Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 17.48 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a range of forms including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , chronological accounts , pamphlets , book reviews , advertisements , comic strips , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Building on experiences of a range of different stories that they have read and heard , and/or through discussion of their work with the teacher or their peers , pupils should learn to handle the following elements of story structure with increasing effectiveness : an opening , setting , characters , events and a resolution .
2 Moreover , the claimant who has been successful in a case like the one in which the SCC judgement was rendered can bring an action for compensation of any additional financial damage sustained and/or for compensation for injury to feeling .
3 Most of lowland Britain is intensively cultivated ; upland areas tend to be used for sheep farming and/or for game ( grouse , deer etc. ) as well as for other recreational activities .
4 A common question is whether people should be tested before vaccination for existing immunity to HBV and/or after inoculation to determine whether the vaccination was successful .
5 At the beginning of October , the State Education Commission issued a statement calling on all provincial education departments and universities under its jurisdiction to forbid students to ‘ engage in business on or off campus for the purpose of getting rich ’ ( CD 7. 10. 1988 ) .
6 At the end of it , I was tired but glad , making camp after twenty-three miles , the farthest I had managed on or off tarmac .
7 Er the European Market is mostly either on or off highway .
8 A shoe with an outsole profile to suit a variety of surfaces , both on or off road .
9 Any course of instruction , carried out on or off site , directed by your Library Department , your Local Authority/Board , or any other external organization .
10 Most important , the service is tailored to meet your needs , on or off site .
11 It must have , er have n't got all that worse then , here 's Tufnell comes up again , slightly faster than the other one , hits him on the pad or bit of that pad maybe , Robin Smith 's very close in there and once or twice he 's dived , he 's never quite sure whether off the pad or off bat and pad , everybody shouts at him poor chap , anyhow , catch it , a hundred and eighteen for three end of that one from Tufnell so he 's now bowled fifteen overs , two for seventeen that one was yet another maiden .
12 However , the Mondays ' tour manager Muzzer dashed these allegations : ‘ Shaun has n't touched drugs on this tour , neither on or off stage . ’
13 Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty .
14 In deciding whether police services are ‘ special ’ the court will take into account : ( 1 ) whether the officers are required to attend on private premises or in a public place ; ( 2 ) whether violence has already occurred or is imminent — if so , the services can not be ‘ special ’ ; ( 3 ) the nature of the event — public events like elections lie at one end of the spectrum , private events like weddings at the other , and events like football matches somewhere in the middle ; ( 4 ) whether protection can be provided without using officers who would otherwise be on other duties or off duty .
15 Were you on duty at home or off duty at home ?
16 In addition , it can be exercised where , during antecedent negotiations , there were oral representations made irrespective of whether they were concluded on or off business premises ( s67 ) .
17 Note the turntable ( minus stockade ) , now installed on the Keithley & Worth Valley Railway .
18 Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
19 THE KEIGHLEY & Worth Valley Railway announces three alterations to its programme of special events that will be of interest to all steam railway enthusiasts .
20 In 1968 the newly formed ‘ Keighley & Worth Valley Light Railway Limited , ’ a limited liability company with ten ‘ worker directors ’ agreed with British Rail to purchase the five-mile-long Keighley to Oxenhope branch line in West Yorkshire for the sum of £45,000 at a fixed annual repayment over 25 years .
21 BBC TELEVISION 'S premier religious programme Songs of Praise was recorded on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway at the end of October .
22 THE KEIGHLEY & Worth Valley Railway started taking bookings for its Santa Special services on 1 September and by the close of business on Wednesday September 9th 40% of seats had been sold .
23 Under this practice it is not possible to draw any meaningful distinction between ‘ formal ’ or ‘ informal ’ service , or between service ‘ accepted voluntarily ’ and ‘ enforced ’ service .
24 And problems do not only occur in individual relationships — think of the difficulties between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland or between black and white in South Africa .
25 So — regarding whether or not someone chooses among credit types , or between credit and cash — having a bank account may partly be seen as shorthand for a collection of other characteristics to do with income and social background which may be influential in themselves .
26 Not only is maternal age interrelated with parity or birth order and , through parity , with family size but the latter also with another demographic variable , i.e. the intervals between successive births ( or between pregnancies or between termination of a pregnancy and the next conception ) .
27 The accused would not be present , and misunderstandings sometimes arose between judge and counsel , or between counsel and client , resulting in the accused often receiving a sentence which they thought they had not bargained for .
28 Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax .
29 lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) .
30 It is in this family that the child is taught to make basic distinctions between self and others , or between male and female , to acquire and to use language , and to develop a framework through which to understand , interpret and evaluate the world outside .
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