Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall . |
| 2 | And our concern is that if that figure is appro is is agreed or recommended by the panel or it 's gon na to be taken by the county that there is something in the order of a hundred and thirty hectares of employment land which is going to take investment from somewhere . |
| 3 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 4 | I I think the thing is if , if you 'd 've demonstrated that or , or got to the stage of saying well alright , you know , if you 're retiring tomorrow how much money do you need to , to live on |
| 5 | While the Doctor stalked about the room , or fiddled with the door , or argued with the guards , the three others had sat on the floor and exchanged their stories . |
| 6 | The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids . |
| 7 | Strength was still predominantly in the counties ; the English counties returned almost half of the parliamentary party , the squires who made Walter Long such a force , and of these 128 MPs over a hundred owned land or lived in the division that they represented , a strong territorial base . |
| 8 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 9 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 10 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 11 | That was done because the applicants did a detailed traffic survey , albeit on a Wednesday afternoon , and the county council had n't done a detailed traffic survey , so they felt that if they went to appeal without that detailed traffic survey to back 'em up , they would have been rightly shouted that , or disputed by the applicants that had done one . |
| 12 | The book is not confined to the needs of the conveyancing practitioner , however ; it is thought that the divorce practitioner should also have knowledge of the different types of conveyance which may be ordered by the court or agreed between the parties and the points which should be taken into account at that time , the protective measures that might be taken before the conveyance is concluded and the documentation that may be required in dealing with life policies . |
| 13 | The company was charged with contravention of the terms of the prohibition notice under s 33 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , because no safe system of work had been proposed to or agreed by the HSE . |
| 14 | All forms of communication and travel arrangements are stressed now and , although there is bound to be a change of plan early on in the month , what is planned or agreed around the 10th ought to send you merrily on your way . |
| 15 | That does not mean that the Labour Party are run or ruled by the trade unions . |
| 16 | While the antigen(s) seems to be proteinaceous , the failure to identify a consistent band on western blotting suggests the antigen(s) may be very labile and therefore destroyed or denatured by the lysis or the western blot techniques . |
| 17 | Either a self-referral or referred by the G P , or by a consultant , or by the hospital , or one or two other sources . |
| 18 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 19 | When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool . |
| 20 | No candidate , including himself , faced an opponent or disagreed with the Communist Party line . |
| 21 | But most of the time she ignored the dogs that hovered around her as she slept in the sun or beavered around the village in pursuit of this or that scent . |
| 22 | Many volunteers acted as models or helped behind the scenes with refreshments and raffle tickets . |
| 23 | Certainly what we talk about and our ability to make ourselves understood is hampered or helped by the language we have at our disposal . |
| 24 | Goodwill Under Irish GAAP , goodwill may be either written off immediately on completion of the acquisition against shareholders ' equity or capitalized in the balance sheet and amortized through the income statement on a systematic basis over its useful economic life . |
| 25 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 26 | If future league tables report disaggregated profiles for resources and costs for each study then the costs may be validated or recalculated for the decision maker 's own setting . |
| 27 | When the legal meaning of a term is given to , or arrogated by the courts , then of course the phrase error of law implies a deviation from that standard . |
| 28 | The economics of the base could not explain everything that existed or occurred in the superstructure ; as Marx 's collaborator Engels had suggested , the economy was only the mainspring of history ‘ in the last analysis ’ ( Gramsci , 1971 : 162 ) . |
| 29 | With heavily armed gangs roaming the streets , the mixed Serb-Muslim population either hid behind locked doors or fled across the iron bridge over the River Drina , which forms the border . |
| 30 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |