Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the speed limit acts is presumably to minimise the danger to those travelling on or using the roads . |
| 2 | This is built into a special housing to fit the filter box , often on or replacing the lid . |
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| 5 | There are over 50 coral reef fish species and quite a number of invertebrates which live by cleaning parasites and small pieces of dead tissue from other fish living on or visiting the reef . |
| 6 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 7 | When a party challenges the validity of a governmental decision , the applicant 's interests might be irreparably damaged if , pending the hearing and resolution of the case by the court , it was open to the decision-maker to act on or execute the decision . |
| 8 | Much of this , however , could be achieved by closing down and/or modernizing the grossly-polluting industries of eastern Germany . |
| 9 | Others are a matter of reassigning tasks , adjusting the timetable of a plan , scaling a project down or postponing the achievement of one or other of the targets which had originally been identified . |
| 10 | You need to interpret your list of daily weights in order to see if , over a month or so , it is going up , down or staying the same . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman is asking the board either to run down or to close the hospital . |
| 12 | 2 , Calm down or slow the traffic flow . |
| 13 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 14 | For those who become involved at a stage when there is a high degree of frailty , there are many sensitive decisions in daily caring which can slow down or halt the progress of dependence . |
| 15 | Come in or shut the door darling . |
| 16 | ( ii ) the registered foreign lawyer 's solicitor partners play no role in setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling the business ; and |
| 17 | On the one hand lay those who had trained in or followed the European tradition of independence and free investigative journalism ; on the other lay a tradition that was also important and which has perhaps been the more lasting . |
| 18 | Erm and people would n't know what to do , whether to leave the child at the bottom of the stairs and take the the shopping in or to leave the shopping and have er you know , er think it might go missing or something by the time they take the child and the buggy . |
| 19 | People living in towns and cities can hardly be denied their quite reasonable and legitimate desire either to reside in or to visit the countryside and without them many villages would now lie abandoned and semi — derelict . |
| 20 | ’ , ‘ Gently , gently , the floor … ’ ) , seeing that all was well I did not go right in or disturb the piles of old magazines , wormy furniture , books , and china lying there ; after all , they belonged to the house . |
| 21 | Krimsky 's participatory role , as well as his logical expository style , make the book interesting reading for those who joined in or followed the controversy . |
| 22 | The police are anxious to hear from anyone who has lived in or visited the house recently or who knows of anyone who has done so . |
| 23 | In what ways might each of these proposed developments reduce the pleasures of people who live in or visit the area ? |
| 24 | Within six months after termination , the employee would not ‘ engage in or undertake the trade or business of an employment agency ’ in Greater London , within a 1km radius of his or her old branch . |
| 25 | This left the restriction against engaging in or undertaking the trade or business of an employment agency within the kilometre circle , for six months . |
| 26 | Anyone in possession of material inside information must either disclose it to the investing public or if he is disabled from disclosing it in order to protect a corporate confidence , or he chooses not to do so , must abstain from trading in or recommending the securities concerned while such inside information remains undisclosed . |
| 27 | The statistical and econometric methodological questions which are important in the context of the above data sets are concerned with would , and how , people stay in or leave the sample . |
| 28 | In diplomatic exchanges , at least , the French accepted American reservations about unregenerate colonialism in Vietnam although , as the French pointed out , they could not be expected to assist in or condone the establishment of a government of Vietnam which would not follow democratic principles ‘ as these are understood in the West ’ . |
| 29 | It is the verb to bring down that forges the link between the otherwise still nouns and pronoun in the sentence . |
| 30 | They excelled in and developed the arts of building , of engineering and of town planning . |