Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven weeks before the opening of the British Empire Exhibition ( where for the first time the King 's speech was transmitted by wireless to every part of the country and many parts of the British Empire ) , the house with every item in place was ready to be presented to both the Queen and the public . |
| 2 | New light on an Old Master is illuminated indeed , and it 's what you will find at Canada House Gallery where for the first time , an almost forgotten body of work by Henri Matisse , relating to his fascination with the Canadian Inuit , has been mounted together with much original source material in the way of Inuit masks , photographs and books which the artist studied . |
| 3 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 4 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 5 | The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity . |
| 6 | Apparently , the owners of the ranch bungalow were suspected of being involved in the exhumation of bodies at two local churches when skulls and other bones were removed , and also the disappearance of three goats on or about the thirteenth of each of the previous three months . |
| 7 | The problem of course with Christology for feminists is that Jesus was a male human being and that thus as a symbol , as the Christ , or as the Second Person of the trinity , it would seem that ‘ God ’ becomes in some way ‘ male ’ . |
| 8 | Important deaths come in special news flashes , or as the first item , not at the end . |
| 9 | This unit will be conducted by Mrs Chris Smith , Pastoral Director at Ushaw , and people are welcome to attend this as a complete course in its own right , or as the first stage in the longer course which contains five further units . |
| 10 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |
| 11 | If you move on or after the 1st April 1991 you will normally lose the reduction although there are certain circumstances when this is not the case . ’ |
| 12 | Sow the seeds in a propagator at 64°F ( 19°C ) in Feb/March , and set out young plants in the garden in late May , or after the last likely frosts in your area . |
| 13 | Percutaneous flexible cholecystoscopy was performed on 19 patients on or after the 10th postprocedural day . |
| 14 | It literally , it literally means produce the body only you ca n't simply , well the difference between a constitutional system and er an arbitrary government is that in arbitrary governments people get arrested and disappear , locked up , throw away the key and worry about it the next generation or after the next er military coup or whatever but in a constitutional government there have to be procedures and one of the safeguards of individual liberty is that if you 're ever arrested and detained by law enforcement agencies you have to be produced before a court within a specified period and charged with something . |
| 15 | This judgement applies to the I- dominant poems ( 88 , 89 ) as to the Thou- dominant ones , such as 35 , where after the first quatrain excusing the Friend 's faults ( ‘ No more be griev 'd at that which thou hast done ’ ) the second suddenly recoils on itself : This is indeed to bring a plea ‘ 'gainst myself ’ , to become an accomplice or ‘ accessory ’ , plunging oneself in ‘ civil war ’ . |
| 16 | It had to me something of the effect that arises from the turning up of the fresh soil , or of the first welcome breath of Spring . |
| 17 | The editing pattern consists of one entry per character position in the destination string : each of these specifies insertion either of a designated character or of the next character from the source string , and this may depend on the sign of the value being converted or on whether the first significant digit has yet been reached . |
| 18 | Any child whose weight is on or below the third centile ( i.e. only three in every hundred children will be this weight at this age ) is very seriously underweight . |
| 19 | Between the 4th and 15th and on or near the 27th you may face some extraordinary turns of events . |
| 20 | In an ongoing study ( A Stewart , D Brenton , personal communication ) of 15 infants conceived under dietary control ( mean phenylalanine values in first trimester 213–496 µmol/l — twice to four times normal ) Griffiths developmental quotients at one year were within the normal range and head circumferences were at or above the 10th centile . |
| 21 | It is important however to dispel the ‘ big push ’ theory of change — that all we need is one last great effort to climb the next hill or round the next corner and we shall then arrive in the promised land of milk , honey and stability ! |
| 22 | Not knowing what lay ahead made him excited and nervous but he could n't help wanting to discover what was behind a door or round the next corner . |
| 23 | Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version . |
| 24 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 25 | Early complications were defined as those occurring during or within the first 72 hours after the procedure and were present in six patients ( 15% ) . |
| 26 | Candidates may not leave an examination until half-an-hour after it has commenced , or within the last ten minutes , except with the permission of the senior invigilator . |
| 27 | So , the final batch of Computex machines were delivered during the last week of August to the Liverpool subcontractor , who promised to deliver the ZX machines on or before the last day of August . |
| 28 | Committee Members are asked to write out two or three questions for the Gardeners Roadshow and give them to Ruth Wilson at or before the next committee meeting . |
| 29 | Committee Members are asked to write out two or three questions for the Gardeners Roadshow and give them to Ruth Wilson at or before the next committee meeting . |
| 30 | Please would you confirm immediately that you will be able to provide this article and some suitable photographs by or before the 31st of December . |