Example sentences of "[coord] on [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , Parliament provided machinery for administration in the situation where the power to appoint a receiver does not exist , or where the power does exist but has not been exercised , or where the power has been exercised , but the person by whom or on whose behalf the receiver has been appointed consents to an order being made . |
| 2 | Where the court is satisfied that any improper solicitation has been used by or on behalf of a trustee in obtaining proxies or in procuring his appointment as trustee , it may order that no remuneration be allowed to the person by whom or on whose behalf the solicitation was exercised ( r 6.148(1) ) . |
| 3 | would , together with any shares already held by the person or persons by or on whose behalf the advertisement is being issued , carry not less than that percentage of those voting rights . ’ |
| 4 | The common law liability has been modified in respect of fires spreading from the defendant 's land by the Fires Prevention ( Metropolis ) Act 1774 , which provides that no action shall be maintainable against anyone in whose building or on whose estate a fire shall accidentally begin . |
| 5 | His perspective was that in 1942 — unlike in 1940 — his movement no longer depended exclusively on the support of its allies or on its capacity to rally French overseas territories . |
| 6 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 7 | I can not help the hon. Gentleman on the departure of Duncan Nichol or on its date , but I can help him on the point that I sought to make . |
| 8 | Every announcement , public statement or document as aforesaid made or published by it or on its behalf in the course of KPMG 's engagement hereunder will contain all particulars required to comply with all applicable statutory , legal and regulatory provisions ( other than particulars required by the rules and regulations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales arising out of the involvement of any Indemnified Person in the Offer ) and all requirements of The Stock Exchange and of the City Code , all other information which might reasonably be considered material in the context thereof and all facts , expressions of opinion , expectations or intentions or other information reasonably required by KPMG ; |
| 9 | Research has shown that older people with appreciable or severe disablement form a significantly higher proportion of those living in poverty or on its margins than older people with no disabilities . |
| 10 | Thus more than twice as many older women as older men live in poverty or on its margins . |
| 11 | The existence , somewhere within the Empire or on its periphery , of a lineal descent from Jesus or his family would have represented a threat to the coalescing Church hierarchy — the propagators of specifically Pauline Christianity . |
| 12 | Yugoslavia was without a federal budget until June 1991 , because Croatia and Slovenia could not agree on what percentage of the budget to allocate to the military , or on what contributions they should each make to the federal budget . |
| 13 | Economists are not agreed ( nor are politicians for that matter ) on how effective it has been or can be , or on what form it should take . |
| 14 | Whenever she had arrived before , with her mother , or on her way to stay with relatives and school friends , it had been full of innocent bustle presaging lunch at Marshall and Snelgroves and tea at Fortnums . |
| 15 | All through the film Sean Walsh had put his thin bony arm around her shoulder or on her knee and even on one particularly unpleasant occasion managed to get his hand sort of around her back , under her arm and around her breast . |
| 16 | Her voice had no effect on the audience or on her father 's story . |
| 17 | The incidence of bully/victim problems in schools within mainstream children has now been well-established ; however while it may be likely that children with special educational needs will be over-represented in such categories , there has been very little quantitative evidence on this point , or on which types of special needs children are most likely to be involved , in which way . |
| 18 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 19 | Ask the staff if the policy has had any effect on their attitudes to drinking , or on their awareness of their drinking habits . |
| 20 | placed them upon their heads , or on their horses . |
| 21 | The table shows which companies are publishing the Colour Index Generic Names in their catalogues or on their colour charts . |
| 22 | The table shows which companies are publishing the Colour Index Generic Names in their catalogues or on their colour charts . |
| 23 | Thus , those at the top , or on their way , naturally head for jobs where they can challenge assumptions , old and new . |
| 24 | Who are , as you probably all know , erm , in London , or on their way to London , lobbying , I hope successfully , but I fear probably not , said he , keeping an eye on the tape recorder trying to get more money out of the government in regard to our backing in this , and we wish you well . |
| 25 | Although in no sense a general theory , Foucault 's notion of power reformulates the problem of agency and determinism which had beset Sartre and many others by focusing on the possibility of making intelligible the strategies and techniques of local operations of power without relying on the dialectic of ideology and the consciousness of subjects , or on their corollary , the assumption that power operates globally and homogeneously . |
| 26 | We have no statistics to tell us how many children are involved , how long they spend in any one of these stages of transition , nor do we know what effect these experiences have on them or on their relationships with natural or step-parents . |
| 27 | Whereas lower-class juvenile delinquents find themselves confronting a legal system which has literally declared war against them , upper-class corporate officials find a legal system which is either at , or on their side ; for the most part it is unwilling and if not , unable even to guarantee compensation for the victims of corporate crime let alone to contain and control the crime itself . |
| 28 | Why do not schools or colleges display at their gate or on their notepaper or in their prospectus ‘ Twinned with Philips ’ or ‘ Partnered with Boots ’ ? |
| 29 | Most people got some informal care , and three-quarters had someone who spent on average at least an hour a day doing things with them or on their behalf . |
| 30 | However , there is evidence to suggest that some women distrusted other methods of birth control , and particularly that of male withdrawal ; not all women could reckon on either being able to ‘ push him out of the way when I think it 's near ’ , or on their husbands ' constant exercise of self-control . |