Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 2 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 3 | Unless the prescribed particulars of the charge are delivered to the Registrar within 21 days of the creation of the charge , it will be void against the administrator , liquidator , or any person who for value acquires an interest in or right over the property subject to the charge . |
| 4 | Where the registered particulars of a charge are not complete and accurate , the charge is void to the extent of the rights not disclosed as against an administrator , liquidator or a person who acquires for value an interest or right over the property subject to the charge . |
| 5 | The announcement concludes a 33-year worldwide hunt for Mengele , who stood on the unloading ramp at Auschwitz sending Jews left to the gas chambers or right to the camp with a flick of his thumb . |
| 6 | What you do is to fix a line of battens across the wall ( or right round the room ) just above skirting board level , securing them with partly-driven masonry nails so you can remove them later when the adhesive has set . |
| 7 | Well it 's always going to be hard because we 're , you know , near the bottom and that and it 's very tight , you know just a win or a loss like , it puts you either three places up or right near the bottom . |
| 8 | Explanations of concepts and principles can be demonstrated by diagrams or verbally throughout the lesson . |
| 9 | Détournement and dérive ( drifting ) are thus reclaimed in terms of their contemporary relevance , or rather for the extent to which they influenced punk and the camp and erudite artistic radicalism which exploited it . |
| 10 | Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital . |
| 11 | ‘ No , in the next field , or rather in the ditch between . ’ |
| 12 | Or rather by the tootling and jingling of a good old-fashioned kletzmer band . |
| 13 | A criminal case is normally brought by the State , or rather by the Crown Prosecution Service as the agents of the State , against an individual . |
| 14 | The threat in schools is posed by the degree of control which the executive is able to exert over the education of children , or rather by the possibility that the power to dictate ( by inclusion or exclusion ) the content of education could be abused by a government with extreme views . |
| 15 | Cinema , further , more than any other cultural product , has been structured around sexuality , or rather around the objectification of male desire in screen images of women — that is , film narratives themselves have been structured by such a patriarchal economy of desire . |
| 16 | The congress assessed that the AUCCTU had " failed to protect working people socially or economically in the context of transition to the market " . |
| 17 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 18 | Blackburn will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season , especially with the chequebook . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I think they will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season . |
| 20 | To give a text-book example , college students were trained in a situation in which a buzzer was sounded before , after or together with the delivery of a mild electric shock to the finger ( Spooner & Kellogg , 1947 ) . |
| 21 | With Norwegian jacquard , the colour changes , whether made with the colour changer or manually with the jacquard claw , are always carried out at the left side of the machine . |
| 22 | How much of what teachers currently feel they have to do could be accomplished as well or better by the use of a library of varied instructional materials supervised by well-trained staff with both bibliographical and subject-teaching competence ? |
| 23 | ‘ Early this morning or perhaps during the night the room was vandalized ; everything in it was either damaged or destroyed . ’ |
| 24 | There 's a batch mark which should give you the date of manufacture , but you 'd have to get that from the factory , or perhaps through the Ministry of Defence . |
| 25 | However , the position would have been different if the nodes had been defective and caused damage or injury to the buyer : the seller would then have been open to a claim in tort , or perhaps under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , but would have been unprotected by any exclusion , limitation or indemnity clauses . |
| 26 | Whether this change comes about within one year , over a thousand year span , or perhaps over the weekend — I do not know , though geologically all such time-spans are short periods . |
| 27 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 28 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 29 | As the shuttle dropped towards the station 's central bulk , Ace found it even more disturbing that she could identify , nestling between ridges of ruched titanium or perhaps in the centre of an ammonite-like coil , a few of the features that would be expected on the outside of a space station . |
| 30 | Such illustrations are valuable if one is discriminating specimens , in a museum or perhaps in the field ; but close species are not usually seen together , because they will fill slightly different ecological niches . |