Example sentences of "or [verb] [prep] the [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 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | All forms of communication and travel arrangements are stressed now and , although there is bound to be a change of plan early on in the month , what is planned or agreed around the 10th ought to send you merrily on your way . |
5 | On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place . |
6 | The image of hope which had thus arisen in Williamson 's mind was soured by the reality of his second obsession : the sheer horror of his experience on 1 July 1916 , when 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme . |
7 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
8 | All the colleagues I have mentioned so far either abstained or voted against the Second Reading of the Maastricht Bill . |
9 | The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years . |
10 | Compare the the text at the beginning with hers , the the the Middle English text with hers , and tell me , is there anything which she has caught well , or anything which she has missed out , or look at the first sentence , is she right there ? |
11 | You can also use your Card to call up the balance , print-out or order a statement , or look at the last few transactions on your account at one or more of the new AutoBanking machines we are installing up and down the country to help you . |
12 | Clearly these perspectives are not restricted to teacher responses to innovations proposed by others , but can also be used to explain why particular changes are promoted or envisaged in the first place . |
13 | Obviously , if a company makes a new type of computer program which proves to be very successful , other companies will want to bring out their own versions of that type of program in order to gain a share in the market created or stimulated by the first program . |
14 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
15 | This means that initially CD-I may be seen by those either upgrading their CD-A players or buying for the first time , as an added available dimension . |
16 | Salary is paid by the province or state for the first year after which the employer accepts responsibility . |
17 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
18 | The cubs , all between three and seven weeks old , have been found orphaned or abandoned over the last few weeks . |
19 | A more intensively studied pathway is that leading from the cerci or paraprocts through the last abdominal ganglion up ascending giant axons in the ventral nerve cord . |
20 | Design right lasts for 15 years from the end of the calendar year in which it was first recorded in a design document ( which includes storage in a computer ) or an article was made to the design , unless articles have been made available for sale or hire within the first five years in which case the right lasts only a further 10 years . |
21 | In May 1990 the privatization of 28 heavily indebted industrial companies was announced ; another 21 would be liquidated and 200 industrial companies controlled by Greek banks would be sold or liquidated at the next stage of privatization . |
22 | Following blast at its offices at Charlemont Place in Armagh , spokesman Paul Jackson said students should not telephone the board or call for the next two weeks until the backlog of work has been cleared . |
23 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
24 | There was no room for Haydn or Hume in the eighteenth century , for Verdi or even Dostoevsky in the nineteenth . |
25 | In the same year an Act was passed declaring that from henceforth the boundaries of all the royal forests should be taken to extend no further than those ‘ commonly reputed , used or taken in the twentieth year of the reign of James I [ 1622–23 ] . |
26 | It was also a triumph over the devil , who was thought to be particularly active at death-beds , either gloating over the sinner who was about to fall into his clutches , or trying at the last moment to snatch a soul in the throes of fear or doubt . |
27 | Everyone has a smile and we all wanted to tell what we had done that day or planned for the next . |
28 | AMERICA 'S utilities have enough capacity , either on line or planned in the next decade , to accommodate 40 million electric vehicles . |
29 | ( 4 ) An applicant shall not be treated as having failed to comply with subsection ( 2 ) ( b ) above if the notice is , without any fault or intention of his , removed , obscured or defaced before the first day of the meeting of the board at which the application is to be considered , so long as he has taken reasonable steps for its protection and , if need be , replacement . |
30 | Refrain from finalising important transactions until after Mercury turns to direct motion on the 18th , even though what is offered or suggested around the 4th and 11th appears to fulfil your requirements . |