Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name and age of the party boy or girl could be piped or painted on many of the cakes — perhaps across the large band of the hot-air balloon , on the space rocket or on the pop-up birthday card . |
| 2 | 17.2 No amendment or modification of this agreement shall be valid or binding on any party unless the same : |
| 3 | Except to tell me to stop or to go on neither of them spoke throughout the whole hour of the journey to Amsterdam . |
| 4 | Competition for this prize is based on submission of an essay , paper or review on some aspect of analytical spectroscopy suitable for publication in the RSC 's Analytical Proceedings . |
| 5 | ‘ I can just imagine , ’ she murmured , ‘ that when midnight strikes it will come to life and walk or dance on those twisted roots . |
| 6 | I mean , everybody round here just stands or sits on those bar stools . |
| 7 | Contestants who have finished relax with a drink or cheer on those struggling up the last stretch , some of them grasping frantically at disintegrating bales of straw . |
| 8 | But the ordination of women does not stand or fall on that , rather it is related back to our understanding of God and of men and women created and redeemed in that image . |
| 9 | ‘ I am willing to stand or fall on this one , ’ he had said — but when he was proved wrong he did not fall , he rose yet higher . |
| 10 | If Damiani could go to Jaffa , most of his fellow exiles are prevented forever from walking in the streets outside their old houses — or knocking on those front doors . |
| 11 | Military officials gave a figure of 48 dead or wounded on both sides . |
| 12 | Anyone recording or passing on such a comment is in danger now that records are open . |
| 13 | If any members or students have any thoughts or concerns on this matter , please let me have these , so that I can voice the thoughts of the B.I.E. at future meetings of this committee . |
| 14 | If a shower ( other than the instantaneous type fitted to the rising main ) is connected to a tap or shower fitting fed from a single pipe leading from the cold water cistern , flushing the WC or turning on another cold water tap can starve the shower of cold water , making it uncomfortably hot . |
| 15 | Being discriminated against or harassed on any grounds — whether it 's racist , sexist or even ageist — is always hard to cope with on your own . |
| 16 | Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application . |
| 17 | Some of these registers are not saved or restored on each procedure call . |
| 18 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 19 | A party can not , without the leave of the court , adduce evidence or rely on any document which has not been disclosed in accordance with the rules at a hearing or directions appointment ( FPCR , r17(3) ; FPR , r4.17(3) ) . |
| 20 | Men who failed to wash up , wash themselves , get jobs , remember birthdays or talk on any subject but themselves had ‘ good hearts ’ , I would insist . |
| 21 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 22 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 23 | It stands or falls on this one event . |
| 24 | Similarly , contextual support and existing levels of shared understanding about routines mean that the adult is well placed to endow a child 's utterance with meanings which extend or elaborate on those expressed . |
| 25 | For such a policy to be effective the librarian should ensure that works selected or retained on this basis are accorded additional promotion in the library . |
| 26 | They had to wear masks or veils on such occasions to prevent their recognizing each other . |
| 27 | Even while authoritative actions reflect the subjects ' reasons , indeed in order that they should do so , they may well lead to different outcomes on particular occasions , and that without being in any way wrong or mistaken on those occasions . |
| 28 | It may , as in the early law of many societies , be no more than that an authoritative list or text of the rules is to be found in a written document or carved on some public monument … |
| 29 | the industry standard control codes for dot matrix printers were developed by Epson and virtually all software packages and most dot matrix printers either follow or improve on these codes . |
| 30 | He knows he is acting contrary to his fundamental principle or ideal , but the standard of the ideal is not lowered or compromised on that account . |