Example sentences of "[adv prt] or [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 2 | More than half New Yorkers are ‘ minority ’ voters , and roughly two-thirds of them live on or below the poverty line . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that three-quarters of the elderly , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly , live on or below the poverty line . |
| 4 | The social hierarchy in English towns took the same shape as in the countryside , tapering from a broad base composed of those who lived on or below the poverty line to a few outstanding wealthy families . |
| 5 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 6 | The bottom line is , of course , that Yorkshire have signed a fine cricketer who is good enough to do well wherever he is either on or off the field . |
| 7 | It must also be said that a plain boiled ham presented on or off the bone is a delight to the jaded palate and should not be ignored because it remains undistinguished by any special cure . |
| 8 | The Colemans were driven to Filanta Court , on Archbishop Makarios Avenue , and handed the keys of No. 62B , a large three-bedroomed apartment with a balcony overlooking the port of Larnaca from which everybody getting on or off the ferry from Lebanon could be observed through binoculars . |
| 9 | The foundation stage is then followed by , or merges into , a more specific stage which provides a more specialized education or training , which may be on or off the job , or a mixture of both . |
| 10 | But he did n't stop drinking on or off the set . |
| 11 | Some of these fungi , Phurmomyces for example , are known to occur only on or between the tarsal claws at the tips of the insect 's legs . |
| 12 | Erm a late picture , say on or about the day befor when it packed up which was erm July nineteen fifty nine for passenger servicing . |
| 13 | It was generally held on or about the feast day of the patron saint to whom the church was dedicated . |
| 14 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 15 | But they had sort of decoration that was tacked on or on the inside of the coffin . |
| 16 | Thus , the first payment should be on or after the date on which the Deed of Covenant is signed . |
| 17 | The date on the audit report should be the date on which the auditors sign the report , which should be on or after the date of board approval . |
| 18 | 6.4 At any time on or after the Completion Date either the Landlord or the Tenant being ready and willing to complete the Lease and perform [ its ] other obligations under this agreement may ( but without prejudice to any other available right or remedy ) by notice to the other invoke the provisions of clause 6.5 |
| 19 | Duration : AN INITIAL PERIOD OF 3 YEARS AND THEREAFTER SUBJECT TO 3 MONTHS ’ NOTICE TO EXPIRE ON OR AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE INITIAL PERIOD |
| 20 | Duration : AN INITIAL PERIOD OF 3 YEARS AND THEREAFTER SUBJECT TO 3 MONTHS NOTICE TO EXPIRE ON OR AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE INITIAL PERIOD |
| 21 | The physical presence in the territory of the country of establishment must therefore be such as to enable such effective and genuine activities to be pursued on or from the territory of the country of establishment . |
| 22 | ‘ It shall be the duty of the licensee to secure that — ( a ) no such occurrence involving nuclear matter as is mentioned in subsection ( 2 ) of this section causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee , being injury or damage arising out of or resulting from the radioactive properties , or a combination of those and any toxic , explosive or other hazardous properties , of that nuclear matter ; and ( b ) no ionising radiations emitted during the period of the licensee 's responsibility — ( i ) from anything caused or suffered by the licensee to be on the site which is not nuclear matter ; or ( ii ) from any waste discharged ( in whatever form ) on or from the site , cause injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee . ’ |
| 23 | Neither the U.S. nor Russian statements made clear whether the crash occurred on or beneath the surface . |
| 24 | The resources presently known to exist on or beneath the land surface of the Pacific are stupendous in their extent and importance . |
| 25 | We know that they could live in extremely shallow to very deep-water environments , that most lived on or near the sea bottom , but a few were adapted to open-ocean swimming . |
| 26 | The pass is not a permit to park on or near the esplanade and is valid ONLY ON THE DATE SHOWN . |
| 27 | Moreover , while the engineers tended to work on or near the shop-floor , today 's scientific and technical professionals are just as likely to be located far from actual production . |
| 28 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 29 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 30 | Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands . |