Example sentences of "or [adv] [prep] the " 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 | somewhere close , Bouloigne or somewhere on the |
| 3 | If you approach production from school or university , your academic qualifications will be noticed and you will give yourself a push up the ladder if you gain more knowledge of your subject by attending a course in printing at your local polytechnic or somewhere like the London School of Printing . |
| 4 | ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent . |
| 5 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 6 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 7 | Bring the water to a simmer and put the platter of fish into the steamer or on to the rack . |
| 8 | Or on to the point of someone 's sword ! ’ |
| 9 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 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 | And in addition to all these again , there are thousands of kinds of habitat or potential habitat — created consciously or inadvertantly by the activities of human beings . |
| 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 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 17 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it more than the previous allowance . |
| 18 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it less than the previous allowance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If the RC needle moves left or right in the opposite direction from which the wind is coming , then your drift allowance is too large . |
| 21 | The question was often a difficult and delicate one given radically different perceptions of what was necessary or right in the changed circumstances , the different styles of polytechnic directors and their senior staffs , different approaches to organizational development . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Explanations of concepts and principles can be demonstrated by diagrams or verbally throughout the lesson . |
| 24 | Then after the elections or rather during the elections , we have to make sure that they are free and fair as you 've just heard and we from Britain and the Anti-Apartheid Movement has to be vigilant to ensure that we have international monitors from the U N , from the European Community , from the Commonwealth and individuals from , from Britain and elsewhere . |
| 25 | This is the paradox that the very theory which seeks to unveil these hidden realities underlying human society also comes into direct collision with them , or rather with the repressing forces which safeguard them in the unconscious of each one of us . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The White Paper called for a fundamental re-examination of penal methods ‘ based on studies of the causes of crime , or rather of the factors which foster or inhibit crime ’ , supported by reliable assessments of the results achieved by existing methods . |
| 28 | What the examiner is evidently after is the correct interpretation of the words of the Act of Settlement , or rather of the Act now in force replacing the Act of Settlement . |
| 29 | Roger is now settled at Birmingham University , or rather at the ‘ University of Central England ’ and seems rather overcome by the amount of work expected of him , but has otherwise fallen on his feet . |
| 30 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |