Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 said : ‘ Our main objective is to ensure we retain the business achieved by ICI when it is transferred on to Courtaulds Aerospace sites or on to a Courtaulds Aerospace product .
2 Is muck disposed of on a heap at the bottom of a field , or on to a muck trailer in the yard ?
3 it creates extra communication problems , since top management is more remote from the work done at the bottom end of the organisation , and information tends to get distorted or blocked on its way up or down through the organisation hierarchy ;
4 In prisons , in the trenches , in the factory canteen or down at the dole office , it helps to cushion the harshness of life .
5 The feeling is that no amount of legislative safeguards can entirely eliminate the risk of a chemical spill , wreaking havoc in this watery landscape where a network of mountain streams fed by high rainfall could quickly wash the damage into the drinking water , or down to the mussel farm and salmon fishery at the mouth of Killary harbour .
6 ‘ 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 .
7 Wander down to the Etangs d'Ixelles or over to the Square Marie-Louise to admire the lush art-nouveau mansions built from fortunes amassed in the steamy Belgian Congo .
8 The site is deeply rolling land so the shot is frequently down from an elevated tee , or up to a pulpit green — or the reverse !
9 ‘ Not unpleasant , perhaps , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ but you have n't exactly gone out of your way to make me feel welcome — either here or back at the television studio . ’
10 Tennis is a pretty dumb game , I 'm finding : the fuzzy ball jumps out of the net , or out of the chicken wire at the back of the court , and the four of us bat it around until it is pocketed — quite arbitrarily , it seems to me — by the server .
11 Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects .
12 And none of this would matter Chairman I do n't think er whether E two whether E two was in or out of the structure plan only matters in so far as it bears a part of the making of local plans and the making of planning applications in the county .
13 in or out of the ivy hedge
14 The In/Out switch does what it suggests , placing the gate circuitry in or out of the signal path ; when this is selected to Out , the signal passes through unaffected .
15 Or or out of the reject box .
16 LIFESPAN networking includes network error recovery features which allows it to proceed automatically with the transfers into or out of the LIFESPAN database after the network link between the user 's VAX and the LIFESPAN VAX has been broken and restored .
17 These are frequently used to bring goats on heat , either in or out of the breeding season .
18 At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether .
19 Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane .
20 Labour said it was stepping up the pressure for an urgent Commons statement from the Chancellor to clarify which areas of spending were ruled in or out from the Treasury review .
21 You know rather than down to the line planning for every single moment of the day .
22 Throughout the post-1868 years the rural — urban balance was shifting away from the countryside in the wake of rapid population increase and industrialization , although up to the Pacific War at least half the population continued to reside in small towns and villages , and there was little absolute fall in the rural population until the late 1930s .
23 Is the fact that out of a Madonna song this is he thinks he 's so much better than me .
24 Similarly , when he visits the south-east region , he will want to know why so many sales people are investing their time in the office rather than out on the road selling .
25 From Cardiff the route snakes up through the valleys south of Caerphilly , over the Ebbw River , through the Ebbw Forest and on via the mining town of Risca to Pontypool .
26 Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal .
27 With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China .
28 An invisible line ran past the corner , left at the second gas-lamp , straight as truth across the grass beside the upright sleepers that lined the railway track , and on towards the enemy territory of the Baltic Fleet .
29 I made my way down into the tube station and on towards the Circle Line .
30 Pepper and Jack carried Bunty through the doors into the wings and on into the Property Room , a cavern of furniture and baskets of props , rich with the smell of dust and old beer .
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