Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are based on both the degree of digestion and on the proportions of teeth and bones affected , and using these patterns it is sometimes possible to identify predator species when they are unknown . |
| 2 | The display of goods in the shop window or on the shelves of a supermarket is an invitation to treat , i. e. an invitation to members of the public to make an offer to buy . |
| 3 | It seems then that the display of goods in an automatic vending machine — unlike that in a shop window or on the shelves of a supermarket — is not merely an invitation to treat but is an offer . |
| 4 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |
| 5 | It focuses on corporate approaches to managing such staff , e.g. recruitment , selection , appraisal , development , motivation , salary structures , discipline , dismissal and on the characteristics of unions which are recruiting managers , on the extent that managerial unionists experience conflicts of interests between their employer and the union , on the extent to which they tend to be ‘ moderate ’ or ‘ militant ’ and on how managers ' unions relate to other unions . |
| 6 | The declaration , with its renewed emphasis on the importance of unity and on the obstacles to it , reads like the triumph of hope over experience : ‘ We urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share . |
| 7 | I shall return to the ( pull ) set as an example of phono-lexical alternation , largely because such alternation appears to be typical of dialect-divergent communities , and is extremely important in the arguments that I shall develop in later chapters on phonological change and on the effects of strong and weak social ties in communities . |
| 8 | Any correction of ethnic disadvantage , therefore , has to focus both on racism and on the mechanisms of class disadvantage . |
| 9 | The light from a standard lamp caught the hair bubbling up through the open neck of his shirt and on the backs of his arms . |
| 10 | Because if you want to do shopping or just window shopping , you should park outside of the town or on the outskirts of the town and you can walk in or you can get the the bus service |
| 11 | What the Edwardians called ‘ boy-life ’ had its own kind of ‘ clubbable ’ logic whether amongst the ‘ Old Boys ’ of the Long Room or on the terraces of Old Trafford . |
| 12 | In 1985 some 60 per cent of older people were living in poverty or on the margins of poverty . |
| 13 | Not only were there more of them than of other groups living in poverty or on the margins of poverty ; more had no assets or virtually no assets , and fewer possessed substantial amounts of assets … |
| 14 | 5.9.6.1 for the upwards only review of the rent reserved by such underlease on the basis and on the dates on which the Rent is to be reviewed in this Lease |
| 15 | I suggested that it might be a good idea to get it in midsummer so that I could get plenty of practice in before the skiddy weather set in , but he thought there might be too much tourist traffic going through the town and on the roads around it in the middle of the summer . |
| 16 | The Elton Committee concluded that the lack of uniformity suggested that the effectiveness or otherwise of a particular sanction depended both on the individual teacher and on the circumstances of the school . |
| 17 | Walk around the Tor and on the footpaths of the surrounding levels to get a feel for this legend-full land . |
| 18 | And there were photocopies of press coverage of the famous 1982 march on the Porton Down chemical defence establishment and on the activities of the Hunt Saboteurs Association , including the famous quote from one Master of Fox Hounds advocating that horse-whipping a saboteur was , like beating his wife , a private matter . |
| 19 | But decision making was also now , to a large extent , outside his control , for his livelihood was no longer dependent on the vagaries of nature but on the vagaries of the market . |
| 20 | These 30 gunboats were to sail in three divisions , at the head and on the flanks of the flotilla , which in addition would have enjoyed the escort of the eight gun-sloops of the [ French ] royal navy stationed between Havre and St Malo and a few privateers from there and Cherbourg . |
| 21 | The light over the water and on the folds of the mountains which formed the banks seemed to change almost by the minute and was an unending delight until nightfall . |
| 22 | There should be national policy on the structure of primary education and on the ages of transfer from stage to stage ’ |
| 23 | As well as in the rising main , stopvalves are typically fitted in the branch pipe to an electric shower , on the pipe leading to a garden tap , on pipes leading to a washing machine or dishwasher and on the pipes to a water softener . |
| 24 | While just under one in five ( 17 per cent ) of all persons in Great Britain are over pension age , they comprise more than one in four of those living on incomes on or below the social assistance level ( supplementary benefit between 1966 and 1988 and income support thereafter ) , and one in three of those living in poverty according to this definition or on the margins of poverty ( i.e. with incomes of up to 40 per cent above the appropriate social assistance rates ) . |
| 25 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 26 | The problem of congestion on the Forth Road Bridge and on the approaches to Edinburgh remains unresolved . |
| 27 | Alison 's clothes were neatly folded upon the floor or on the backs of chairs . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll sleep on the floor or on the seats in the lounge , or anywhere . |
| 29 | Our task was to devise classroom practices which would maintain the imaginative developments of the 1960s while introducing more emphasis on craft and on the structures of language . |
| 30 | They felt that it was important that public officers concerned with citizens — judges , the police , the armed services , even teachers , doctors land nurses — should receive training on the obligations of the state and on the rights of citizens . |