Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Labour councillors want a review to begin next year . |
| 2 | DARREN ANDERTON has given Tottenham 's walking wounded a boost by launching a bid to join next week 's Coca-Cola Cup crusade at Nottingham Forest . |
| 3 | Journalists can not claim to be above the law , but what they can claim , in every country which takes free speech seriously , is a right to publish first , and take the risk of conviction afterwards . |
| 4 | You had a job to open last night did n't you Ralph ? |
| 5 | A meeting to decide next year 's budget is formally about just that — fixing the budget . |
| 6 | As the Earl lay close to death , they called in a clergyman to rid 16th Century Althorp House of the phantom . |
| 7 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |
| 8 | Water safety demonstrations will also take place and there will be a chance to learn first aid and resuscitation techniques as well as enjoying lake cruises and illustrated talks . |
| 9 | But if this colt was beaten today , he would certainly not be the first winter favourite for a Classic to flop first time out as a three-year-old . |
| 10 | That it impinged as a call to slaughter first and foremost seems only too clear ; for the first result of the preaching of the crusade was a fearful massacre of the one species of ‘ infidel ’ within easy reach . |
| 11 | It is , indeed , quite a common occurrence for a government to have second thoughts about a Bill during or after its progress through the Commons and to use its supporters in the House of Lords to make the changes in a Bill then seen to be desirable . |
| 12 | He is working on a scheme with the National Federation of WI to organise a competition to celebrate next year 's 75th anniversary by offering 10 telecottages as prizes for its 9,000 branches and he is hoping the WI will establish a pilot telecottage near its college in Denman , Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | Quite a lot to eat last night . |
| 14 | When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well . |
| 15 | He suggested that a tendency to report first the material entering the right ear might allow information from the left ear to decay in short term memory and thus give rise to the observed superiority of the right ear . |