Example sentences of "[noun] or [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 2 | But it was already obvious that the horn blast had come from elsewhere entirely — not from the Halfling camp or even from the human regiments of the Empire army , but from the fierce goblin Wolf Riders who were hacking and biting at will as Halflings ran hither and thither in blind panic . |
| 3 | The evidence for increased transmitter release is strongest for STP , that is from a few seconds to an hour or so after the inductive event . |
| 4 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 5 | An hour or so in the best of company , the bar is open , and all for £3 — what more can we do ? |
| 6 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 7 | Their masters were either dead or absent in a concentration camp , in the Polish army in the West or else in the underground army . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , for the traditional printing and graphic arts industries , the desktop publishing ‘ revolution ’ has taken place largely outside their control and has placed the capability to generate complex artwork directly in the hands of anyone with access to a computer and around £1,000 or less for the necessary software . |
| 9 | It can take effect immediately , but it usually takes twenty minutes or so for the full effects to be felt . |
| 10 | After that , the manager went through the procedure adopted : a telephone call to the reference number cited ; verification of credit card ; verification of driving licence ; verification of home address ( the last three usually completed within ten minutes or so on the International Information Computer ) ; preparation , presentation , and signing of the contract ( including appropriate insurance clauses ) ; then , paperwork now completed , the car brought round to the outer forecourt , with an assistant to give the client a quick run-over of the controls , and to hand over the keys . |
| 11 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 12 | Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end |
| 13 | When played f or ff in the ordinary way ( unmuted ) the tone is broad , sonorous , and noble . |
| 14 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 15 | Most country and metropolitan district councils in England and Wales hold definitive maps , and you can ask to see them at council offices or sometimes at the public library . |
| 16 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
| 17 | He has recovered his form superbly after a broken finger threatened his career last season , and England boss Graham Taylor said : ‘ Sometimes when you 're with a Second Division club or out in the far North East you can feel forgotten . |
| 18 | Three or four pamphlets and books have attacked ‘ the pernicious myth of monarchy ’ , but serious discussion of the usefulness or otherwise of the royal family has been driven out by simpering nonsense from a pack of tabloid reporters who devote their not inconsiderable imaginations to dreaming up new twists to a comic-strip family drama with a cast-list now augmented by half-a-dozen non-royal spouses and their families . |
| 19 | Venture capitalists ' optimism or otherwise about the medium and longer term tends to be governed to a degree by the number and quality of the deals on offer . |
| 20 | No other person has reported an interest of 3% or more in the ordinary shares . |
| 21 | You can contact me at St. Luke 's at Ely or here at the Old Rectory . |
| 22 | A recovery process must take place : in the home , the pub or elsewhere in the surrounding locality . |
| 23 | Charles Roe had , in places , taken his mine down some 188 feet or so below the old 17C. workings , themselves about 181 ft. deep from surface ; and had worked along the strike of the Bonsor Vein for perhaps 150 fathoms . |
| 24 | Again , though the validity of this proposition is beyond dispute , its relevance to the debate on the desirability or otherwise of the European currency union is less than obvious . |
| 25 | Are the hours you spend travelling , at work or away from the only chair that suits you made a misery because of BACK AND SCIATIC PAIN ? |
| 26 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 27 | More probable is a trade sale to existing mining companies or back to the generating companies , which is quite a common practice in the rest of the world . |
| 28 | Just a couple of miles from San Gimignano on the road to Certaldo , a turning on the left leads on amidst fields , olive groves and vineyards for a further mile and a half or so to the tiny hamlet of Pancole . |
| 29 | At some later time they could , by chance , all be in the right half or back in the left half , but it is overwhelmingly more probable that there will be roughly equal numbers in the two halves . |
| 30 | This is in part because different investigators have held different ideas as to the independence or otherwise of the different sub-types of dyspraxia or as to the essential nature of the various defects . |