Example sentences of "[conj] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 2 | But I do n't think most people , er , would necessarily consider it than now on the European side , they might consider . |
| 3 | A time-budget diary completed by one of the policewomen for a week shows her time divided between welfare duties ( including visits to the homes of victims and children in care , and attending children 's parties ) , serving summonses on offenders and witnesses , paperwork and case files , liaison with other badies ( such as the social services , concerning children who are missing or on the special-risk list , and the RUC 's Community Relations Branch ) , and enquiries and interviews regarding offences . |
| 4 | One should decide whether any information would be better given on a hand-out , or on the overhead projector . |
| 5 | Where additional stand-offs are used , either on the front cross-spar to vary the angle , or on the rear cross-spar to extend the Rogallo cone , the tension is just as important . |
| 6 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 7 | For this they grow large amounts of fodder crops on fields in the main valleys or on the lower margins of the uplands . |
| 8 | Tektronix reckons there are over 2m 3270-type terminals installed in the US alone and claims that its 3270 emulation allows users to access 3270 applications running on IBM mainframes , workstations , or servers , or on the wide area network . |
| 9 | Has the Labour party changed its mind on capitalism , or on the Soviet Union ? |
| 10 | The rules are not always as simple s that , e.g. Classical Arabic has the stress on the first long syllable of the word , or on the first syllable if there are no long syllables in the word . |
| 11 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 12 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 13 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 14 | Service may be effected on the mayor , chairman or president , or on the chief executive , clerk , treasurer or secretary , in the absence of any statutory provision ( Ord 7 , r 14 ) . |
| 15 | This could be on the basis of multi-member constituencies and some form of proportional representation or on the existing first past the post system . |
| 16 | To quote the report , they live in caravans ‘ because they could not get other dwellings in the right places or on the right terms ; or because caravans meet their needs for cheapness , convenience or mobility ’ . |
| 17 | The tentacle scales which arise on the lateral arm plate or on the abradial part portion of the pore furthest from the mid-line of the arm are counted , i.e. L4–5 . |
| 18 | There would be no way of doing it gradually or on the cheap . |
| 19 | Interspersed with his translation of the books of the Old Testament , which was never completed , were polemical works ; for in light of the reception of his New Testament he felt no need to restrain his views either on the English clergy or on the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 20 | It is unclear , however , whether the impaired gastrointestinal motility is secondary to the effects of amyloid on the smooth muscle or on the autonomic nervous system , because there have been few reports assessing the clinicopathologic features in a considerable number of amyloidosis patients with intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 21 | Various regions of the gut are elaborately innervated ( e.g. Zawarsin , 1916 ; Orlov , 1924 ) , with multipolar neurons in or on the intestinal wall . |
| 22 | She also wants him to stop phoning her at home and for him to be banned from entering or trespassing on her property or on the actual road . |
| 23 | A writ has been issued by the actress and her parents asking for him to be banned ‘ from entering or trespassing on the property or on the actual road ’ . |
| 24 | Little research exists on the difficult task of raising another person 's child in this situation or on the distinctive features and potential problems of step-parenting as opposed to adoption or fostering . |
| 25 | At the present time church leaders tend to be too limited in their experience and outlook , having focused almost exclusively on the fortunes of their own denomination , or on the spiritual conditions prevailing within their own country . |
| 26 | Whether the emphasis in mystical theology is on the interaction of those God-given human faculties which are understood as an image of his being and the means by which man may realise the love and truth manifested in the Incarnation , or on the essential unknowability of the transcendent source from whence that love and truth emanated in time , there is common ground between the two approaches in the sense of a dynamic with which man may engage . |
| 27 | But the scale of the increase might come as a surprise : on the 21-week agreement 10p a week extra pushing up the rate of charge from 26. 1 per cent to 72.5 per cent for example , or on the 15-week agreement 1 p a week extra almost doubling the rate . |
| 28 | If I had guessed correctly they would be out there somewhere , lodged in a gutter or on the flat roof of the tower . |
| 29 | Are the contents shown on the inside front cover , or on the front page ? |
| 30 | My great aim is to give you a periodical which you will not throw aside as soon as read , but which you will value and look over years hence as an old familiar friend , when you may be battling with the realities of life under the suns of India , in the backwoods of Canada or the United States , or the grassy downs of Australia , over the wide Ocean among the isles of the Pacific , or on the distant shores of Columbia . |