Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general rule is that no one may use a goods vehicle on a road for the carriage of goods for hire or reward , or for or in connexion with any trade or business carried on by him , except under an operator 's licence ( commonly known as an O licence ) . |
| 2 | Affection , melancholy , and other emotions that eluded classification , surged and slopped inside her as she noted each detail as if for the first time — or as if for the last . |
| 3 | for proceeding to or from a public weighbridge for ascertaining its unladen weight or to or from any place for its registration or inspection by a person acting on behalf of the Secretary of State ; |
| 4 | Perhaps the most familiar example of back projection , and one in which minor imperfections are less noticeable , is the view behind , or beside or in front of , the driver and passengers in a car , or , more infrequently , bus or train . |
| 5 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 6 | Is that at erm at a local shop or or at or at the er church jumble sale do you mean . |
| 7 | ‘ In any proceedings ( whether or not under this Act ) — ( a ) a statement of affairs prepared for the purposes of any provision of this Act which is derived from the Insolvency Act 1985 , and ( b ) any other statement made in pursuance of a requirement imposed by or under any such provision or by or under rules made under this Act , may be used in evidence against any person making or concurring in making the statement . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) At least one of the merging enterprises is carried on in the United Kingdom or by or under the control of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Secondly , and more specifically , where a person has commenced proceedings in the High Court but those proceedings should , in the opinion of the court , have been commenced in a county court in accordance with any provision made under s 1 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 or by or under any other enactment , the person responsible for determining the amount which is to be awarded to that person by way of costs must have regard to those circumstances ( s 51(8) ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Every person who shall by himself or by or in conjunction with any other person , corruptly solicit or receive , for himself , or for any other person , any gift , loan , fee , reward , or advantage whatever as an inducement to , or reward for , or otherwise on account of any member … of a public body … doing or forbearing to do anything in respect of any matter or transaction whatsoever , actual or proposed , in which such public body is concerned shall be guilty of a misdemeanour . ’ |
| 11 | And as if on cue in rolled a Chalmers Mace supply van . |
| 12 | Here the land is flat and fertile like Ayrshire and as if on cue a herd of Ayrshire cows obliged by ambling by Loch Watten . |
| 13 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 14 | There arose within me without warning , and as if from a depth not of years but of centuries , the memory of that earlier morning at the Old House when my brother had brought his toy garden into the nursery . |
| 15 | After the war , the local people built some dikes , and as if from nowhere , the cranes came back . |
| 16 | The receptionist then writes clearly , ‘ You will be told when it is announced ’ , and as if by magic one of those charming , immaculate stewardesses will make sure that you do know . |
| 17 | A blade glinted , and as if by magic a crescent appeared on the man 's cheek , with little beads of blood seeping out like juice from an orange . |
| 18 | All eyes were staring eastward , where eight bodies , clearly outlined against the shining sea , had popped out of the helicopter and as if by magic had descended , light as feathers , to disappear among the dunes . |
| 19 | Looking around , Ashenden noted yet again the readily observable fact that ( doubtless like animals ) tourists from very early on staked out their territories : find them sitting at one particular table for dinner and almost invariably , for breakfast next morning , you would find them sitting at the very same table ; allocate them to particular seats in a coach on the first part of a journey , and as if by some proprietorial right the passengers would thereafter usually veer towards those selfsame seats . |
| 20 | I ate like an animal too — furtively , quickly , and as if in fear of discovery , but without enjoyment . |
| 21 | At one point Zab asks : ‘ What have we lost … since the disappearance of books ? ’ ( 38 ) , and as if in reply , Tim describes cybernetic abstractions as the cause of mental and physiological degeneration : ‘ We 've become stunted human beings . |
| 22 | And er as and as and as that . |
| 23 | The range of the assay was 3 to 180 mg/l and between and within batch coefficients of variation were 5.0 and 2.7% respectively . |
| 24 | How , with respect to what , and for and against whom they use that power are what we should be investigating . |
| 25 | But does anyone have any strong feelings either for or against changing the time , and for or against nine thirty . |
| 26 | And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack ! |
| 27 | before elective traumatic procedures such as insertion of long lines , elective re-intubation , and during or after emergency procedures such as insertion of chest drains ; |
| 28 | That and like and like that ! |
| 29 | These usually involve increasing plant diversity , contour ploughing , inter-cropping , minimum or no-tillage systems , and grass strips ( with or without grass-covered storm channels or bunds , and with or without brushwood planting along the contours between strips ) . |
| 30 | Incorporation may itself take several forms : public or private , limited or unlimited , and with or without a share capital . |