Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the Regulations refers to the possibility of translations into Braille or on to cassette to facilitate access to information by the many people who have a sight impairment . |
| 2 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 3 | These are called trans-shipment points , where extra costs are involved if goods have to be loaded on to other types of transport , such as from ships on to lorries , or on to railway waggons to go further inland . |
| 4 | Arrows can point up to heaven or down into hell . |
| 5 | From this point , individual circuit cables wend their way around the house , crossing ceilings and floors , and running up or down to light switches and socket outlets at convenient points . |
| 6 | In Method B , the amount to be paid out is a predetermined pool of money adjusted up or down in line with the year 's change in profits . |
| 7 | The proportion of children aged 10 or over at adoption , however , has increased considerably since 1976 ( from 20 per cent to 28 per cent ) while the proportion of infants adopted under two years of age has decreased slightly ( from 26 to 25 percent ) ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Lubrication in the woman , like erection in the man , is not under conscious control and can not be turned on or off at will . |
| 9 | Lasts all day so you can hop on or off at leisure to visit attractions en route . |
| 10 | In these rural parts it was usually a case of potter in the garden , or off to church or chapel . |
| 11 | Many of the passengers were on their way home to Dublin or off on holiday in Amsterdam , Paris or Jersey . |
| 12 | I joined it at Donnington Bridge and walked downstream , past Iffley Lock and under the by-pass to Radley , or up to Folly Bridge and through the back-streets of Osney to Port Meadow and Godstow . |
| 13 | If a particular dimension ( usually left to right or up to down ) indicates a time scale as well as sequence this is called a time-line diagram . |
| 14 | Scrolling a file within a window generates a series of ‘ plunks ’ going down or up in pitch . |
| 15 | Some boarding schools charge up to £10,000 per annum so its little wonder that a rising number of children are being taken away and placed in cheaper day schools or back into state schools . |
| 16 | These will be tradable : those who are most efficient at reducing pollution would have surplus licences which they could then sell either to those less efficient , or back to government . |
| 17 | The text flow can be interrupted at any time by clicking the mouse or the flow method can be altered to semi-automatic or back to manual by clicking in conjunction with the Command or Shift keys . |
| 18 | But rats sent into space by Wesley Hymer of Pennsylvania State University showed that readapting , whether on Mars or back on Earth , may not be straightforward . |
| 19 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 20 | Civil Engineering offers an exciting and well-paid career with opportunities to work either both in an office or out on site both in the UK and overseas . |
| 21 | They are largely nocturnal , spending their days either down the burrows or out at sea gliding on stiff wings . |
| 22 | If you are busy at home or out at work ( and perhaps you have others to look after as well ) it can be hard to envisage any free time . |
| 23 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 24 | In most shows ‘ hands-on ’ technology tends to be a token feature ; either over-subscribed or out of order . |
| 25 | Great literature is only partly the reflection of a particular year or generation : it is also a timeless thing , which can never become old-fashioned or out of date , or depend for its importance upon historical considerations . |
| 26 | Even when a discharge is discovered , it is sometimes very difficult to establish where the other end of the pipe is : town plans or the other records which comprise the organizational memory are often incomplete or out of date , while physically tracing the effluent can involve the time-consuming and hazardous task of lifting manholes in the middle of city streets while filling sample buckets , proceeding by trial and error to narrow down the possible sources of pollution . |
| 27 | It is , in fact , an amphibian , which can live in or out of water . |
| 28 | talking about experiences in or out of school , eg a school trip , a family outing , a television programme seen ; |
| 29 | That the governing body might record the names of those whose work in or out of school is particularly noteworthy . |
| 30 | A non-competitive literacy test ( in Sesotho ) is recommended to be taken at the end of the first cycle or any time thereafter prior to the final examination since mastery of literacy skills is seen as the first priority in primary school education in Lesotho — ‘ if learners are to profit from further opportunities for education in or out of school . ’ |