Example sentences of "[adv] at the [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of any such compensation would be entirely at the discretion Or the Board . |
| 2 | Are you sure she 's not just in the garden or down at the jetty or somewhere ? ’ |
| 3 | Gone are the days when a couple furnished their house from top to bottom in a style that fitted in with the tastes of friends , neighbours , colleagues at work , or cronies down at the pub or tennis club . |
| 4 | This looked fine and fair on the wall map down at the Town or County Hall but did n't reflect the real world where convenience of travel is n't always based on distance . |
| 5 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 6 | One looked from side to side , at the two speakers , or else down at the table or , fleetingly , at one 's own side . |
| 7 | In most countries the bourgeoisie , however defined , plainly did not control or exercise political power , except perhaps at the subaltern or municipal level . |
| 8 | If you wish to apply for such a pass , please do so at the time or order , giving the following details and indicate whether or not your order is dependent on the allocation of a Vehicle Pass : Date required , Vehicle registration number , Vehicle type , Drivers ’ name or organisation , Number of persons with disabilities and total number of passengers . |
| 9 | There would still be the unnecessary complexity of m and w ; such diverse forms as roman , italic , capital and lower-case letters ; the lack of relationship between shapes of letters representing similar sounds ( v , f ) alongside similarities in shape for dissimilar sounds ( e , f ) ; the haphazard order of letters in the alphabet ( one might at least expect the vowels to be grouped together at the beginning or end ) ; and the need to backtrack to dot i's and cross t's . |
| 10 | supplementary material additional to the main body of a book and printed separately at the start or end of the text . |
| 11 | Watch a cabaret in the Piazza , try an exotic cocktail from the bar and dance the night away at the discothéque or nightclub . |
| 12 | No one looked anywhere but at them , not at the advertisements or each other or the tube map , but at the man and the bear . |
| 13 | Either still at the lab or somewhere else . ’ |
| 14 | I did n't know whether you might stop off at the pub or something . |
| 15 | For as the carriage was always at the front or back , it could be kept private from the rest of the train . |
| 16 | The result of this decision necessitates that tribunals look not just at the nature of the offence but also at the severity or leniency of the punishment . |
| 17 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 18 | I could n't stick it up at the back or I 'd look aged , haggard , forty years old . |
| 19 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 20 | Now Dad can have an identical jumper to his son without having to roll it up at the bottom or trying to fit two arms into three sleeves . |
| 21 | Louis and Hyman were out , probably at the cinema or in some coffee-shop in town . |
| 22 | Sometimes the actors went back up to their dressing-rooms for an hour at a stretch while she and Geoffrey stood in for them , posing languidly at the fireplace or leaning back on the settee , twirling empty wine glasses . |
| 23 | If er if you were going out and you knew the coal man might be round that day so you just left a couple of coal tokens out at the door or whatever . |
| 24 | Rebecca , more unusually , was an LBT — a Loud Blowsy Tart , normally an evening job guaranteed to embarrass you in front of your wife and friends at a night out at the theatre or similar . |
| 25 | I am either out at the moment or busy working on some scripts and do n't want to talk right now . |
| 26 | technical management training aimed mainly at the farmer or manager . |
| 27 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 28 | In both kinds of work take care not to draw the yarn tightly at the back or the stitches will pucker on the right side of the work . |
| 29 | During winter evenings Capella is almost at the zenith or overhead point , and stands out at once because of its brilliance ; it is in fact the sixth brightest star in the sky , with a magnitude of only just below zero . |
| 30 | Can you can you tell me or have you got a pic , where does the picture usually go ? does it go right at the top or do you usually have a bit of headline what happened in that Mirror one there ? |