Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] their [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 2 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 3 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 4 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 5 | Statistically , Oxted Green ‘ B ’ can be denied promotion from division three but it is highly unlikely that they will fall in their last match . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a fact that in the first 12 months one in three firms will close and in the longer term 900pc of new companies will shut in their first five years . ’ |