Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] [be] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one had ever raised a hand to her in anger , and woe betide him if he should decide to be the first man to try . |
| 2 | Profound disappointment and frustration , however , awaited those — especially in Britain — who hoped that American involvement in the First World War might prove to be the first step towards an on-going partnership . |
| 3 | I used to dream of being the next John McEnroe . |
| 4 | The Foundation would appear to be the first of its kind in Britain , where the art world has long bemoaned the paucity of private beneficence of this kind . |
| 5 | Yet such a solution would appear to be the last stage in the process of experimentation/disguise previously discussed . |
| 6 | I would like to be the first male editor of Vogue . |
| 7 | According to the rules there would have to be a second ballot . |
| 8 | This would have to be the last mountain . |
| 9 | In the absence of a ticket to San Francisco they felt that London would have to be the next best thing . |
| 10 | In 1380 it had been the turn of Thomas , earl of Buckingham , uncle of Richard II , to lead what would prove to be the last English expedition to France in the fourteenth century , while in 1383 the religious divisions of Europe were underlined by the sending of a force led by Henry Despenser , bishop of Norwich , into Flanders under the guise of a crusade . |
| 11 | RECEIVERS were yesterday appointed to the brewing businesses of the Australian yachting tycoon , Mr Alan Bond , in what may prove to be the first step towards the world 's largest corporate collapse . |
| 12 | Inhibition of MAO-B is also of topical interest since this may prove to be the first manoeuvre that has slowed the progression of Parkinson 's disease ; the mechanism is uncertain but it was originally thought of because this approach blocked the toxicity of the selective dopaminergic poison , MPTP . |
| 13 | ‘ It is plainly in the interests of the more efficient administration of justice that there should be split trials in appropriate cases , as even where the decision on the first part of a split trial is such that there will have to be a second part , it may be desirable that the decision shall be appealed before incurring the possibly unnecessary expense of the second part . |
| 14 | But at least her psychosis gave students of English literature and social history a book which can claim to be the first extant long prose narrative in the English language , and the first autobiography by a psychotic personality . |
| 15 | He adds : ‘ If you long for the day when Britain can claim to be the first mainly Afro-Asian part of Europe , vote Conservative or Europe . ’ |