Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Wind/U , a complete set of Windows APIs operating under Motif that Bristol wrote , is currently in beta and will ship in in the fourth quarter priced at $50,000 per product license . |
| 3 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 4 | They were watching the camp pack away for the last time before it moved on without them . |
| 5 | His side were not particularly inept on Saturday they were beaten by a side who would probably survive comfortably in the Second Division . |
| 6 | Marvellously played , the work might well yield more on a second hearing . |
| 7 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 8 | But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | So er that has to just wait now until the next meeting . |
| 10 | THEY , I predict , will fall back on the last line of defence . |
| 11 | ‘ The funds are currently being invested in our bogus companies ; their value will fall dramatically over the next six months . ’ |
| 12 | A two-run defeat seemed set fair to demoralize England , but their batsmen did not do badly in the second game at Sydney . |
| 13 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 14 | To her mistress it was understandable that she should never speak absolutely freely but it was intolerable that she could not do so to the last remaining member of her family , nor even to her husband . |
| 15 | I shall do so for the last time . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 17 | It is not that she believes this evolving female corporate future has yet been reflected by numbers of women employed at senior levels but that it is inevitable it will do so during the next decade . |
| 18 | If God can make matter think in this world , and give us material ‘ souls ’ , he can do so in the next . |
| 19 | Since only adults set up households , all those who will do so in the next 15 years are alive now , and we can estimate accurately how many will actually be alive in each age group — except perhaps for the oldest age groups — for at least that period ahead . |
| 20 | The guidance will bring together for the first time all the relevant existing guidance into one statement and has already been the subject of previous consultation in a green paper . |
| 21 | The above example also shows how reported speech may carry over into a second sentence without any reinforcing signal . |
| 22 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 23 | The makers of mains signalling equipment hope that business will grow rapidly in the next few years . |
| 24 | So you can allocate up to a third . |
| 25 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 26 | erm , you do n't give up at the first little hurdle . |
| 27 | What would they do out of the second pizza ? |
| 28 | October plantings make small plants which do not crop well until the second year . |
| 29 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |
| 30 | Now fitted with the superior 2.9-litre engine , the latest cars will depreciate heavily in the first year — 48 per cent falls are the norm . |