Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most people , a penny on or off the standard tax rate — that formulation again ! — pales into insignificance compared with their pre-tax income , the inflation rate , the size of their pension and their mortgage interest rate . |
| 2 | She looked as if she could have stepped straight out of an urchin 's game on the street of a Northern Italian village or off the front cover of Vogue . |
| 3 | These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems . |
| 4 | You do a wobble yes it the correct thing is a rapid alternation between the written note and the note above or between the two written notes . |
| 5 | Erm so that it would be in our view desirable that the level of provision for York was that which was realistic to er to accommodate , in this case it appears to be thirty three hectares and that the er the a additional element should be located in in or between the other districts in the Greater York area . |
| 6 | The funicle comprises those segments which intervene between the ring-segments and the club , or between the latter and the pedicel in cases when the ring-segments are not differentiated . |
| 7 | There is a supplement of £10 per person for travel over a Bank Holiday which is applicable for outward travel on or between the following dates in 1992 : |
| 8 | Even within industries this was so , as for example between the " free " miners of Cornwall and the Forest of Dean and the bonded pitmen of the north-east , or between the working small master clothier of the West Riding and cottage-based out-working weaver in the West Country . |
| 9 | Most of the research on this has been on conversational interaction of a rather restricted kind , such as between doctor and patient , teacher and pupil or between the various speakers in court cases . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister dominates the cabinet , its members wait upon a summons ; there is control and prior approval of the agenda from the Prime Minister ; the skilful exploitation of collective responsibility by the Prime Minister can neutralise and isolate a recalcitrant cabinet minority which has no choice but to ‘ shut up or get out ’ ; the Prime Minister has wide access to a network of policy-making cabinet committees , and ‘ deals ’ can be made in inter-departmental committees , cabinet committees , or between the Prime Minister and individual ministers . |
| 11 | Well , we have n't had a single row er between the political parties or between the young people involved so far . |
| 12 | More commonly , soon after independence tensions develop between the component parts of the independence movement ( eg , in Algeria , Arabs and Berbers ) , between peoples actively involved in it and those not , or between the emancipated non-sectional secularism of the leaders and the feelings of the masses . |
| 13 | The third method for assessing the effects of exposure is one in which the subjects are required to learn a discrimination between pre-exposed stimuli ( or between the pre-exposed stimulus and some other ) . |
| 14 | As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible . |
| 15 | There were no significant differences in the rate of occurrence of any clinically important cardiac abnormality either between the oxygen and air groups or between the three monitored periods before , during , and after gastroscopy . |
| 16 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 17 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 18 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 19 | Cover includes transit by sea , air , or rail in or between the territorial limits . |
| 20 | Other apparently trivial features are the ‘ errata ’ ( sometimes ‘ corrigenda ’ ) and ‘ addenda ’ , which are the mistakes and omissions discovered after the book has been printed or during the final stages . |
| 21 | The ‘ micro-management ’ of military foreign policy crises by US presidents , during the Cuba blockade in 1963 ( Allison 1971 ) or during the abortive military rescue bid to free hostages trapped in Iran in 1979 , are good examples of how national political figures are drawn into the details of implementation because of the sensitivity of the decision-making . |
| 22 | Moreover , transient lower oesophageal sphincter relaxations , which are a prerequisite for reflux to occur in the presence of a normal resting pressure of the sphincter , were never seen before or during the non-deglutitive motor activity . |
| 23 | Holders of one of the qualifications listed below who , in addition , may be required by the centre to undertake , prior to or during the early part of the course , a centre devised programme of bridging studies . |
| 24 | At night , however , or during the long school holidays , she read detective stories , earning the contempt of her father who told her that his answer to the question ‘ Who dun n it ? ’ was invariably ‘ Who cares ? ’ |
| 25 | They have erm in breaking new situations , if there is something big going on , you know , or during the democratic convention or whatever it is , or this Iraq thing , the anchors stay around the studio and then maybe do a replay , so to speak . |
| 26 | Ninety five per cent of the bursts occurred during a 15 minute period before the onset of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex in the antral or upper small intestinal area , or during the lower oesophageal sphincter component of the migrating motor complex . |
| 27 | Mean arterial pressure was not different between the two groups during the placebo period 98 ( 7 ) mm Hg in enalapril group v 97 ( 9 ) mm Hg in hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.9004 ) or during the whole treatment period ( 88 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the enalapril group and 90 ( 7 ) mm Hg in the hydrochlorothiazide group ; p=0.5263 ) ( fig 2 ) . |
| 28 | Was the figure of 40,000 million gallons of flood water to which James Rougvie refers passing Perth in an hour , a day or during the whole period of the flood ? |
| 29 | It is difficult to sustain untruths and false masks over twelve months of contact in the field , particularly when this contact involves sharing private moments with respondents , such as those provided in the canteen or during the quiet hours of the might shift , tiding in the back of a vehicle or on security duty in the sanger ( guardpost ) . |
| 30 | The famed croaking is more likely to be heard in such tanks , as it 's at its most audible when males meet and display as a threat to other intruding males — or during the mating season as the male pursues the female . |