Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On land , where for the most part rocks are not built up by deposition but broken down by erosion , deposits , such as sand dunes , are only very rarely created and preserved . |
| 2 | The strength can be 6:1 , or for the most durable surface , 3:1 may be used . |
| 3 | Then because of the reputation the area got for the blues or for the so called red light area , you get people coming in from out of town , which then brought it 's own problems with it . |
| 4 | If you feel like a gentle lakeside stroll Grasmere Lake is to hand , or for the more energetic , Helvellyn , the most climbed peak in England , rises Up only a short distance from the village . |
| 5 | And when you tire of that , how about hiring a mountain bike and cycling through real mountains , or for the more traditional , cantering out through meadows and forest on horse-back . |
| 6 | If the only way to give the drama momentum is to allow through ( 1 ) an emergence of crude competition between the teacher and pupils or through the even cruder ‘ I 'm the baddy not to be trusted ’ approach of ( 4 ) , then she may have to abandon altogether her intention to open up ( 2 ) , the recognition by the townsfolk that here is an official who can not know and indeed who does not want to know what the cost of this decision will be to those of us who are faced with it . |
| 7 | The hard part is getting the beam to the target , either through thousands of kilometres of space , or through the inherently uncooperative atmosphere . |
| 8 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |
| 9 | But what are we to make of the evidence which suggests that working class wives rarely knew what their husbands earned , or enjoyed sex , or of the probably greater incidence of violence between spouses ? |
| 10 | Despite press coverage of closures and cut-backs , real and imagined , there was no mention of the dispersals , or of the more worrying phenomenon of the general dissolution of libraries that seemed from local evidence to be taking place . |
| 11 | Being both eminent authors and psychotic persons our sample is scarcely representative , either of writers or of the mentally ill and therefore can not , by itself , stand as evidence for the supposed connection between creativity and insanity . |
| 12 | The latest official figures ( for 1985 ) released by the Government show that just over 35 per cent of older people were living on incomes at or below the generally accepted Income Support ( then Supplementary Benefit ) poverty line , compared with 10 per cent of people under pension age . |
| 13 | Shirts , for instance , had always been white or with the most discreet of stripes . |
| 14 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 15 | She had lied and deceived , she had painted her lips with toxic red paint from a box of water colours or with the less toxic red dye of rationed Smarties , she had darkened her lashes with shoe polish and perfumed herself with sample offers of cheap perfume solicited through sycophantic correspondence with cosmetic manufacturers . |
| 16 | This was also the heyday of the pleasure garden , where in the pleasantly pastoral atmosphere of Marylebone , Vauxhall and Ranelagh , the public were treated to promenades , food , firework displays and all manner of other entertainments , naturally including music — such as the works of the best Continental symphonists , songs , little theatrical performances , and organ concertos . |
| 17 | Guests stay in either the main building ( with lift ) , where bedrooms are traditionally furnished and have a balcony , or in the newly renovated , more modern , villa annexe ( nearer the road ) . |
| 18 | In other parts of Britain such ideas were more difficult to put across except to relatively small minorities or in the predominantly proletarian areas of central Scotland where miners , engineers and shipbuilders also constituted the majority of wage earners . |
| 19 | Workers lived in insanitary and overcrowded rented rooms and cellars where family life was impossible , or in the most spartan and soulless dormitory blocks thrown up by employers . |
| 20 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 21 | Accommodation is in the five-star Meridien or the four-star Tichka , both in the new town ( a five-minute cab ride or an interesting 40-minute walk to the old city centre ) or in the truly de luxe Mamounia within the city walls . |
| 22 | But this equitable separate estate existed only where it was created by a will or settlement , or in the comparatively rare cases where the Court of Chancery exercised its jurisdiction to compel a husband to make a settlement upon his wife . |
| 23 | The Law Society takes virtually no interest in these matters , or in the too frequent instances of gross negligence or dilatoriness by solicitors in dealing with their clients ' affairs . |
| 24 | In the wind , the fire , the earthquake , or in the still , small voice . ’ |
| 25 | Enterprise rooms are either in the gasthof itself , or in the very attractive ‘ Landhaus ’ directly opposite , which has a pleasant traditionally furnished reception-cum-lounge area . |
| 26 | Most pupils will also enjoy an active presentation of plays and poetry , treated sensitively , and we include the enjoyment from reciting favourite poems aloud , whether individually or in the very successful choral speaking groups established in many schools . |
| 27 | These are the people most likely to be , now or in the very near future , full-time pupils or students in educational institutions . |
| 28 | Have you , Mr. Speaker , had any intimation from Ministers that they intend to make a statement , today or in the very near future , that would at least enable the House to question Ministers about that meeting and to show that , even if Ministers have no solution to offer , the Opposition have ? |
| 29 | Head teachers say governors do n't show any interest — or in the very rare case show too much . |
| 30 | Causes lie as a rule in the field of this personal inadequacy or in the more obscure considerations of fetishism or developmental disorder . |