Example sentences of "at the [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 2 | Visiting a friend at the university or maybe one of the towns like Abingdon ? |
| 3 | A continental landmass located at the north or south pole is likely to be ice-covered , and therefore very reflective : a lot of the impinging sunlight will be reflected back out into space . |
| 4 | Holidays at the seaside or in the mountains were by now out of the question , but for young people it was still a wonderful summer : the war seemed far away , and there was enough to eat even if it was rationed . |
| 5 | It 's a bit like asking why someone looks at the sky or watches the sunset . ’ |
| 6 | The edge of the crater was marked with huge splinters of stone torn up from the bedrock under the sands ; they stood like broken teeth around the scene , pointing at the sky or fallen slanted over . |
| 7 | Moran stood holding the edge of the door until the headlights disappeared and he closed the door without shutting the iron gate at the road or the small wooden gate leaning against the boxwood . |
| 8 | ‘ There is a ford around the next great bend of the river , at the Yair or Yarrow , where the Berwickers net the salmon . |
| 9 | One look at the Moon or even back at Earth could spell disaster for the infrared detectors which have to be sensitive enough to pick up tiny amounts of radiation from distant stars and galaxies . |
| 10 | But the information which was handled in FEMIS made up only the bones of college work and it seems likely that the initial difficulty experienced in FE about translating information into worthwhile knowledge about the improvement in learning would also be experienced at the primary or secondary levels . |
| 11 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 12 | Primary-school teachers have to work harder at reducing their remoteness from large aspects of policy than those at the secondary or FE stages . |
| 13 | Tickets priced at £8 will be on sale at the Reunion or can be obtained from Cicely Harris or from the office . |
| 14 | If you are called upon to plan a programme of independent items , such as those seen at the Reunion or at Area Rallies , consider the following points : — |
| 15 | The old tank can usually be drained from the draincock at the boiler or gas circulator ( after turning this off ) : make sure that the gatevalve on the cold water supply to the hot water tank is closed before you do this . |
| 16 | However , the acknowledgement of the users ' need for direct access or browsing has not been coupled with any analysis of searching behaviour at the shelves or evaluation of the approach . |
| 17 | This sounds logical , but when I look at the Sega or Nintendo where there 's no piracy , you still have to pay a fortune for one single game . |
| 18 | So long as the enemy in their sights is the IRA , they will not be moved — even by bombs directed at the government or the city of London . |
| 19 | In most countries the bourgeoisie , however defined , plainly did not control or exercise political power , except perhaps at the subaltern or municipal level . |
| 20 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 21 | Do n't be worried if you have to have an injection at the clinic or at the doctor 's , because the syringes they use are sterilised and used only once . |
| 22 | So , when the subject under debate is the country 's richest cultural jewel , feelings are likely to run at least as high as they did in Paris over the pyramid at the Louvre or in London over the National Gallery extension . |
| 23 | While Speelman can be relied upon to finish just above half-way in any international event , Timman 's name frequently features either at the top or near the bottom . |
| 24 | The double zip allows you to roll the centre flap up from the bottom , to be fastened at the top or rolled down from the top for quick access . |
| 25 | line of type on its own at the top or bottom of a page . |
| 26 | Where such resources are controlled at the top or are determined by national agreements , as with much of public sector salaries , then the power of middle management will diminish . |
| 27 | Because I never know in London which button to press , either the one at the top or the one at the bottom . |
| 28 | Can you can you tell me or have you got a pic , where does the picture usually go ? does it go right at the top or do you usually have a bit of headline what happened in that Mirror one there ? |
| 29 | Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress . |
| 30 | The source or place of origin of a document should be given at the head or foot . |