Example sentences of "or [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Er the European Market is mostly either on or off highway . |
| 4 | A shoe with an outsole profile to suit a variety of surfaces , both on or off road . |
| 5 | Any course of instruction , carried out on or off site , directed by your Library Department , your Local Authority/Board , or any other external organization . |
| 6 | Most important , the service is tailored to meet your needs , on or off site . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | However , the Mondays ' tour manager Muzzer dashed these allegations : ‘ Shaun has n't touched drugs on this tour , neither on or off stage . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Were you on duty at home or off duty at home ? |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thus , the fact that in the UK parts of the City control parts of manufacturing industry , and that within firms ( and also between them ) there are hierarchical divisions of labour , between levels of management , for instance , or between management and the shop-floor , or between professional/scientific workers and manual workers , or between sectors , means that there is inequality structured into the division of labour . |
| 22 | For not only is maintenance now much less frequent , all scheduled depot attention is given at night or at weekends or between peak diagrams . |
| 23 | I have already mentioned the common reference in the media to conflicts between the evangelical and secular elements in the DUP , or between Church and Party , and I have argued that such a simple distinction does not accurately describe the situation . |
| 24 | Sometimes specific intermolecular complexes are formed , either between two sample molecules or between sample and solvent molecules . |
| 25 | A class inter is also defined , for elements such as lists which can appear either within or between chunk elements . |
| 26 | The unpulsed sounds seem to relate to times of heightened excitement , such as during feeding , when stranded or in a state of distress or alarm , or between mother and newborn calf . |
| 27 | The heart of effective management is communication , whether between partners and employees or between line managers and subordinates . |
| 28 | But these lists are not organized in any way other than regionally ; the methods of dialectology do not address themselves to variation within a single region between the sexes , or between status groups or generation cohorts . |
| 29 | Few historians today would argue that there was a close link between Calvinism and the rise of capitalism , or between Puritanism and a parliamentary ‘ opposition ’ to the crown during the reigns of Elizabeth and James . |
| 30 | The correlation between smoking the lung cancer is well known , and is usually interpreted in a causal manner : can we interpret the equally strong correlations between eating meat and cancer of the large intestine , or between sugar and breast cancer along similar causal lines ? |