Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] or [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 2 | The social hierarchy in English towns took the same shape as in the countryside , tapering from a broad base composed of those who lived on or below the poverty line to a few outstanding wealthy families . |
| 3 | We know that they could live in extremely shallow to very deep-water environments , that most lived on or near the sea bottom , but a few were adapted to open-ocean swimming . |
| 4 | The candidate must not be hidden in or by the crowd ; at the same time he must not appear too remote . |
| 5 | This only applies to statements etc made in or from the UK , if the recipient' is in the UK or if the agreement or rights would be exercised in the UK . |
| 6 | Thus factories were placed in or near the port of Belfast . |
| 7 | These are common enough , since , as has already been mentioned , a large proportion of the world 's volcanoes are situated in or below the oceans . |
| 8 | Moreover , while the engineers tended to work on or near the shop-floor , today 's scientific and technical professionals are just as likely to be located far from actual production . |
| 9 | The person called responds by giving one sharp tap on or near the receiver 's telephone mouthpiece for ‘ Yes ’ , two taps for ‘ No ’ . |
| 10 | Neither the U.S. nor Russian statements made clear whether the crash occurred on or beneath the surface . |
| 11 | The physical presence in the territory of the country of establishment must therefore be such as to enable such effective and genuine activities to be pursued on or from the territory of the country of establishment . |
| 12 | The entry form is usually located on or near the product and it is usually required that each entry is accompanied by proofs of purchase . |
| 13 | Erm a late picture , say on or about the day befor when it packed up which was erm July nineteen fifty nine for passenger servicing . |
| 14 | In the hypognathous head the long axis is vertical and the mouthparts ventral ; the occipital foramen lies in or near the transverse plane . |
| 15 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 16 | One Summer in particular visiting European skaters mainly from France and Germany outnumbered the English , with the German contingent actually living on or in the ramp . |
| 17 | It is sufficient here to treat as a futures or option contract any contract whose terms contemplate future performance and which is made on or under the rules of a market cleared by a clearing house . |
| 18 | The attempt to disguise the fact that the decision itself was not made in or by the Cortes , was taken a step further with the announcement that the Law of Succession would be submitted to popular consideration in a national referendum on 6 July 1947 . |
| 19 | In all , more than three out of five older women were living in or on the margins of poverty . |
| 20 | Over the next six months this small group of professionals and volunteers provided practical care for 15 people living in or around the Borough of Ealing . |
| 21 | Course I sha n't tell her tha , I , course I shall tell her if I find her smoking in or near the wood |
| 22 | Often wall mounted in or near the working area they can be a useful provision provided they are kept clean , emptied after use and operating temperatures are maintained . |
| 23 | Despite all the precautions taken by owners and crews , some vessels operating in or to the Gulf had exceptionally bad luck . |
| 24 | Such practices were operating in or near the communities affected by the closures , which must be approved by the Scottish Office . |
| 25 | How much more would a black hole , occasionally passing through or on the outskirts of the Oort Cloud , affect the comets ? |
| 26 | A small ‘ open-outlet ’ electric storage heater can usefully be positioned over or under the kitchen sink as it will provide sufficient water for washing up . |
| 27 | All the offences happened on or near the same two footbridges on the Fishermead estate . |
| 28 | Our minds ca n't cope with the large distances that astronomy deals in or with the small distances that atomic physics deals in , but we can represent those distances in mathematical symbols . |
| 29 | So , if anybody saw me on the morning after , either hobbling up or down the stairs in St Swithin 's or leaping up and down ( very slowly ) , with an ‘ ooh , ah ’ , accompanied by much frantic rubbing of calf muscles , you know why . |
| 30 | The Colemans were driven to Filanta Court , on Archbishop Makarios Avenue , and handed the keys of No. 62B , a large three-bedroomed apartment with a balcony overlooking the port of Larnaca from which everybody getting on or off the ferry from Lebanon could be observed through binoculars . |