Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 He could do anything with , to or for this fictional character , simply by lifting up his pen .
2 BELVILLE : [ sarcastically ] What do you design , madam , to do with or for this Pamela of yours ?
3 erm it is n't a problem just for Hereford or for this country it 's an international problem which has evoked interest over the whole world .
4 His Majesties Printers , at or about this time , had committed a scandalous mistake in our English Bibles by leaving out the word NOT in the Seventh Commandment .
5 On occasions when he is developing thought about contemplative prayer as an experience where man feels his faculties of reason and will to be at rest , informed by a loving knowledge of God , or about this experience both restoring what man lost at the Fall and anticipating the life to come , he acknowledges that he has outstripped the immediate needs of his particular audience : " has no fully seen what it is , for is opened " ( 46.319a. – 119 ) .
6 ( 7 ) At or about this time , the bidder will hold its own EGM and comply with all necessary formalities .
7 ‘ I do n't want to talk about last night , or about this morning !
8 Pressing S4 before or after this moment , or holding it down all the time , will have no effect on allowing the ball to pass the bat and scatter the stumps !
9 One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state .
10 This explains the distinctive banding of flora on the hills and why most buildings and gardens are at , or below this level .
11 There has been a mill on or near this site from at least the early 14th century , when it belonged to the Earl of Gloucester 's Manor .
12 On or near this spot , now next to the Police House , stands Glebe House continuing the old association .
13 And someone — someone from close by , someone on or near this site — caught him in the act , and took drastic action .
14 Attacks at or near this point continued as the war went on .
15 Or like this … ? ’ , doing the same to the other , at which point she fled in tears . ’
16 How long did it take to make erm pieces or like this tale , how long would it take to do ?
17 However , it is not clear that arguments for or against this possibility will cast light on the differences between holists and individualists concerned with social explanation .
18 From the commencement of this Act it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to superintend , and promote the improvement of , the public library service provided by local authorities in England and Wales , and to secure the proper discharge by local authorities of the functions in relation to libraries conferred on them as library authorities by or under this Act .
19 ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence .
20 ( 3 ) A licensing board shall not refuse an application for the renewal of a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 4 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the manager is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to be the holder of a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the rules as to the persons entitled to use the canteen have not been observed or that the canteen has in other respects been improperly conducted ; or ( c ) that the manager or the body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement of the kind mentioned in paragraph ( d ) of section 41(1) of this Act .
21 ( 2 ) A transfer of a licence under this Part of this Act shall not be refused except on the ground that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act .
22 Hence the effect of early use on breast cancer risk at or above this age is difficult to determine .
23 → When you buy goods or equipment you have a legal right to expect them to comply with any description applied : leather not plastic , solid wood and not veneer , or in this case a ‘ 67 and not a 1974 model .
24 As Henry Ford said , you can only have it in black , or in this case , with one option — clear .
25 This in turn was derived from the word ‘ ecu ’ which meant a shield , or in this case , a shelter .
26 Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time .
27 Then the stockholders vote on or in this case rubberstamp the deal .
28 ( 1961 ) identified , whereby students embark idealistically on their courses , hoping to become good doctors ( or in this case physicists ) , but soon abandon this ideal in favour of the short-term goal of passing examinations .
29 What is then ignored in most accounts of consumer capitalism is the way in which consuming can be an active as well as a passive choice , or in this context how people can use pop music .
30 So in point of fact idioms is you 'll find that they always fit in either this slot or in this slot , but you wo n't find an idiom which has to form such that if you remove the subject and verb from a sentence you can stick the idiom in there and it will make sense .
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