Example sentences of "[conj] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fibrepile is either used as a liner to uprate existing sleeping bags or on its own as single or double layer bags . |
| 2 | Drink with food or on its own , even chill slightly . |
| 3 | This may have been used in conjunction with a net , or on its own from an open boat . |
| 4 | In putting through Parliament the Law Commissions Act 1965 he created separate Law Commissions for England and Wales , and for Scotland , each with a seconded High Court judge as chairman , and a staff of qualified lawyers and others with the obligation to investigate particular questions referred to it , or on its own initiative to conduct a regular programme of inquiry into the general state of the law or any particular question , civil or criminal , which they chose to select . |
| 5 | Since BLOBs can be very large , current multimedia database wisdom suggests that each BLOB is best located on its own separate partition of a disc or on its own magnetic or optical disc . |
| 6 | At the top end the bourgeoisie was more or less distinct from the aristocracy ( high or low ) , depending partly on the legal and social exclusiveness of that group or on its own class-consciousness . |
| 7 | In a later work , ‘ She Loved to Breathe — Pure Silence ’ , 1987 ( First shown in the Devil 's Feast , Chelsea School of Art ) spices lie beneath the suspended images as though a crystallisation of the colours used in the images above : a dead bird lies beside an embroidered shoe , or on its own , under fragile netting . |
| 8 | The court may , at any time , on application or on its own motion order that any money invested as funds in court under Ord 10 , r 11(1) ( " infants ' settlements " ) be transferred to another county court ( Ord 16 , r 5 ) . |
| 9 | Editor , — Martin E Wilkie and colleagues have prepared a comprehensive review on diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection in adults , but they made several statements that are not necessarily firmly established or on which recent views have changed . |
| 10 | Rasbora maculata can be housed then in either a community environment , or on their own — an ideal size of aquarium being three or four feet , depending on the number of fish that are kept . |
| 11 | all learners wishing to revise their elementary English in small groups or on their own at home . |
| 12 | Some families , across the Border or on their own side of it , pursued deadly feuds which could be settled only by the extermination of an entire family or , grudgingly and with much pressure from the Wardens , a compensatory payment in money or goods . |
| 13 | And one is often left with a feeling that in this area of the law judges rely almost entirely on their own sense of justice or on their own personal conception of what is best . |
| 14 | Thus during the period of restrictions the contras grew , and occasionally even thrived , apparently on air : or on nothing more than the scattered largesse of rich Americans . |
| 15 | You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs . |
| 16 | But we could not draw these conclusions if we relied on external norms , on general historical information as codified in historical textbooks , or on our own ‘ intuition ’ . |
| 17 | Your normal incremental backup regime is adequate for the storage directories — LIFESPAN will detect any corruptions in here ( either on processing a move request , or on your running VALIDATE ) and demand a good copy from the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 18 | Thus to the expository lesson , the period of exercise and drill , the set readings from the class textbook , the tests of memory and comprehension , and all the other useful ploys of the good teacher , have now been added sessions when the student is placed in direct confrontation with a variety of information sources , print.form , audio visual and three-dimensional , in small groups or on his own , in a situation which requires his active involvement and which can to a greater or lesser extent be tailored to meet his individual needs . |
| 19 | ‘ Where a defendant in a civil action relies on the doctrine against self-incrimination and insists on remaining silent and on concealing documents and other evidence relevant to the action , he is relying on his own wrongdoing or on his own apparent or possible wrongdoing to hamper the plaintiff in proof of his just claims in the suit . |
| 20 | In such cases the district judge may on application or on his own motion rescind the reference if satisfied that : ( 1 ) a difficult question of law or a question of fact and exceptional complexity is involved ; or ( 2 ) a charge of fraud is in issue ; or ( 3 ) the parties are agreed that the dispute should be tried in open court ; or ( 4 ) it would be unreasonable for the claim to proceed to arbitration having regard to ( a ) its subject matter , ( for example that an injunction is also claimed — an injunction can not , so it seems , be granted on the hearing of an arbitration ) , ( b ) or the size of any counterclaim , ( c ) the circumstances of the parties , or ( d ) the interests of any other person likely to be affected by the award ( Ord 19 , r 2(4) ) . |
| 21 | The court may take the view that the responsible person needs to participate in certain activities with the child or on his own . |
| 22 | Martha relented and added — " Well , Ma is much too dependent on Maurice , or on anyone sympathetic . |
| 23 | She never went off with anyone , especially a man , except on her own terms . |
| 24 | Solly was an enthusiast and difficult to deal with except on his own terms . |
| 25 | ’ participation in the nuclear weapons test programme had not had a detectable effect on the participants ' expectation of life , nor on their total risk of developing cancer ’ |
| 26 | They found themselves no longer obliged to depend on the charity of their neighbours , nor on their own industry for a maintenance . |
| 27 | The advantages of team teaching , for instance , include the fact that the teacher is no longer dependent on his own wit and abilities , nor on his own lobbying power ; the team can plan with more flexibility and more confidence , drawing on the insights and specialist skills of its members and with a broader knowledge of what the pupils are receiving and needing . |
| 28 | So it 's , it 's small things like that which although on their own , as we did n't recycle but for all those people who bought cards and the people they send them to are , are now aware , that they need to create a market . |
| 29 | Most experimental studies of sleep now allow subjects a night of acclimatization to laboratory conditions , so that on their first night they are wired up in the usual way , but whatever recordings made are discarded , and the experiments proper begin on the second night . |
| 30 | Or that on their first-ever real takeoff during base checks at Prestwick , most pilots have as much difficulty keeping at 1,500 feet circuit height as does a low-hour student in a Cessna 152 ? |