Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 2 | If you approach production from school or university , your academic qualifications will be noticed and you will give yourself a push up the ladder if you gain more knowledge of your subject by attending a course in printing at your local polytechnic or somewhere like the London School of Printing . |
| 3 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 4 | Or on to the point of someone 's sword ! ’ |
| 5 | Bring the water to a simmer and put the platter of fish into the steamer or on to the rack . |
| 6 | Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer . |
| 7 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 8 | And in addition to all these again , there are thousands of kinds of habitat or potential habitat — created consciously or inadvertantly by the activities of human beings . |
| 9 | Unless the prescribed particulars of the charge are delivered to the Registrar within 21 days of the creation of the charge , it will be void against the administrator , liquidator , or any person who for value acquires an interest in or right over the property subject to the charge . |
| 10 | Where the registered particulars of a charge are not complete and accurate , the charge is void to the extent of the rights not disclosed as against an administrator , liquidator or a person who acquires for value an interest or right over the property subject to the charge . |
| 11 | The announcement concludes a 33-year worldwide hunt for Mengele , who stood on the unloading ramp at Auschwitz sending Jews left to the gas chambers or right to the camp with a flick of his thumb . |
| 12 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it more than the previous allowance . |
| 13 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it less than the previous allowance . |
| 14 | What you do is to fix a line of battens across the wall ( or right round the room ) just above skirting board level , securing them with partly-driven masonry nails so you can remove them later when the adhesive has set . |
| 15 | Well it 's always going to be hard because we 're , you know , near the bottom and that and it 's very tight , you know just a win or a loss like , it puts you either three places up or right near the bottom . |
| 16 | Explanations of concepts and principles can be demonstrated by diagrams or verbally throughout the lesson . |
| 17 | Then after the elections or rather during the elections , we have to make sure that they are free and fair as you 've just heard and we from Britain and the Anti-Apartheid Movement has to be vigilant to ensure that we have international monitors from the U N , from the European Community , from the Commonwealth and individuals from , from Britain and elsewhere . |
| 18 | Détournement and dérive ( drifting ) are thus reclaimed in terms of their contemporary relevance , or rather for the extent to which they influenced punk and the camp and erudite artistic radicalism which exploited it . |
| 19 | The White Paper called for a fundamental re-examination of penal methods ‘ based on studies of the causes of crime , or rather of the factors which foster or inhibit crime ’ , supported by reliable assessments of the results achieved by existing methods . |
| 20 | Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital . |
| 21 | ‘ No , in the next field , or rather in the ditch between . ’ |
| 22 | Shortly after Christmas I received the first batch of rereleases from the Savoy label , or rather from the Nippon Columbia Co . |
| 23 | Or rather by the tootling and jingling of a good old-fashioned kletzmer band . |
| 24 | A criminal case is normally brought by the State , or rather by the Crown Prosecution Service as the agents of the State , against an individual . |
| 25 | The threat in schools is posed by the degree of control which the executive is able to exert over the education of children , or rather by the possibility that the power to dictate ( by inclusion or exclusion ) the content of education could be abused by a government with extreme views . |
| 26 | Cinema , further , more than any other cultural product , has been structured around sexuality , or rather around the objectification of male desire in screen images of women — that is , film narratives themselves have been structured by such a patriarchal economy of desire . |
| 27 | The congress assessed that the AUCCTU had " failed to protect working people socially or economically in the context of transition to the market " . |
| 28 | It is essentially a melodic instrument and , though holding-notes in music of light calibre are charming in effect ( especially from or thereabouts with the exception — save in the hands of first-class players — of C ) it can not efface itself sufficiently to carry out the menial task of ‘ filling in notes of the harmony ’ in block writing . |
| 29 | Blackburn will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season , especially with the chequebook . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I think they will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season . |