Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] for [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 2 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 3 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 4 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 5 | Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete . |
| 6 | Mallender than struck for a third time when Miandad could not resist one which moved away a little , Stewart gloving it with ease : 64 for 3 . |
| 7 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 8 | She flushed and hesitated , as if realizing for the first time where all this was leading . |
| 9 | This was , in fact , still many months of fighting away , but with the loss of the northern territories , the die was all but cast for the Second Republic . |
| 10 | She 's done nothing but play for the last two years . |
| 11 | When stopped for the first offence , he claimed the cruise control on his BMW was set at 98mph . |
| 12 | This is also the first thing we can tell about a person when meeting for the first time . |
| 13 | This measurement may , therefore , be of clinical value in the assessment of a patient with impaired renal function when seen for the first time . |
| 14 | The ability to lock the rope quickly is also very useful when searching for the next stance , or else in performing diagonal manoeuvres . |
| 15 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 16 | He lost his first-team place and then broke a finger when fielding for the 2nd XI . |
| 17 | When introduced for the first time , technical terms can be helpfully identified by having inverted commas round them . |
| 18 | He had maintained that position when asked for a third time after being put into an ambulance . |
| 19 | They are not illustrated here , because the nature and extent of digestion are the same as illustrated for the first category . |
| 20 | As well as campaigning for the first of the two alternatives , and for balanced representation on the licensing body , the society will introduce the abortion amendment . |
| 21 | The Italian government approved on April 27 the lifting from May 14 of all remaining controls on capital movements , several weeks before the deadline of July 1 as required for the first stage of EMU to be implemented [ see also pp. 37132 ; 36598 ] . |
| 22 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |