Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavy rain stopped everyone after 18 laps , so it was back to go for a second start . |
| 2 | Having driven past in the usual manner , the driver then had to go through a second time in reverse so that the mourners on the other side could also take a look . |
| 3 | Hulme did n't get his weekend , and was ordered to train for a third team match the following Wednesday . |
| 4 | Hence began the campaign to enable the President to stand for a second term of office . |
| 5 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 6 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 7 | Two days before the speech ( i.e. on Aug. 14 ) a petition signed by a group of 58 human rights activists , academics and retired armed forces officers had called on Suharto not to stand for a sixth term as President in 1993 . |
| 8 | Lois Forer , a judge and former assistant Pennsylvania attorney general , expects that the decision on the Barnes tour will encourage donors to include ‘ gift over ’ provisions in their bequests , allowing gifts to pass to a second institution if the first recipient of a donation violates the restrictions placed on gifts . |
| 9 | There is a difficult , and unresolved , question about the application of the " fair comment " defence to comment by a third party which is published in a newspaper . |
| 10 | In the event of our cancelling this order as to all or any of the goods and/or the work covered thereby we shall be entitled to purchase from a third party a like quantity of goods of similar description and quality , or a reasonable alternative thereto , bearing in mind our need to take delivery of the goods by the date specified overleaf , or to contract with a third party to perform work of a similar description and quality , and in that event you shall be liable to reimburse to us on demand all expenditure incurred by us in connection with our said cancellation , including any increase in the price over that stated overleaf . |
| 11 | And it is increasingly common for us to need to bank in a third currency . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ At least that generation knows how to behave at a first night … ’ |
| 13 | I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’ |
| 14 | Then it goes on to look at a second play , B , and the replies to that . |
| 15 | Would millions of people tramp across the hills to look at a twentieth century Broadway Tower ? |
| 16 | We have then to look at a third area of asymmetry , directly connected with qualitative changes in the means of cultural production . |
| 17 | In the event of our cancelling this order as to all or any of the goods and/or the work covered thereby we shall be entitled to purchase from a third party a like quantity of goods of similar description and quality , or a reasonable alternative thereto , bearing in mind our need to take delivery of the goods by the date specified overleaf , or to contract with a third party to perform work of a similar description and quality , and in that event you shall be liable to reimburse to us on demand all expenditure incurred by us in connection with our said cancellation , including any increase in the price over that stated overleaf . |
| 18 | TALKS between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic aimed at settling the so-called dirty tricks affair last night looked likely to continue into a fourth day . |
| 19 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 20 | There may be a general tendency to exaggerate ; couples seem to be more willing to abandon expectations of a third child than they are to opt for a third child after stating an earlier preference for two . |
| 21 | If the answer to the pursuer 's case is that the fault for the accident rests wholly or partly with someone else , consideration should be given now to service of a Third Party Notice by which that other party blamed can be brought into the action . |
| 22 | However , the purchaser should be aware that the effect of the decision by the House of Lords in the recent case of Walford v Miles [ 1992 ] 1 All ER 453 is that the purchaser can achieve exclusivity only in the sense that the vendor undertakes not to negotiate with a third party for a fixed period . |
| 23 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 24 | Earlier this week , the college announced plans to extend to a second campus either in the Grassmarket or near Leith . |
| 25 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 26 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 27 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 28 | Opposition leaders stated their concern that the PRI would push through an amendment to allow Salinas to run for a second term as president in 1994 . |
| 29 | Another leading Democrat widely perceived as a contender for the party 's next presidential nomination , Governor Mario Cuomo of New York , had announced his intention on June 4 to run for a third term and was automatically nominated as his party 's choice . |
| 30 | SCOTLAND — SCOTLAND have qualified for the last five World Cup finals , but with only one point from two games they already face an uphill struggle to qualify for a sixth time . |