Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abroad , he has already attained a high respect internationally for the manner in which he is endeavouring to help the third world and to play a responsible part in eastern Europe . |
| 2 | The chance of the monkey happening to get the first letter — M — right is therefore 1 in 27 . |
| 3 | Gandhi acknowledged this and what he has to say about brahmacārya has to be taken as applying in the main to those who are able to accept the discipline involved in resolving to enter the third stage of life . |
| 4 | Paul has an enviable record in both his sales and sales training performance , and he is endeavouring to become the fourth Fellow of the Professional Sales Guild . |
| 5 | 's warning to send the next late-comer straight to Matron . ’ |
| 6 | There seemed no point , unless it was just a question of wanting to get the last word . |
| 7 | On the third party 's summons seeking to have the third party notice struck out , pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 18 , r. 19 or the inherent jurisdiction of the court , the master held that the claim was capable of falling within section 1(1) of the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978and dismissed the application . |
| 8 | On 6 June 1991 , the third party issued a summons seeking to have the third party notice struck out . |
| 9 | The seminars , which will be held in Dundee and Glasgow , will focus on the second phase of general SVQs , though they may also include workshops for centres wanting to pilot the first batch of awards for the first time . |
| 10 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 11 | In the first place it financed a boom , helping to win the last election . |
| 12 | It 's a song about running away — ‘ a Jack Kerouac On The Road experience ’ — but also about how ‘ if you do n't like this town , you 're not going to like the next town either — you ca n't run away from yourself ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 14 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 15 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 16 | Everything below , we were sure , was exactly as it would have appeared in centuries past-apart from one major anachronism , a bright yellow construction crane , which was attempting to plant the last monolith in the stone circle . |
| 17 | ( I saw a party of friends — all knowing that their host and hostess must either clear up before retiring , or rise early before going to work the next day — whisking round to help before they left . |
| 18 | Attempting to crank the last iota of abandonment out of an intrinsically empty and mechanical experience . |
| 19 | For example , " What do you think about Mr Gorbachev ? " or " Who do you think is going to win the next election ? " |
| 20 | We , at any rate , are not going to fire the first shot . |
| 21 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 22 | I think that one 's saying that in order to resolve one problem , their may be unforeseen and , one hopes temporary , minor problems which emerge in consequence of attempting to resolve the first problem . |
| 23 | Within the next few weeks , Sparc International Inc is going to release the next iteration of its interface definition for the Sparc RISC architecture . |
| 24 | ‘ Looks as if Dora 's going to have the last laugh , ’ said Iris . |
| 25 | You 're going to take the second right , just after that pub . ’ |
| 26 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 27 | Then , both of them a little awkward , a little shy , not liking to make the first move , the Shotterys had walked together down the path , away from the little group at the church porch . |
| 28 | No longer ( as happened in the primary school in which I first worked ) would the teacher responsible for the fourth year ‘ scholarship ’ class leave them as soon as the examination day ( in January ) was passed — going to prepare the third year ‘ A ’ stream for next year 's examinations with a diet of chanted tables , spelling tests , drills in mental arithmetic , weekly essays , grammatical analysis , punctuation , and worksheets based on past intelligence test papers . |
| 29 | We are beginning to plan the next stage of development with a target of 6500 campus-based students by the year 2000 . |
| 30 | We are only just beginning to see the first stirrings of a new debate on industry 's competitiveness . |