Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , indeed , quite a common occurrence for a government to have second thoughts about a Bill during or after its progress through the Commons and to use its supporters in the House of Lords to make the changes in a Bill then seen to be desirable . |
| 2 | Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile . |
| 3 | These pidgin languages were also learnt by the slaves themselves , before , during or after their passage across the Atlantic to the Americas . |
| 4 | After all , you do n't want to die of AIDS — either during or after your college career . |
| 5 | Kerr , 27 , has been transfer-listed by Millwall at his own request and plans to settle in the North-East during or after his playing career . |
| 6 | You may want to invite former colleagues to work for or with you in your new sphere . |
| 7 | Those restrictions relate to : ( a ) prices to be charged for goods or services ; or ( b ) the terms or conditions on or subject to which goods or services are to be supplied ; or ( c ) the quantities or descriptions of goods to be produced , supplied or acquired or the extent to which , or the scale on which services are to be made available supplied or obtained ; or ( d ) the manufacturing process to be used , or the quantities or the description of goods to which such a process is to be applied ; or ( e ) the form or manner in which services are to be made available , supplied or obtained ; or ( f ) the persons to , for or from whom or the areas or places in or from which goods or services are to be supplied or acquired . |
| 8 | People soon took sides either for or against what came to be known as the Council 's ‘ green belt ’ or ‘ anti-dispersal ’ policy . |
| 9 | I confess to finding some of his Freudian speculations , unleavened as they are by the faintest suspicion of humour , hard to follow , in the sense that I am unsure what would count either for or against them . |
| 10 | And was Theo for or against him ? |
| 11 | It might possibly have been convoked earlier had not Luther urged that a general Council , to which the pope would be compelled to submit , should decide for or against his Ninety-Five Theses , thus reviving the spectre of conciliarism . |
| 12 | When the next Rushdie has his book put to the torch , incitement to violence over a book , whether for or against it , should be treated as a criminal offence . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why we have n't adopted a position of being wholly for or against it . |
| 14 | By doing this , we separate off everything which counts for or against it in virtue of its effects , or alternatively , its contribution to the formation of certain wholes . |
| 15 | A weakly verifiable statement is not itself strongly verifiable , but is confirmable or disconfirmable by appeal to other statements which are conclusively verifiable ; that is , strongly verifiable statements can count as evidence for or against it . |
| 16 | There are always going to be people who will come out strongly for or against it . |
| 17 | To the extent that inclinations from my own viewpoint harmonize or conflict with yours , the interaction moves me in new directions for or against you and your goals , to sympathy or antipathy , love or hate , pity or cruelty , gratitude or revenge . |
| 18 | When you 're up against your Fortune , whether it goes for or against you . ’ |
| 19 | Teams have 2 speakers and they must be for or against whichever motion is on the table . |
| 20 | Some of these then live as filter feeders , passing water through or over their bodies , and extracting organic materials from it with trails of mucus propelled by cilia ( which is what mussels do ) ; and others ( like many worms ) are deposit feeders , taking mud into their guts and extracting nutrients from it . |
| 21 | In terms of the disposition of the executive 's programmes , however , the Congress retains great influence over whether a president gets the legislation he is after and in what form it will become law . |
| 22 | being damaged by or through a vehicle or as a result of loading or unloading of or of anything falling from a vehicle , the party insuring against such Third Party risks the owner or the driver of the vehicle or the person on whose behalf it is being driven shall pay three quarters of the loss of the other party in respect of such damage irrespective of legal liability . |
| 23 | Some companies may use the standard form of ’ Labour-only subcontract ’ issued by the Building Employers ' Confederation , in place of or alongside their own terms and conditions . |
| 24 | With gloss and shine being the buzz words for hair ‘ 92 , Salon Selectives have introduced a new spray-in , Leave-In Conditioner — Type L. Loaded with vitamins and natural ingredients , this ultralight spray can be used instead of or alongside your normal conditioner for a silky smooth shine . |
| 25 | Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky is the most suggestive of all Dostoevsky 's accidental men , and it is fitting that the phrase itself should never be used of or by him . |
| 26 | Figure 21.15 shows distributions of and of its components , , and across a boundary layer . |
| 27 | What is it a study of and to what end ? |
| 28 | Although he so obviously loved her , waited on her hand and foot , thought almost entirely of and for her , there was a tiny part of him which eluded her . |
| 29 | Pain is of and for itself alone . |
| 30 | Now the police authorities a and the local authorities and the magistrates may be thought to be indulging in special preening , but I do assure Your Lordships that they really are not alone in expressing their anxieties er about the er er er this bill and what it proposes , for example , if I may , I would like to refer to a letter which I received from Justice , chaired by my Noble Friend Lord Alexander of and with his Vice-chairman er er Lord and er they say as an all-party human rights organisation , Justice considers that the composition of police authorities is an important constitutional issue effecting the independence of policing . |