Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] or [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since all levels of the individual are interrelated and interdependent , treatment on these levels can also have an effect on the physical problems , and if the root cause of the problem is on the emotional or mental plane , then treatment at this level can offer speedy relief . |
| 2 | I have been trying to draw attention away from the great cities , which were quite uncharacteristic of the scene in our centuries , and to focus on the small or middling sort ; and here we meet the doctrine so brilliantly established in recent decades by Philip Jones : that the Italian cities were essentially market towns in origin , in which nobles and knights and farmers and peasants had a common interest ; very often the knights lived as much in the towns as in their country fortresses or castles . |
| 3 | Such a habit was ‘ affordable ’ by those in work , those who were perhaps already engaged in petty crime , and those who were relying on the legal or illegal activity of others to support their use . |
| 4 | In his view , the minister 's responses to questions asked at the time the legislation was proposed were consistent with the interpretation that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ meant that the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 5 | In my view these repeated assurances are quite inconsistent with the minister having had , or communicated , any intention other than that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only , not a charge on the average cost of the benefit . |
| 6 | They argue that to rely exclusively on the electoral or parliamentary road to the goal of socialism is to shut-off the possibility of attaining that goal precisely because it overestimates the power of party and the democratic state ; underestimates rival centres of power ; and minimises the moderating implications of parliamentary democracy and much else besides . |
| 7 | Hegemony is typically an unequal relationship established between a great power and one or more smaller powers which is nevertheless based on the juridical or formal equality of all the states concerned . |
| 8 | If you repeat this a few times , you may well notice more tension on the second or third occasion . |
| 9 | From the healthiest plant you have that is not adjacent to a tomato of a different variety , leave two or three fruits on the second or third truss until very ripe . |
| 10 | Patients were admitted the evening before the procedure with the plan of discharging the patient on the second or third day after the procedure with the drain from the gall bladder eitherspigotted or , if pain occurred , discharging into a bag as in the procedure of percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 11 | The effect which pines and other trees have on the emotions of those who visit them is formalized in the work of Dr Edward Bach , who developed a series of remedies , based on plant extracts , which work directly on the mental or emotional state of the person . |
| 12 | It is therefore usually the case that even more archaeological sites are destroyed on river gravels than on the hilly or mountainous ground where stone is generally quarried . |
| 13 | Leith 's School of Food and Wine offers a wide range of courses for those who want to start a career in a restaurant or catering firm , be it on the culinary or managerial side . |
| 14 | Or , are they explicitly broader than MSC courses and based on the liberal or social purpose model ; and if so , to what extent are issues of unemployment brought into the course and stereotypes challenged ? |
| 15 | In the face of this evidence there is no sense in continuing to rely on the pathological or medical model as the main basis for the development of additional or specialist services . |
| 16 | It will not always be possible to decide a priori whether any new arousal manipulation in a different setting should operate on the lower or upper portion of the curve . |
| 17 | This is when a phrase finishes on the second ( or weak ) and not on the first or third beat of a final bar . |
| 18 | It is not necessary to draft the proposed legislation locally ; this could be helpful but may well be abortive because of precedents and subsequent developments on the legislative or departmental front . |
| 19 | The former Soviet republics have , for the most part , retained a single executive as their preference , based on the American or French model , rather than the collective type of executive found in parliamentary systems of the British model . |
| 20 | In Europe , the main opponents of ratifying Maastricht are all on the hard or extreme right or are a handful of Stalinist leftovers . |
| 21 | This may be in the form of a restricted zone in which the linkage may not lie , a definition of the order in which positional modifications can take place , or of restrictions on the local or global energy changes that can take place . |
| 22 | As the group discussions showed ( Appendix II ) , asking for credit can create many anxieties for people , at least those lowest on the social or economic ladder . |
| 23 | Or on the social or physical environment — the replacement of companionably unhygienic slums by soulless tower blocks with broken lifts ( Coleman et al . , |
| 24 | Some landlords attempt to introduce a review date on the last or penultimate day of the term . |
| 25 | ‘ The operation or termination of the account of a member borrowing on a class 1 or class 2 advance and the grant or refusal to grant a borrowing member of that description other or further class 1 , or as the case may be , class 2 advances secured on the same or different land or other facilities normally available to borrowing members of his description . |
| 26 | ‘ The ombudsman shall … investigate any complaint received by him from an individual if [ 1 ] … the complaint relates to action taken in the United Kingdom by a building society … [ 2 ] in relation to … the grant or refusal to grant a borrowing member … other or further … advances secured on the same or different land provided that the grounds of complaint [ are ] that [ 3 ] the action complained of constitutes in relation to the complainant : — ( a ) in the case of a participating society , a breach of its obligations under the Act , its rules or any other contract or … ( b ) unfair treatment or ( c ) maladministration . |
| 27 | Their validity was evaluated by the following : ( a ) analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) , which gives the significant difference in regression on the horizontal or vertical axis . |
| 28 | Current educational philosophy has moved away from focusing on the physical or sensory basis of disability and so it may initially appear that an understanding of the cause of a child 's disability is primarily a medical matter and not one of concern to the educator . |
| 29 | The films chosen show right turns at a roundabout , a crossroads and a T-junction , left turns at a roundabout and a crossroads , and going straight ahead either at a roundabout or past a minor road on the left or right hand sides . |
| 30 | After the Russians , these were the second most numerous ethnic group to be ruled from St Petersburg and occupied an area which , apart from the north-eastern corner of the Habsburg Empire , included the three southernmost of Russia 's nine western provinces and an equally large region on the left or eastern bank of the river Dnieper . |