Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in " in BNC.

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1 I might find the odd partridge fight surviving in Lahore or somewhere in Pakistan , they thought , but not in Delhi .
2 He 's doing well , he had a , , I think he could have been Berlin or somewhere in Germany , it 's called .
3 erm I do n't know if you remember the Esther Rantzen programme , I think three months ago , where they uncovered all sorts of misdeeds at a school in I think it was Cuckham Grange or somewhere in Berkshire .
4 ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent .
5 But the social relations of artists involved partly or wholly in commodity production are in fact highly variable .
6 It will grow into a shrubby bush 3′–4′ tall and looks equally beautiful grown alone or companionably in a border where it will flower away to your heart 's content .
7 If the RC needle moves left or right in the opposite direction from which the wind is coming , then your drift allowance is too large .
8 The question was often a difficult and delicate one given radically different perceptions of what was necessary or right in the changed circumstances , the different styles of polytechnic directors and their senior staffs , different approaches to organizational development .
9 Berkeley infers from this that , lacking experience of such eye-movements , a blind man who gained sight ‘ would , at first , have no idea of distance by sight ; the sun and stars … would all seem to be in his eyes , or rather in his mind ’ .
10 Nowhere is this clearer than in the debate about Europe , or rather in its absence .
11 Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital .
12 ‘ No , in the next field , or rather in the ditch between . ’
13 Hence the strategy of the working class is worked out in terms of the opportunities open to it in a particular situation — or rather in terms of the opportunities that Poulantzas claims would have been open to it had the class itself been quite different .
14 Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you .
15 Industrial development of the Tyne in the nineteenth century involved conflicts over land , or rather in this instance water , rights .
16 Diférance is the force behind , or rather in language ; it produces the effects of difference which make up language .
17 In order to understand the workings of ecclesiastical power , it is necessary to consider it in context , or rather in two contexts ; the relations of a bishop with the king and with the leading figures of the diocese .
18 The congress assessed that the AUCCTU had " failed to protect working people socially or economically in the context of transition to the market " .
19 Not being paid by anybody else , and the housewife , you know , that are not able to leave home , or eventually in a hospital .
20 What I think was true was that the Falklands was not regarded as a front-line issue for some period of time , and indeed the forecast was that it would n't really boil up again until August or thereabouts in 1982 .
21 If you have the country parks and already there is no hunting on those parts open to the public there 's just about another hundred acres , that 's the Victoria Park or thereabouts in total .
22 I only know that in 1990 I had to pay £20,000 or thereabouts in interest repayments alone for a business loan excluding repayment of the mortgage .
23 It will then be paid four-weekly or quarterly in arrears .
24 The great majority of consumers get their fuel on credit , in that they pay monthly or quarterly in arrears , though of course the cost of this credit is not charged separately to them as interest .
25 Fees are normally paid monthly or quarterly in advance , while expenses are charged out each month after invoices from suppliers come in to you .
26 The pitch shifter is particularly impressive , offering a full octave above or below in semitone steps .
27 ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan .
28 Work was good or better in only a third of classes ; in a fifth , it was poor .
29 Applicants should possess : GCE or GCSE passes at grade C or better in Mathematics and three other subjects , at least one of which must be at ‘ A ’ level ( or an equivalent AS level qualification ) ;
30 Applicants should possess : GCE or GCSE passes at grade C or better in Mathematics and three other subjects , at least one of which must be at ‘ A ’ level ( or an equivalent AS level qualification ) ;
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