Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Mr Clarke can not duck away from if he wants to avoid a second Winter of Discontent .. |
| 2 | And Keegan revealed last night he plans to complete a second deal . |
| 3 | It also intends to open a third operation in Europe later in the year . |
| 4 | Despite such caveats , the deal looks sensible for BT , which should reassure the British government as it prepares to sell a third tranche of shares in the partly state-owned company . |
| 5 | The southern slab is lost , but the design seems to demand a third chariot . |
| 6 | You can pull it up by its roots , but if cut an inch or so above ground level it usually resprouts to give a second crop . |
| 7 | we always use at least three for a piano because although two men can lift them very often if you 're going round awkward corners it helps to have a third person s to steady them . |
| 8 | The streak is the route through which the epiblast invaginates to produce a third layer of loosely interconnected cells , the mesoderm . |
| 9 | Radius Inc warns that it expects to report a second quarter operating loss larger than its first quarter operating loss , and that second quarter revenues to March 31 will be below the $36.9m reported for the first quarter , when it lost $0.05 per share or $713,000 ; it has seen slowing demand for its Macintosh enhancement products in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US . |
| 10 | It expects to retain a third party to sell any remaining assets . |
| 11 | If he tries to start a second action , it will be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 12 | The company is looking for a comprehensive data management system for its database and expects to develop a third party relationship to meet its requirements . |
| 13 | The foundation , created last autumn by US financier George Soros , expects to make a second set of emergency grants to as many as 20,000 scientists after the 31 May deadline for applications . |
| 14 | If , for example , a man threatens to kill a third party who is a complete stranger to the complainant , her submission to sexual intercourse in these circumstances can hardly be regarded as true consent . |
| 15 | My attitude is that if a band manages to release a second album of poor songs four months after their first album left number one in the charts , it is n't worth the rush . |
| 16 | The syndicate decides to hold a second Hopkin exhibition at which they hope to gain enough money to pay Grisby Flatpattern to disappear . |
| 17 | BT promises to produce a second report in May , which will cover progress on reaching these targets . |
| 18 | If he fails to attend a second time the judge has power to commit him to prison for contempt of court . |