Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 2 | The enquiry looked at 1208 people who , in the application year ending 31 March 1980 , enquired , submitted application forms or dropped out at the various stages of the process of seeking to be matriculated , as well as those who matriculated and graduated . |
| 3 | Even the closer links with local farmers can not compensate for this , since few farmers and farm workers share their leisure activities or meet socially off the farm . |
| 4 | Even if an agreed definition can be arrived at and some core features identified , it need not be the case that all forms of creative expression demand precisely the same set of mental operations or depend equally upon the same intellectual qualities . |
| 5 | Stress it is which poisons the innocent spangles of daisies , dissonantly warps the song of the idiot birds or leers gibberingly over the useless privet . |
| 6 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the situation is made more complicated by variations in the design : several of the objects have four eyes or nipples instead of the expected two , so there is probably some additional layer of symbolic meaning that has yet to be penetrated . |
| 8 | He said that if I did n't do it he 'd stop me having baths or going out in the cellar . |
| 9 | All those boarded-up shops and only old people about , dreaming on doorsteps or creeping along in the sun . |
| 10 | She could have refused to write that note to her parents or walk obediently to the car and climb into the boot . |
| 11 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 12 | Many wild and evil creatures are spawned in the mountains or drawn there on the winds of magic . |
| 13 | Other options open to the council include reducing the opening hours of all libraries or cutting back on the money it pends on books . |
| 14 | There is likely to be a far greater appreciation of home comforts but there may also be a reluctance to answer the barrage of questions or to say much about the new life . |
| 15 | Laughing at things or sitting together round the table and my dad making jokes and … |
| 16 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 17 | When a Goblin unit breaks or flees past during the turn , there is no need for the Orcs to test for panic . |
| 18 | When a Goblin unit breaks or flees past during the turn , there is no need for the Savage Orcs to test for panic . |
| 19 | Behind the major properties were a number of cottages huddled together in yards or strung out along the lanes . |
| 20 | This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk and the only ways in which this can be avoided are to select defensive ( low beta ) securities or to move out of the equities market into alternative investments or to reduce the market influence by combining equities with the risk-free asset . |
| 21 | It will have instructed the Parliamentary Draftsman on the preparation of the Bill ; he will have drafted it ( though probably not without returning to the department on a number of occasions for clarification of instructions or to point out to the department any legal or constitutional difficulties encountered in implementing the instructions ) . |
| 22 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 23 | Almost all locomotive firemen were slaves , either hired from slave masters or owned directly by the railroad companies . |
| 24 | With regard to secondary benefits , we need worry about secondary benefits or costs only to the extent that market prices fail to reflect marginal costs and benefits . |
| 25 | BY NOT PUTTING YOUR BINS OR SACKS OUT ON THE STREET EARLIER THAN THE EVENING BEFORE COLLECTION DAY |
| 26 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 27 | The reason often lies in an over-eager management who are continually hounding the PRO for more column inches or to keep up with the supposed coverage of competitors . |
| 28 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 29 | The bullets may bounce off the sides of the slits or go plumb through the middle , so that we can not be certain of exactly where they will hit the second screen . |
| 30 | Taxing the benefit , and introducing tighter medical checks will also , says the Government , force many to find jobs or sign back on the dole . |