Example sentences of "[coord] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Scaup winter at sea or on waters near the coast , mainly from Seaford Bay to the Midrips , but one or two are now quite regular inland , particularly at Chichester gravel pits and Weir Wood and Barcombe Reservoirs . |
| 2 | Populations of smaller mammals , including rabbits and rodents , have also been established in these latitudes , generally to the detriment of the habitat ( Bonner , 1984 ) ; none has yet survived on mainland Antarctica or on islands within the pack ice belt . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 4 | All the Government data are based on ‘ averages ’ , which do not give an accurate picture of the effects of a poll tax , either on local authorities or on individuals within those local authorities . |
| 5 | Narrow beams with high current density can be used for observation with high magnification lenses or on samples with poor CL ; the beam can be also expanded to cover an area of several square centimetres for macro-photography of small slabs or large thin sections . |
| 6 | The occasional release of prisoners due to technical errors or on points of law was another practice which reinforced a sense of unpredictability about judicial decisions . |
| 7 | Lautner is best known for his pioneering of biomorphic styles , either in roadside , fast-food structures or on hillsides in the western United States . |
| 8 | For such critics Hardy traced an essential parallel with the irregularity of Gothic architecture in which he had been trained , and noted ‘ There is latent music in the sincere utterance of deep emotion , however expressed , which fills the place of the actual word-music in rhythmic phraseology on thinner emotive subjects , or on subjects with next to none at all . ’ |
| 9 | This meant I could blame the problems on other people or on situations outside myself . |
| 10 | Theory-builders have tried to peer behind it , but none agrees on what they see , nor on ways of telling which of their glimpses is true . |
| 11 | This would be asking rather more of the social security system than exists under the present arrangements , for this payment would be made , not on the grounds of ‘ need ’ as with existing Supplementary Benefits ( SB ) , nor on grounds of compensation , as with ICA , nor on the grounds of purchased ‘ rights ’ as in the case of insurance benefits , but on grounds of work carried out . |
| 12 | These are the conveyancing and probate monopolies , restrictions on instituting litigation and on rights of audience . |
| 13 | ‘ Rothman 's has expanded in recent years despite a ban on cigarette advertising on television , at the cinema and on hoardings outside school gates . ’ |
| 14 | Members of the Geochemistry Group were active in both the Western European Geological Surveys ( WEGS ) Working Group on Regional Geochemical Mapping and on committees of International Geological Correlation Programme ( IGCP ) 259 : International Geochemical Mapping . |
| 15 | Russia , planning to unify its internal rouble exchange rates from July 1 , needed specific agreements on whether states would stay within the rouble zone , and on procedures for the introduction of separate currencies by different republic [ see below for agreement with Ukraine ] . |
| 16 | Orbach and Eichenbaum 's work , for example , concentrates on ‘ splitting ’ explanations of women 's conflicts between family and work commitments , and on models of mother-daughter symbioses within nuclear families . |
| 17 | Solon divided the citizen body into four classes on the basis of wealth or property ownership , and while most important political offices were confined to the higher of these classes , the lowest class were entitled to attend the Assembly or Ecclesia , and to make up the juries who decided both on guilt and innocence and on sentences in the courts . |
| 18 | And on Holidays of Obligation , too . ’ |
| 19 | Abruptly it proclaimed itself a tribe , featured all twenty-three staff , tribe members on the cover , reported on the growth of the yippies , America 's politicized hippies , and on plans by Sid Rawle 's Hyde Park Diggers to move to the country . |
| 20 | Some of his recent projects in his native Australia include films on catching crocodiles and on skills for surviving in arid regions . |
| 21 | Responses have been made to English Heritage on the management of England 's heritage and on changes to its role in Greater London . |
| 22 | The focus on popular political strategy , on the one hand , and on changes in political representation , on the other , may reveal democratic advance even where there is not the kind of regime change called a ‘ transition to democracy ’ ; so that systems undergoing such complete ( Spain ) or partial ( Brazil ) transitions may be compared to others ( Mexico ) where none have taken place . |
| 23 | Engineers should have regular opportunities for Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) on the assessment and management of risk and on changes in the law . |
| 24 | And on wings of steel . |
| 25 | They either had to abandon a very important marketing campaign and also write off God knows how many millions of pounds already spent on it and on guarantees to their lesbian lovelies , or let Mary-Ann Curtis and Larry Marsh go . |
| 26 | By the 1880s his time was being spent , in a private capacity , inveighing in pamphlets and on platforms on the scandals which were evident in the administration of merchant shipping legislation and demanding further reforms . |
| 27 | The first piece , which happens to consist of five correct sentences , one spoken to me , and the rest written on objects and on pages around me , simply does not make sense . |
| 28 | In my experience I have found exactly the same ; driving is cheaper than rail , even on one 's own and on routes with special rail fares available , like Edinburgh to London . |
| 29 | Existing reports have depended on self reported defecation frequency which is prone to wrror and on reports of straining at stool , which is unreliable because it is a symptom of irritable bowel syndrome as well as of constipation . |
| 30 | Our research consequently combines a critical revision of the standard methodologies in the field with extensive new empirical work both on governmental-cultural industry relations and on patterns of consumption . |