Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , external auditors are left with a very difficult decision as to whether they should report to a third party if they suspect the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 2 | The panel would have responsibility for counselling the external assessors on whether they should report to a third party when they suspect that the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 3 | If you should divorce for a second time , you can claim on your second husband 's contribution record only . |
| 4 | The second attribute is that each paragraph should have as a first sentence a brief statement or at least an indication of what the paragraph is to consider . |
| 5 | To change to a left handed helix it must pass through a fourth dimension . |
| 6 | To change from clockwise to anticlockwise it must go through a third dimension to become a mirror image . |
| 7 | It 's a good , well-made , sturdy one ( a Mothercare Taxi ) , so it should last for a second child and it 's easy to fold down with one hand . |
| 8 | Well we could 've got a second hand one , but I mean what I 'll pay for a second hand one we might as well get |
| 9 | Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that users may transfer from a first access term to related terms , and to broaden or narrow the search parameters . |
| 10 | There was no way she 'd respond to a third degree , so I was hoping she 'd decide I was harmless . |
| 11 | The crystal structure shows the presence of two probable DNA-binding sites : in addition to the residues already discussed , there is a second cluster of highly conserved basic residues in GH5 , consisting of Lys40 , Arg42 , Lys52 and Arg94 , which could interact with a second duplex of DNA ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 12 | He could stand for a second four-year term . |
| 13 | It could lead to a second defeat . |
| 14 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 15 | The Committee normally meets fortnightly for the first eight weeks each term ( weeks 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 ) and may meet on a fifth occasion ( in week 10 ) . |
| 16 | If this chemical were released into the air surrounding the leaves , it would act as a first line of defence , repelling aphids with an eye on predation . |
| 17 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 18 | There was intense speculation as to whether President Suharto would run for a sixth consecutive term , and as to who , if he decided not to run , would succeed him . |
| 19 | Suharto 's pronouncements , although clouded in typical ambiguity , certainly gave the impression that he would stand for a sixth term . |
| 20 | This would allow for a second phase of gas generation and migration . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher expressed confidence that she would win and declared again , as she had at the outset , that even if she did not win outright she would continue to a second ballot no matter how narrow the margin of her majority over Heseltine . |
| 22 | However , even under this scenario the amount of crushed rock which would be required from land based sources in Wales would rise by a third . |
| 23 | However , even under this scenario the amount of crushed rock which would be required from land based sources in Wales would rise by a third . |
| 24 | We should consider what happens when one moving body comes into contact with another : ‘ what way , and with what swiftness , the invaded body shall move ; and , again , what motion this second body will generate in a third . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Makes your blood run cold to think what small boys will do without a second thought . ’ |
| 26 | We expect to raise many thousands of pounds and are hoping it will run into a second edition and provide the ACA with money well into the future . ’ |
| 27 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 28 | They will vote for a fourth Conservative Government , because since 1979 the record of the current Government and their predecessors in regard to Wales has been excellent . |
| 29 | He will end with a third in the final chord , even when he omits the fifth , and both he and Crecquillon anticipate Palestrina in the climactic use of great descending scales often in thirds , sixths , or tenths — as at the end of his ‘ Jerusalem surge ’ : or the end of Crecquillon 's ‘ Ingemuit Susanna ’ . |
| 30 | History is the arena in which , first through the period of the Old Testament , then by the teaching of Jesus in the New , the way has been prepared for the gradual purifying and refining of man 's religious sense which will lead to a third , future era , in which religious values will be seen to shine in their own light as ‘ necessary truths of reason ’ . |