Sentence examples for the 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.

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.

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.

"He will have plans for every eventuality - whether it's for the first ball delivered in a match or if it's to set up a batsman over the course of two or three overs.

Pressed on that eventuality, Ancelotti joked that he would take the first spot kick, before admitting that he had not decided who his penalty takers would be.

In the case of the first reading of 48, the null element refers to the eventuality of playing; in the case of the second reading, the null element refers to Zhangsan.

"You never talk about the eventuality of life-long treatment, never during the first meeting.

After the first Gulf war ten years later, astonished weapons inspectors found Iraq had been working secretly on three different ways to a bomb.Paradoxically, America's NIE raises the alarm about just this sort of eventuality.

After the first storm of the winter, several weeks ago, BAA promised that as the proud owner of some 69 snow-removal machines, it was well prepared for any weather-related eventuality.