Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 40,000 men a year undergo vasectomy , but with one in three marriages ending in divorce , increasing numbers are forming new relationships and wanting to have a second family . |
| 2 | Now he is attempting to win a third title in the middleweight division but first he must win his European title fight against the tough Dutchman John Neslo today . |
| 3 | Now he is attempting to win a third title in the middleweight division but first he must win his European title fight against the tough Dutchman John Neslo today . |
| 4 | We were going to use a four-second snatch of The Hokey-Cokey , and were quoted £3,000 . |
| 5 | They are not speaking to each other , following a disagreement on the eighth night over whether or not Chris was going to have a third bottle of wine with dinner . |
| 6 | Its driver believes the coach was swerving to avoid a third vehicle . |
| 7 | He closed the door behind him and walked slowly down the corridor until he reached the top of the marble staircase , passing his own office and Pat Muldoon 's without wishing to take a last look . |
| 8 | In another series of cases the Court has condemned national laws which require undertakings which are licensed to carry out particular activities in one member state having to obtain a second licence to provide the same services in another member state where the licensing requirements in the first member state adequately safeguard all necessary requirements for the protection of the public interest . |
| 9 | A dog training scheme to help the deaf has been so successful that the organisers are having to open a second training centre . |
| 10 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 11 | On some issues , however , the Court 's liberal minority was still able to prevail as a result of managing to win a fifth vote , usually from either Justice Byron R. White or Justice Sandra Day O'Connor . |
| 12 | I am intending to build a third pond , with dimensions 20′ × 6′ × 2′6″ . |
| 13 | ‘ And some of us men are learning to take a second job , eh ? ’ |
| 14 | These are no good for trying to implant a second time because the wood is a year older and much less likely to ‘ take ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 16 | weakness : midfield/up front — Nilsen is a defender and Ingebrigtsen is not playing first team futba for City — he has been rented out to norwegian club rosenborg this summer and is now back in city , trying to get a first team place . |
| 17 | Langer is hoping to add a third major to his collection after winning at Augusta while Price , the US PGA champion , and recent Memorial Tournament winner , Paul Azinger , complete a high-powered threeball . |
| 18 | Other organizations : UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , executive secretary Adebayo Adedeji ; African Development Bank , president Babacar N'Diaye ; Francophone states including France [ for June 1990 summit in La Baule see p. 37524 ] ; Franc zone — members of the Union monétaire ouest-africaine use the franc of the Communauté financière africaine ( CFA franc ) whose central issuing bank is the Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique de l'ouest ( in Dakar , Senegal ) , while central African countries in the franc zone use the franc of the Co-opération financière en Afrique centrale , ( also known as the CFA franc ) with the same parity of 50 to the French franc , but whose central issuing bank is the Banque des états de l'Afrique central ( in Yaoundé , Cameroon ) ; Lusophone states — Portugal , Angola , Cape Verde , Guinea-Bissau , Mozambique , Sao Tomé and Príncipe — whose Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 24 , agreeing to hold a first summit in 1991 . |