Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I think that this needs saying , quite calmly and objectively , in this commentary , which will not spare me when I have done badly or in the wrong spirit or left half-done , but will not either , in a spirit of false modesty , gloss over those things in my life and work which have been a success , even , mildly , a triumph . |
| 2 | Whether versions of destruction are to take place within or without the industrial enterprise , the political implications are obvious . |
| 3 | One attribute of thinking as opposed to perception is that the evidence is relatively less complete , gaps have to be filled either within or beyond the available data . |
| 4 | When compared with the standard reference values accordinly to the patients ' age group , the individual serum total cholesterol values for men and women were seen to have a propensity to fall within or below the lower end of the normal range . |
| 5 | One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector . |
| 6 | In the former regimes of ‘ real socialism ’ in Eastern Europe the right to vote was largely denuded of its meaning by the proscription of any opposition parties , and even of dissenting groups within or outside the single ruling party , while the movements for democratic reform which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s were regularly suppressed by force or intimidation until they were finally successful at the end of the 1980s . |
| 7 | You have to put them up because the notes are on or below the middle line . |
| 8 | Payment of salaries and pensions was 221,600 million roubles in arrears , and half the population was said to be on or below the monthly minimum consumption level ( set in June at 2,150 roubles ) , as prices for goods and service rose faster than wages and food production fell by 23 per cent . |
| 9 | Any child whose weight is on or below the third centile ( i.e. only three in every hundred children will be this weight at this age ) is very seriously underweight . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Conversely , any child whose weight is on or over the ninety-seventh centile is seriously overweight . |
| 12 | That was done and completion actually took place is pleaded as the twenty second of November , the er defendants admit completion took place on or about the twenty fifth of November . |
| 13 | I really would like to comment further , but I 'm not able so to do er we have all heard the autumn statement er from the Chancellor of the Exchequer last week , following on from that we expect to receive the draft standard spending assessment for Suffolk on or about the twenty sixth of this month , er and it really is , will be er when we have that indication that er Policy Committee will give to er , pull together the strings for the preparation of next year 's budget . |
| 14 | go on or about the running railway |
| 15 | If you move on or after the 1st April 1991 you will normally lose the reduction although there are certain circumstances when this is not the case . ’ |
| 16 | Between the 4th and 15th and on or near the 27th you may face some extraordinary turns of events . |
| 17 | Darkfalls occur regularly on or near the same locality . |
| 18 | All the offences happened on or near the same two footbridges on the Fishermead estate . |
| 19 | If you 're thinking about improving your lifestyle , do n't be put off by a well-meaning person who may try to get you to change your mind — especially on or around the 19th . |
| 20 | Until the Bolshevik revolution the question of whether Marxists should be inside or outside the Labour Party was very much a matter for themselves , as for all other radical and socialist groups . |
| 21 | You spoke about what was said in the brochure that management charges had been or would be running at about a rate of inflation , we can see it on page fifty six , it 's better if you look at it I think , rather than I parrot phrase , see fifty six if you so kind now see fifty six is talking about at Broadstone will the management charges greatly increase the answer is no management service , er , sorry has appointed U K leading management specialist for several reasons , firstly because of their professional caring attitude , secondly because time has shown that management charges , rises the rate either slightly below or at the levelled inflation when that brochure was produced in respect of that development was that statement true or was it not ? |
| 22 | Taylor and Ford ( 1983 : 183 ) note that ‘ the distinction between the ’ young ’ and the ‘ old ’ elderly is now commonplace' and suggest that this is manifested in , among other factors , the greater likelihood that the old elderly live in poor housing and that they have incomes below or near the supplementary-benefit rate . |
| 23 | It has also become evident from recent literature that there was nothing like a " simultaneous " extinction of many different groups , either within the brachiopods alone or within the organic world in general , at the end of the Permian ; I am told that plant spores , at least , still show an uncannily rapid change at this level all round the world , though the big change in plant macrofossils seems to have come much later . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Our minds ca n't cope with the large distances that astronomy deals in or with the small distances that atomic physics deals in , but we can represent those distances in mathematical symbols . |
| 26 | ‘ or on a road ’ covers potential danger or actual danger to pedestrians or anyone not actually in or on the offending motor vehicle . |
| 27 | I hereby acknowledge that I have received from the sum of £ in payment for the fixtures , fittings and chattels now in or about the above premises listed in the Schedule below AND I confirm that I am absolutely entitled to the same free of any charge , hire-purchase agreement or other incumbrance affecting the same or any of them . |
| 28 | ‘ Reserve stock , describes a closed access part of a library located in or near the same building as the open access collections . |
| 29 | In the hypognathous head the long axis is vertical and the mouthparts ventral ; the occipital foramen lies in or near the transverse plane . |
| 30 | It follows from this that there has never been , and never could be , an empirical human society of other than miniscule size in which all the individuals were , even approximately , " equal " , other perhaps than in the theological sense of " equal before God " . |