Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , she was in the swimming suit right , and she diving off the board or off the side or something . |
| 2 | Even more striking testimony , however , of the indissoluble and complex bonds between the church and the crown , or between the church and the realm , is the nature of Stratford 's principal antagonist and the defender of the crown 's position : William Kilsby , canon of York , and archbishop-elect there ( though unsuccessful ) . |
| 3 | It is to capture this function that Althusser defined the state to include almost all non-economic organizations , except the revolutionary party of the working class , in the process definitionally obliterating the difference between input politics and state organization , or between the state and society ( Polan , 1984 , pp. 34 — 5 ) . |
| 4 | Between the single or divided trochantin and the episternum , or between the trochantin and the precoxal bridge , there is frequently an inner sclerite or antecoxal piece . |
| 5 | At this point , the forces of surface tension between the water and the fabric , or between the water and the tube , balance the weight of water . |
| 6 | Detectives want to hear from anyone who saw a light blue Ford Transit van , registration number GIB 915 , in Castlerock yesterday morning or between the village and the secluded spot on Springburn Road , Milltown , where it was burnt out at 9.35am . |
| 7 | It stands ( just ) on the river Bidouze , or between the Bidouze and a stream called the Joyeuse . |
| 8 | Open decision-making should prevent LMS from driving a wedge between governors and staff or between the headteacher and other members of staff . |
| 9 | The latest results are that , genetically , the difference between humans and chimpanzees is certainly less than the difference between the chimpanzee and the gorilla , or between the horse and the zebra . |
| 10 | ‘ Background ’ shall mean any inventions designs computer software reports drawings and other works and information made available before or during the Project but not generated under the Project and either belonging to the contributing Party or to which the contributing Party has the necessary rights for the purposes of the Project . |
| 11 | Designed long ago , the defences of Famagusta consisted of towers and wallwalks , battlements and arrow slits , without proper seating for cannon , or for the ventilation that cannon demanded . |
| 12 | What evidence can be gleaned for the ‘ Queen Margaret ’ school , or for the counter-argument that such changes are largely a matter of style rather than substance , by examining the procedure and mechanics of government since 1979 ? |
| 13 | That discretion would not be exercised reasonably if no reasonable Minister could conclude that the issuing of the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security or for the prevention or detection of crime . |
| 14 | The expression ‘ dishonestly appropriates ’ in clause 1(1) means the same as ‘ fraudulently converts to his own use or benefit , or for the use or benefit of any other person ’ in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 20(1) ( iv ) ; but the former expression is shorter and , we hope , clearer . |
| 15 | A feature of such stories is their selectivity , for they omit to mention the number of part-time reserve police who are unemployed or in low-status employment , or who sign up for mercenary reasons or for the power and respect that they believe accompanies the uniform . |
| 16 | Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap . |
| 17 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 18 | ( 1 ) Where an application is made for a new licence , or for the renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , by an applicant who is not an individual natural person , the following provisions of this section shall apply . |
| 19 | ( 4 ) An applicant for the grant of a new licence , including the provisional grant of such a licence , or for the renewal or permanent transfer of a licence may appeal to the sheriff against a refusal of a licensing board to grant , renew or transfer the licence , as the case may be . |
| 20 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 21 | It is true that at a rehearsal where the eye has nothing to engage it , a recitative immediately becomes boring ; but at the performance , where between the stage and the audience there are so many objects to entertain the eye , a recitative like this is over before the listeners are aware of it . |
| 22 | a lot of our erm work is i sort of the statutory things that comes to us , either through care orders or through the court or through supervision of children in particular . |
| 23 | Before or after the theatre or for that very special occasion . |
| 24 | 5.5 shall not during or after the expiry or termination of this Agreement without the prior written consent of , use or adopt any name , trade name , trading style or commercial designation that includes or is similar to or may be mistaken for the whole or any part of any trade name , trade mark , trading style or commercial designation used by . |
| 25 | The causal sequence is unimportant , that is , whether the elation or depression came before or after the rise or fall , as the importance of the behaviour would be that ‘ he should stay down quietly and not try to make a comeback for some considerable time ’ ! |
| 26 | an agreement containing financial arrangements , whether made during the continuance or after the dissolution or annulment of the marriage ; or |
| 27 | Happy to cater for meals before or after the show and interval drinks . |
| 28 | the searcher may be the end user , possibly approaching the search in some ignorance of his real requirements or of the literature that might be available to meet those requirements . |
| 29 | For example , one can say of a brain process that it occupies a particular point in space or that it can be displayed on an oscilloscope screen ; whereas neither of these things could be said of , for example , the subjective sensation of the colour blue or of the thought that I hate Monday mornings . |
| 30 | There were no signs anywhere of Wolski 's background , of the fact that he spoke Polish or had once been Jewish , or of the God that had been present at his birth but on whom he had turned his back before the godlessness in a death camp called Sobibor . |