Sentence examples for first eventuality from inspiring English sources

I say all this to pre-empt ill-fortune: I'm still hopeful that the first eventuality I outlined will prevail, that a combination of inadvertent tactical voting and aesthetic justice will mean triumph for Steve McQueen's remarkable and, I think, historic film.

Should the second eventuality prove to be the case, the president would be able to stave off awkwardness at the state dinner by giving the cue for another medley from Tony Bennett.

In the case of most SmallCap companies, the equivalent of the third eventuality would be to shut the doors.

As for the structure of predicative V-DE constructions, let us first examine eventuality V-DE constructions exemplified by 43a.

But if King William wants to forestall that dire eventuality, a good first step would be to issue a Royal proclamation (with Parliament's approval, of course) designating "Jerusalem" as the official British national anthem.

My advice to young professionals making their first presentation: prepare for every eventuality.

For such V-DE constructions, there are no RVC counterparts as well because for all true RVCs the second component of the compound denotes the result caused by the eventuality expressed by the first element.

January was the UK's fourth-sunniest since 1929, an eventuality well within the confines of normality, as was the snowy, frosty interlude at the start of February.

This serves to remind the British people of the pain and suffering that came from the defeat endured by the King's Army, and to prepare younger generations of English men for the eventuality of a second battle in which the Crown retakes what is rightfully British land.

In this case, the distinction between entity-predicative and eventuality-predicative V-DE constructions nicely captures Li and Thompson's intuition as to the ambiguity in examples like 48, in which the first reading arises from an eventuality-predicative V-DE construction and the second one from an entity-predicative V-DE construction.

Our first clue that these two eventualities are interrelated arises from the prognosis that asystole invariably takes place, after a time lag, on diagnosis of brain stem death [5].