Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fish being the image into focus in a similar way to a camera , by moving the lens towards or away from the retina . |
| 6 | Fish , squid and octopuses accommodate solely by moving the lens towards or away from the retina . |
| 7 | You should try and keep your balance by moving the knees and hips towards or away from the sail , keeping the shoulders still . |
| 8 | They force us to choose between being a part of or apart from the world of our everyday living . |
| 9 | At the top of the backswing , note how the left shoulder has turned and is now in front of and slightly underneath the chin . |
| 10 | The leaves are turned , alternately , towards and away from the centre of the mosaic , as in the scrolls of mosaics B and C , North Hill . |
| 11 | Another part of Colette 's method of making round , making substantial , is her habit of moving backwards and forwards , towards and away from the object . |
| 12 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 13 | At that time , during and just after the war , Highgate was an area in which a number of scientific and academic people lived . |
| 14 | Though punctuated by frequent flash-backs to the period before , during and just after the war , temporal progression in the present is clearly marked by the development of two narrative lines which weave their ways in and out of the novel . |
| 15 | East London during and just after the war is lovingly portrayed , with an eye and ear for detail which strike a nostalgic chord . |
| 16 | Having mastered all aspects of the department 's work , Oldman rose rapidly through its senior ranks during and just after the war . |
| 17 | In the chemicals and electrical engineering industries multidivisional enterprises such as ICI and Associated Electrical Industries carried out large investment programmes — the chemicals industry stimulated by the removal of German competition during and shortly after the war combined with a world shortage of chemicals , and electrical engineering stimulated by the rapid growth of electricity generation under Citrine ( Shonfield , 1958 ) . |
| 18 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 19 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |
| 20 | A far larger number of sets were in use than licence figures would suggest , but during and especially at the outset of the campaign for independence the number of newspaper readers exceeded that of radio listeners . |
| 21 | It is the failure to do so that often makes such programmes both unrealistic and ineffective to participants both during and certainly after the event . |
| 22 | The heaving fluid was not cold , as it had looked , but slightly warm , as if somewhere at the centre there might be a heart , and veins , and lungs to breathe with … |
| 23 | Your stance is crucial to how you move into or away from the ball . |
| 24 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In retrospect it is quite clear that , despite the various ( and for the most part ill-defined ) policy proclamations issued by the 26th July Movement both before and immediately after the revolution , Castro wanted his revolution to instigate radical social change in Cuba . |
| 30 | The years before and immediately after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 were unsettling for experimental painters . |