Example sentences of "[to-vb] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Standing Conference of Principals , the national body which represents colleges like Chester , is to meet to discuss the next move and there are calls to ignore Mr Boswell 's rejection of their case . |
| 2 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 3 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the next hour or so , ’ he told her encouragingly . |
| 5 | The ending of the deadlock means Rechar money will almost immediately be put to use to finance the first phase of a £158m 10-year action plan drawn up by the East Durham Task Force . |
| 6 | It is of course possible to attempt to meet the second objection through the construction of checks and balances , principally through the National Curriculum Council and the Schools Examination and Assessment Council . |
| 7 | It is obviously to the husband 's advantage in such circumstances to seek to persuade the first mortgagee to offer the wife a further advance of sufficient amount to repay the second charge . |
| 8 | Yet in both types of narrative the basic question the writer has to ask to establish the next unit of text is " What happened next ? " |
| 9 | If we are to begin to consider the second part of this question seriously we need to be able to specify what are the ‘ relevant facts of the context of utterance ’ . |