Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] counter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TSB claims it will offer better and cheaper financial services than can be bought over the counter in TSB branches . |
| 2 | More than one-third of self-poisoners use preparations which can be bought over the counter ( Proudfoot and Park 1978 ) . |
| 3 | As a supplement to a normal diet , there are multi-vitamins and vitamin-plus mineral tablets that can be bought over the counter at pharmacists and health food stores . |
| 4 | Nicotine chewing gum can now be bought over the counter at the chemists . |
| 5 | How far can their involvement be viewed as a counter tendency , i.e. one working towards commercialisation of working-class leisure ? |
| 6 | That may also be construed as a counter offer , which the customer accepts by retaining the goods ; however , if a delivery note is sent with goods , and received by the buyer 's warehouse staff , the buyer may be able to argue that those staff have no actual or apparent authority to accept an offer . |
| 7 | The amount stated can be paid over the counter to the person presenting the cheque . |
| 8 | The parcel is then sent , bearing this label , in the ordinary way but without payment being made at the counter . |
| 9 | Most of the illegal guns are not being bought over the counter , or stolen . |
| 10 | A customer comes in and half a crown is placed on the counter for cigarettes . |
| 11 | On entering the motor control routine the number of steps to be performed is loaded into a counter , in this case accumulator A — Accumulator B is first cleared then , if positive rotation is required , has its most significant bit ( bit 0 ) set . |
| 12 | In order to counteract the effects of malaria , they were frequently doped with opium , which was sold over the counter in the village shop or grown in the fens ( where Poppy Hill and Poppy Farm still exist as place-names ) . |
| 13 | This ca n't be good for him , thought Denis , and he remembered the story he had read of an old man in England , although younger than Uncle Mick was now , who lined up to receive the very first old age pension ever issued in England and dropped down dead as soon as his money was passed over the counter to him . |
| 14 | Willie longed to touch it but it was put under the counter and he quickly followed Tom back through the dark tunnel of materials and out into the daylight . |
| 15 | On Wednesday a purse was snatched from the counter of a shop in Alton High Street . |
| 16 | Very little packaging was required for a counter service style of shopping , and the simplicity of packaging technology combined with the need for economy kept packaging to a minimum . |