Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
3 | Is muck disposed of on a heap at the bottom of a field , or on to a muck trailer in the yard ? |
4 | It is all too common for teachers to feel so insecure in taking a class into the countryside or on to a farm that they prefer to avoid such excursions . |
5 | For example , a basalt flow which is moving over a dry , sandy surface is quite well-behaved and peaceful , but if the same flow were to advance on to an area of wet , boggy ground , or on to a snow-field , the water trapped beneath the lava may be heated up and turned into high-pressure steam . |
6 | Be prepared to have a chat , offer a cup of tea or biscuit or to help people to the toilet or on to a commode . |
7 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
8 | Or on to the point of someone 's sword ! ’ |
9 | Bring the water to a simmer and put the platter of fish into the steamer or on to the rack . |
10 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It will grow into a shrubby bush 3′–4′ tall and looks equally beautiful grown alone or companionably in a border where it will flower away to your heart 's content . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Explanations of concepts and principles can be demonstrated by diagrams or verbally throughout the lesson . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Lucker stares at me or rather at a spot on the wall to the left of my head . |
21 | One day I overheard my mother speaking to a friend , or rather to an acquaintance , since she was clearly deemed worthy only of instant or cliche speech . |
22 | The answer , I imagine , is no , and the explanation is less to do with Adam Thorpe 's abilities as a novelist , or rather as a mimic , than with the particular fictional alleyway he is bent on investigating : one which , after several promising detours and badly disguised exits , shows every sign of turning into a cul-de-sac . |
23 | Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital . |
24 | ‘ No , in the next field , or rather in the ditch between . ’ |
25 | Or rather by the tootling and jingling of a good old-fashioned kletzmer band . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The congress assessed that the AUCCTU had " failed to protect working people socially or economically in the context of transition to the market " . |
30 | Not being paid by anybody else , and the housewife , you know , that are not able to leave home , or eventually in a hospital . |