future event
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffutureandevent
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future
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈfjuː.tʃər/us/ˈfjuː.tʃɚ/
happening or existing in ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition offutureandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffuture event
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The first of these states is that a 'futureeventoccurs for which the conserved indigenous breed is important'.
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But this means that prior to creation nofutureeventof this universe was theologically necessary.
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And if this is the case, the deity could not have known that anyfutureeventof this universe would happen (including ' physically necessary ' ones).
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To be sure, it would be odd to describe thisfutureeventas part of the world's history.
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At some earlier time, the deity actively decides how to act in the face of knowledge of somefutureevent.
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This, united to the directionality inherent in to, created a reference to afutureeventin the resulting (now verb-based) construction.
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This ring-fencing of a sum in anticipation of afutureeventindicates that the family had initiated a long-term financial strategy.
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In this case, however, the interpretation is not that of a past counterfactual, because the reference is made to afutureevent.
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Accurate prediction of afutureeventcan only be based on how similar events took place in the past.
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Suppose that there is somefutureeventthat is physically certain to occur as long as the deity does not disrupt the future causal chain.
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How undesirable an unplanned pregnancy is depends both upon how costly thefutureeventis seen to be and how likely it is thought to be.
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Similarly, the notion of current activity leading to afutureeventis - when it is recovered - part of the proposition expressed, and is also difficult to cancel.
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Clearly, if the agent is in the process of progressing towards a goal, the agent is engaged in some current activity leading to afutureevent.
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If, as seems likely, both child and adult are talking about afutureevent, then the functional equivalence of child and adult structures should be easily apprehended by the child.
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Suppose that there is somefutureeventthat is physically certain to occur as long as no free agent disrupts the future causal chain.
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The context of the experiment discussed in the present paper is different : the children were asked to construct a continuation for a hypotheticalfutureeventor state.
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This happens in cases where the agent does not have the power to bring about the non-occurrence of thefutureevent(fact) constitutive of the relevant soft fact.
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It is a problematical, speculativefutureevent, and for that he is to take an extra £800,000 this year.
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The first is that a false statement about afutureeventneeds to be false when it is made.
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