he or she will work harder than ever for constituents ' " |