Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who wants to spend the last 10 or 20 years of their existence incontinent , or unable to speak properly , or with severe memory problems , or unable to walk ? |
| 2 | But she refuses to spend the next seven months in hospital — and I ca n't say I blame her . |
| 3 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 4 | The SPAR system seems to represent the first explicit attempt to work out solutions to all four problems . |
| 5 | Sharp Corp aims to become the first Japanese company to make colour liquid crystal displays overseas when it starts manufacturing its super-twisted nematic displays — the lower-cost , lower performance colour displays — at its Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc in Camas , Washington . |
| 6 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 7 | NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced yesterday . |
| 8 | NCR Corp claims to have the first mainframe-class system using Intel Corp 's Pentium chip with the launch of its System 3555 symmetrical multiprocessor , announced today . |
| 9 | Japan Computer also claims to have the first large , high resolution LCD based on Thin Film Transistor technology , and says the XfC is the first of a flat-panel family . |