Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest ranking muderrises-those at the Suleymaniye medreses -go to certain named kadiliks such as Damascus and Aleppo , for example , while the muderrises of the next two lower classes — the and the — may choose either to take up kadiliks such as those of Jerusalem , Baghdad and Filibe , or to go to the next higher rank of medrese . |
| 2 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 3 | The greasy impression made by the special typewriter ribbon or special pen rejects the water and takes the ink , and the positive image is ‘ offset ’ or transferred to a second roller and is picked up in reverse . |
| 4 | ‘ By 1976 , the Government decided it had to act and that led to the first TV campaign with the line ‘ Do n't take your car for a drink ’ . ’ |
| 5 | It was this that led to the first hints of how the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity might affect each other — a glimpse of the shape of a quantum theory of gravity yet to come . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw him on the television the other night it was his run and cross down the left that led to the first goal against England . |
| 7 | Since we must have some way of linking each component to the next one in the structure , each component must contain a link or pointer that points to the next component in the structure . |
| 8 | Though I do not desire to stray into fields where others here are expert , I must point out that according to the first chapter of Genesis the world was so constituted from the beginning that good and evil were created together in it , and also that the knowledge of them existed before mankind . |
| 9 | That is , I think , a somewhat tendentious description of the classic realist novel , and , in fact , writers like E. M. Forster , D. H. Lawrence , Ernest Hemingway , Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene have written fiction that answers to the twentieth century 's sense of moral and philosophical crisis without deviating violently from the conventions of classic realism . |
| 10 | This was anticipated that there would be some add-on to the report that came to the last committee . |
| 11 | Descent is made southwards over a pathless moor to a depression containing a small tarn and a wall that rises to the next height , Swarth Fell . |
| 12 | Sometimes you might have a vision for an entire song and sometimes the vision is just for a particular part that relates to the next particular part . ’ |
| 13 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |
| 14 | Of the 12 games that went to the 18th hole during the course of the match overall , only one was won by an American and , as matters got tighter and tighter , the home team got worse and worse . |
| 15 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 16 | They moved cautiously along a dimly-lit passage until they reached the steep narrow ladder that descended to the next level . |
| 17 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 18 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 19 | The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . " |
| 20 | Jaime Collins is nine and belongs to the 4th Harold Hill Pack in Essex . |
| 21 | But technical descriptions only indicate the positions through which the feet and legs should move and at which moment they should co-ordinate with the arms as weight is transferred from one step and pose to the next . |
| 22 | The synoptic outline might have been more serviceable had it been separated from the list of languages and moved to the first volume . |
| 23 | Partly this is a matter of time and related to the first problem discussed above . |
| 24 | Second , and related to the first point , the model of man as a violent animal — and hence self-seeking and violent in the pursuit of attaining his goals — is useful as a justification for authority and institutions of authority . |
| 25 | Finally , and related to the fourth point , they were expensive ( as measured by normal library expenditure on user education ) . |
| 26 | I sat with one eye on the clock , waiting my turn and listening to the twenty-fifth rendering of ‘ My Way ’ . |
| 27 | She had n't done that she said since she was my age and came to the last page of Le Rouge et le Noir . |
| 28 | He three-putted both the fourth and 12th holes , had only two birdies on his card , and came to the last hole needing a four for a 73 for a ten under par total of 278 . |
| 29 | Upon his decision ( or decisions , for the opportunity may arise more than once ) rests the ability of the spirit to learn that lesson and to progress to the next stage in its development . |
| 30 | With few exceptions , such as franchising in hotels and fast foods , where the service can be ‘ packaged ’ and transferred to a third party under stringent conditions of control , most service firms find that they require equity control to ‘ internalise ’ the gains and recoup the high costs of developing the network in the first place . |