Example sentences of "[prep] or [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a process by which the child ceases to have available any rewards during or just after the production of undesirable behaviour . |
| 2 | Lithotripsy with the piezo electric generator Wolf 2300 is well tolerated , only 7% experienced local pain of moderate intensity during or immediately after the procedure . |
| 3 | To give a text-book example , college students were trained in a situation in which a buzzer was sounded before , after or together with the delivery of a mild electric shock to the finger ( Spooner & Kellogg , 1947 ) . |
| 4 | VOR holding on a DME fix towards or away from a VOR is flown as a normal VOR hold . |
| 5 | This implies that the return flow for velocity fluctuations towards or away from the centre of the wake occurs dominantly in the upstream and downstream directions and little in the transverse ( z and -z ) directions . |
| 6 | Fish being the image into focus in a similar way to a camera , by moving the lens towards or away from the retina . |
| 7 | Fish , squid and octopuses accommodate solely by moving the lens towards or away from the retina . |
| 8 | You should try and keep your balance by moving the knees and hips towards or away from the sail , keeping the shoulders still . |
| 9 | They force us to choose between being a part of or apart from the world of our everyday living . |
| 10 | In the ASE system of nomenclature , the oxidation number of an element in an oxoanion is sometimes used instead of or together with a prefix of suffix . |
| 11 | Your stance is crucial to how you move into or away from the ball . |
| 12 | The aspirations of the knightly class at its best and the sense that Christendom must go over to the offensive against Islam are nowhere more succinctly expressed than in this poem , written when the Christian reconquest of Spain was well under way , but when the crusades had only just begun , shortly before or shortly after the launching of the First Crusade . |
| 13 | From the late 1690s and during the reign of Queen Anne it was common for leading Tory commoners to hold briefing sessions for backbenchers , normally immediately before or just after the beginning of a new session . |
| 14 | Unless the prescribed particulars of the charge are delivered to the Registrar within 21 days of the creation of the charge , it will be void against the administrator , liquidator , or any person who for value acquires an interest in or right over the property subject to the charge . |
| 15 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 16 | He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime . |
| 17 | There are now available drugs which , injected prior to or just after a learning trial , improve retention of the memory ( that is , increase the ‘ savings ’ as defined in Chapter 5 ) in animals tested hours or days subsequently . |
| 18 | Next in the expanding network is Lenin Strasse with assorted communist theoreticians and luminaries awarded a street closer to or further from the centre , depending on how high their star stood at the time . |
| 19 | Until recently , you could sit on a Shetland cliff-top in summer and watch the sea-birds — terns , kittiwakes , gulls , auks and sometimes shag — feeding in concentrated groups on or just under the surface of the sea . |
| 20 | However , many studies are still done on animals at or just below the surface , where dolphin behaviour is usually affected by the presence of the human observer . |
| 21 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 22 | The tendency to leave paid employment at or even before the age of eligibility for state pension may or may not continue into the future . |
| 23 | The persons transferred automatically to the purchaser are all persons employed within the business being sold at or immediately before the time of sale whose contracts would otherwise ( at common law ) have been terminated by the sale . |
| 24 | This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times . |
| 25 | A number of highly conserved glycines and other small residues at the C terminus of GH5 lie at or close to the turn of the β -hairpin , and presumably are required to form the hairpin without steric hindrance . |
| 26 | In all of these proteins , however , the metal is bound at or close to the surface . |
| 27 | During the summer breeding gulls , skuas , terns and cormorants feed close to land ; the rest range widely over the ocean , browsing at or close to the surface in single-species or mixed flocks . |