Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 2 | Unfortunately as the blocks reached the wall at either side they could not ride on or off at the ends . |
| 3 | The station and train staff are always very courteous and helpful ; quite often the guard takes the trouble to help me on or off with the bike ; and station staff are good at guessing in advance what part of the train will take the bike , hence where to stand on the platform . |
| 4 | The message conveyed to the brain from one such cell is a bit ambiguous : it is saying either that a stationary spot is going on or off in a particular region , or that something is moving upwards in that region . |
| 5 | The voltage applied to each phase circuit is a d.c. supply which can be switched on or off in the positive or negative sense . |
| 6 | Does it really matter , they ask , whether they are switched on or off by the idea of selling goods in a shop ? |
| 7 | If you 're moving in or out of a multi-storey block , try to arrange priority at lifts and make sure there 's a suitable place to load or unload the van . |
| 8 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 9 | Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects . |
| 10 | Apart from DIY accidents and those in the kitchen , nearly 80 per cent of other home accidents are caused by people falling in or out of the bath . |
| 11 | These are frequently used to bring goats on heat , either in or out of the breeding season . |
| 12 | He can not speak in or out of the House on subjects outside his department . |
| 13 | ‘ Anything going in or out of the valley has to pass along this road . ’ |
| 14 | The markets in options that are deeply in or out of the money tend to be rather thin , and such options are not actively traded . |
| 15 | And none of this would matter Chairman I do n't think er whether E two whether E two was in or out of the structure plan only matters in so far as it bears a part of the making of local plans and the making of planning applications in the county . |
| 16 | She had no idea whether he lived in or out of the hospital . |
| 17 | Do they want to fall in or out to the sides ? |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps it was built as a wind break , ’ she said , ‘ there does n't seem to be anything to keep in or out except the wind here . ’ |
| 19 | Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review . |
| 20 | These can be spooled in or out by the divers , from a control unit . |
| 21 | Nothing moved inside except out of the corner of my eye I was sure that I saw Boris winking . |
| 22 | Its percentage of the list votes was 46.7 , so that out of the region 's total of 74 seats it was entitled to 35 . |
| 23 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 24 | ‘ Work was done to improve the station 's appearance both inside and out for the benefit of customers , ’ said Mr Speke . |
| 25 | It was restored both inside and out in the 1860s by V. I. Ullmann and B. Wachsmann , although there are some remains of 14C frescos . |
| 26 | Potential reservoirs can be recognised in the oolitic grainstones and reefs of the platforms , and in the carbonate mudstones below and in between the reefs ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 27 | arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . |
| 28 | Holmes 's aide Dick Lovell said : ‘ We whisked him in and out under the cover of darkness . ’ |
| 29 | The top swivels open to reveal the photoconductor cartridge for insertion and replacement , while the toner cartridge slides in and out through a flap on the front of the machine below the paper tray . |
| 30 | Finally in this section , it is worth pointing out that in the first Unit of this course we learnt that organisations which were based on an open system ( where information flowed in and out through a ‘ permeable boundary ’ to its environment and publics and where adjustment was made in the light of feedback ) , were more able to adapt to change and continue to prosper . |