Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] in the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The black and white approach used in this country , where a company is either wholly in the public sector or wholly in the private sector , is not mirrored on the Continent .
2 If the RC needle moves left or right in the opposite direction from which the wind is coming , then your drift allowance is too large .
3 The question was often a difficult and delicate one given radically different perceptions of what was necessary or right in the changed circumstances , the different styles of polytechnic directors and their senior staffs , different approaches to organizational development .
4 Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital .
5 ‘ No , in the next field , or rather in the ditch between . ’
6 The congress assessed that the AUCCTU had " failed to protect working people socially or economically in the context of transition to the market " .
7 Try and put yourself in the employer 's place , or perhaps in the place of one of the people you may be dealing with as the employer 's representative .
8 As the shuttle dropped towards the station 's central bulk , Ace found it even more disturbing that she could identify , nestling between ridges of ruched titanium or perhaps in the centre of an ammonite-like coil , a few of the features that would be expected on the outside of a space station .
9 Such illustrations are valuable if one is discriminating specimens , in a museum or perhaps in the field ; but close species are not usually seen together , because they will fill slightly different ecological niches .
10 She will arrive tonight or perhaps in the morning .
11 Clearly television is not the only reason for falling gates — affluence and a consequently greater variety of choice in entertainment , a desire to participate in physical exercise rather than watch , hooliganism , suburban family-centredness , and feminism are other factors all pulling more or less in the direction of declining live attendance .
12 ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes .
13 ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . )
14 As we shall see in the next chapter , in natural materials like wood , the long-chain molecules are arranged roughly parallel to the length of the tree , that is to say , more or less in the direction of the most important stresses .
15 The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter .
16 Requests for copy on graphics or proofing printers which would occupy two columns or less in the dictionary should normally be satisfied within thirty minutes .
17 We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time .
18 They are more or less in the position that teachers will be when they receive the published item .
19 Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas .
20 more or less in the er almost in the middle of Spain .
21 More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety .
22 I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country .
23 , that was in the middle , more or less in the middle of the town .
24 Lithological units of 100 feet or less in the Permian of western Canada , have been shown to persist over areas up to 180 000 square miles .
25 All this time , it must be realised , the fluviatile , near-shore and offshore environmental belts have remained more or less in the same position .
26 I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams .
27 I often think that perhaps putting the hub of the sails in , more or less in the centre of the picture perhaps , not the best place , but I think because in this case , we 've got a lot of trees down to the bottom here .
28 Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there .
29 And any join Well not anyone but most of the joiners did the undertaking more or less in the area they were in .
30 Finally , a number of local authorities without polytechnics or much in the way of advanced further education provision have considered it unfair that they should nevertheless have to pay sizeable sums of money into the pool .
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