Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is a process by which the child ceases to have available any rewards during or just after the production of undesirable behaviour .
2 Lithotripsy with the piezo electric generator Wolf 2300 is well tolerated , only 7% experienced local pain of moderate intensity during or immediately after the procedure .
3 To give a text-book example , college students were trained in a situation in which a buzzer was sounded before , after or together with the delivery of a mild electric shock to the finger ( Spooner & Kellogg , 1947 ) .
4 VOR holding on a DME fix towards or away from a VOR is flown as a normal VOR hold .
5 This implies that the return flow for velocity fluctuations towards or away from the centre of the wake occurs dominantly in the upstream and downstream directions and little in the transverse ( z and -z ) directions .
6 Fish being the image into focus in a similar way to a camera , by moving the lens towards or away from the retina .
7 Fish , squid and octopuses accommodate solely by moving the lens towards or away from the retina .
8 You should try and keep your balance by moving the knees and hips towards or away from the sail , keeping the shoulders still .
9 They force us to choose between being a part of or apart from the world of our everyday living .
10 In the ASE system of nomenclature , the oxidation number of an element in an oxoanion is sometimes used instead of or together with a prefix of suffix .
11 At the top of the backswing , note how the left shoulder has turned and is now in front of and slightly underneath the chin .
12 The leaves are turned , alternately , towards and away from the centre of the mosaic , as in the scrolls of mosaics B and C , North Hill .
13 Another part of Colette 's method of making round , making substantial , is her habit of moving backwards and forwards , towards and away from the object .
14 It is then stayed athwartships by wire and fixed for and aft by an aluminium alloy strut which clamps onto the backstay .
15 ‘ I have a lot to thank Nigel Mansell for and obviously as an Englishman I know what sort of pressures there will be on me .
16 As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free .
17 At that time , during and just after the war , Highgate was an area in which a number of scientific and academic people lived .
18 Though punctuated by frequent flash-backs to the period before , during and just after the war , temporal progression in the present is clearly marked by the development of two narrative lines which weave their ways in and out of the novel .
19 East London during and just after the war is lovingly portrayed , with an eye and ear for detail which strike a nostalgic chord .
20 Having mastered all aspects of the department 's work , Oldman rose rapidly through its senior ranks during and just after the war .
21 In the chemicals and electrical engineering industries multidivisional enterprises such as ICI and Associated Electrical Industries carried out large investment programmes — the chemicals industry stimulated by the removal of German competition during and shortly after the war combined with a world shortage of chemicals , and electrical engineering stimulated by the rapid growth of electricity generation under Citrine ( Shonfield , 1958 ) .
22 The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested .
23 They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war .
24 A far larger number of sets were in use than licence figures would suggest , but during and especially at the outset of the campaign for independence the number of newspaper readers exceeded that of radio listeners .
25 It is the failure to do so that often makes such programmes both unrealistic and ineffective to participants both during and certainly after the event .
26 Your stance is crucial to how you move into or away from the ball .
27 Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane .
28 A Bowser portable tank and pump for pumping petrol either into or out of a car .
29 In the jargon of finance an annuity is just a regular flow of cash into or out of an account .
30 The resistances can be switched into or out of the circuit according to the phase current required .
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