Example sentences of "[adv prt] or [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully , all players at all levels will now realise that rugby is a game to be played by players standing on their feet and that those who wilfully fall on or over other players on the ground to prevent the ball being played will be penalised immediately . |
| 2 | For I had also told of the lives of those who now lived on or near those lands . |
| 3 | The IPR 's main objectives are : ( a ) to promote the development of public relations for the benefit of the practice in commerce ; industry , central and local government ; nationalized undertakings ; professional , trade , and voluntary organizations and for the benefit of all practitioners , and others concerned in or with public relations ; ( b ) to encourage and foster the observance of high professional standards by its members and to establish and prescribe such standards ; ( c ) to arrange meetings , discussions , conferences , etc , on matters of common interest , and generally to act as a clearing house for the exchange of ideas on the practice of public relations . |
| 4 | The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out . |
| 5 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 6 | The surviving examples are almost all in or near tiny villages in remote mountain regions ; among the best are those at Studenica , Dečane , Gračanica and Krusevać . |
| 7 | Where cathedrals are in or near large centres of population , perhaps with a significant student presence , their ability to pay realistic salaries is an obvious advantage . |
| 8 | A good non-mountaineering round walk in an otherwise demanding upland area , leading through or past seven glens . |
| 9 | For elderly people this will be on two levels — a premium for people aged 60 to 79 , and a higher rate for those who are 80 and over or for younger pensioners who are sick or disabled . |
| 10 | Whether the problem is the result of old presuppositions which have not been rooted out or of alien presuppositions which have filtered in , the effect is the same . |
| 11 | It 's arranged that you would eat out or in small parties at the hotel , as I thought maybe you 'd want to get away from each other by then … . |