Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital . |
| 2 | ‘ No , in the next field , or rather in the ditch between . ’ |
| 3 | The congress assessed that the AUCCTU had " failed to protect working people socially or economically in the context of transition to the market " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She will arrive tonight or perhaps in the morning . |
| 7 | Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative . |
| 8 | Lithological units of 100 feet or less in the Permian of western Canada , have been shown to persist over areas up to 180 000 square miles . |
| 9 | , that was in the middle , more or less in the middle of the town . |
| 10 | They are more or less in the position that teachers will be when they receive the published item . |
| 11 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 12 | I often think that perhaps putting the hub of the sails in , more or less in the centre of the picture perhaps , not the best place , but I think because in this case , we 've got a lot of trees down to the bottom here . |
| 13 | Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there . |
| 14 | I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country . |
| 15 | Clearly television is not the only reason for falling gates — affluence and a consequently greater variety of choice in entertainment , a desire to participate in physical exercise rather than watch , hooliganism , suburban family-centredness , and feminism are other factors all pulling more or less in the direction of declining live attendance . |
| 16 | As we shall see in the next chapter , in natural materials like wood , the long-chain molecules are arranged roughly parallel to the length of the tree , that is to say , more or less in the direction of the most important stresses . |
| 17 | Requests for copy on graphics or proofing printers which would occupy two columns or less in the dictionary should normally be satisfied within thirty minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 19 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 20 | And any join Well not anyone but most of the joiners did the undertaking more or less in the area they were in . |
| 21 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |
| 22 | Finally , a number of local authorities without polytechnics or much in the way of advanced further education provision have considered it unfair that they should nevertheless have to pay sizeable sums of money into the pool . |
| 23 | I have probably missed a few esoteric cuisines and no doubt some of the possibilities you 'll see chalked up on the blackboard or down in the menus , but you 've got the general idea by now . |
| 24 | ‘ We pick them up , ’ the Skull was saying , ‘ they 're guys with no links , like on the pier or down in the meat streets , they 're always suckers for a few lines and a limousine . |
| 25 | Everyone else is out , or down in the kitchen ; the children are in bed . |
| 26 | I 'm either up in the clouds or down in the dumps — you ought to know that by now . |
| 27 | You 've got until nine o'clock tomorrow morning to have route round the attic or down in the cellar to see if you 've got a small fortune waiting to be discovered . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ She 's out on the hills , or down in the fields . ’ |
| 29 | The strong version of the cosmic censorship hypothesis states that in a realistic solution , the singularities would always lie either entirely in the future ( like the singularities of gravitational collapse ) or entirely in the past ( like the big bang ) . |
| 30 | The Antipodean visitor was VH–AQJ/A17–26 , which had been especially crated over to the UK for the event and was expected to spend about a month or so in the country before returning home . |