Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A French term , used in poetry to indicate the carrying over of the sense from one line or couplet to the next . |
| 2 | The tenant may wish to dispense with 7.6.3 , 7.6.4 , 7.6.5 and 7.6.6 and add the following proviso to 7.6.2 : If for any reason the premises and all other relevant parts of the centre sufficient for the Tenant [ or any undertenant ] to carry on its [ or their ] normal trade and business including the means of access to the Premises and all essential services therein and thereto shall not be reinstated in accordance with the provisions of this clause as they were at the date of the relevant destruction or damage by the second anniversary of the date of the destruction or damage the Tenant may thereafter determine the Term by giving not less than one month 's notice to the Landlord and upon expiry of such notice the Term shall cease but without prejudice to the claim of either party for any earlier breach of covenant by the other This will doubtless be resisted by the landlord who will wish to have the unilateral right to terminate . |
| 3 | The pacts or concordats of the mid-twelfth century exhibited the popes ' worries . |
| 4 | People who had lived in old people 's homes were less likely than others who died to have gone into a hospital or hospice during the last year of their lives or to die in one . |
| 5 | Applicants holding GCE A-level passes of sufficiently high standard in appropriate subjects may be offered exemption from all or part of the first year of most honours degree courses ; indeed such opportunities may also be available to applicants offering other qualifications . |
| 6 | There are only a few detailed pollen diagrams from the Outer Hebrides that cover all or part of the last 10,000 years , the so-called post-glacial . |
| 7 | The above examples indicate that if the amounts to be added are expressed in different units ( £ or p in the second and third questions above ) then the question becomes much harder for the bottom and middle third pupils and even for those in the top third in the last example . |
| 8 | Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident . |
| 9 | Lois will only make a profit or loss under the second strategy when there are changes in relative prices . |
| 10 | Our marine insurance covers such damage or loss after the first £320 . |
| 11 | There had n't been a Friday or Saturday in the last year which had n't been occupied by some social gathering , where he 'd mingled with Vanessa 's friends . |
| 12 | DEC claims its UK workstation business will grow at a compound annual rate of 2% or 3% for the next few years , and ambitiously predicts its will overhaul Sun to become market leader by 1995/96 . |
| 13 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 14 | A named community , village , town , church or school in the UK or Ireland linking with a named community , village , town , project area or institution in the Third World , both in partnership with Christian Aid , having a link with the purpose of learning more about each other . |
| 15 | One could always spell it out : " The final word or words of a clause or sentence repeated as the first word or words of the next clause or sentence " ; and only use anadiplosis if the regularity of the feature required the economy of a label . |
| 16 | ( or smartdrv.exe as the first command in AUTOEXEC.BAT if you 're using Windows 3.1 ) . |
| 17 | Then an individualised reintroduction programme was designed for each patient , usually starting with rice or potato and lamb or chicken on the first week . |
| 18 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 19 | That led to the Royal arms we know today — England or Scotland in the first and fourth quarters , Ireland in the third quarter and Scotland or England in the second . |
| 20 | If , on the other hand , he refuses to accept this relationship and responds from his own adult ( Y ) on a ‘ do n't talk to me like that ’ basis to the adult or child of the first individual , this is a new stimulus and the transaction has broken down . |
| 21 | That led to the Royal arms we know today — England or Scotland in the first and fourth quarters , Ireland in the third quarter and Scotland or England in the second . |
| 22 | The third round of the bilateral talks stage of the Middle East peace negotiations , held in Washington on Jan. 13-16 , ended with no agreement having been reached on the date or venue of the next round of bilateral negotiations [ for second round of bilateral talks in Washington in December , see p. 38693 ] . |
| 23 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 24 | However , if England do progress beyond the opening round — and with the first two from each group plus the four best third-placed teams going through , it is going to take some wretched performances to fail — they will then travel to Bologna , Genoa or Turin for the second phase , with the prospect of visits to Naples , Rome or Florence in the quarter-finals . |
| 25 | Swindon Town will be at home to Manchester City or Reading in the Fourth Round if they can beat Queens Park Rangers in the Third Round … that tie kicks off in an hours time in London … |
| 26 | She sat demurely on the edge of one of the room 's more nondescript-looking chairs , knowing that this Josie , whoever she might be , would be her key to success or failure over the next few hours and maybe even the coming days . |
| 27 | ( b ) The other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , the actor is related to the victim by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or the actor is in a position of authority over the victim and used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 28 | ( b ) That other person is at least 13 but less than 16 years of age and the actor is a member of the same household as the victim , or is related by blood or affinity to the fourth degree to the victim , or is in a position of authority over the victim and the actor used this authority to coerce the victim to submit . |
| 29 | The presence or absence of the first oral tentacle scale is denoted by + or -t . |
| 30 | Then , in the fixed-point binary format , the presence or absence of a bit at the ith bit position indicates the presence or absence of the ith power of two in the numeric value held . |