Example sentences of "[conj] on the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Has the Labour party changed its mind on capitalism , or on the Soviet Union ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Various regions of the gut are elaborately innervated ( e.g. Zawarsin , 1916 ; Orlov , 1924 ) , with multipolar neurons in or on the intestinal wall . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If I had guessed correctly they would be out there somewhere , lodged in a gutter or on the flat roof of the tower . |
| 17 | Are the contents shown on the inside front cover , or on the front page ? |
| 18 | ‘ or on a road ’ covers potential danger or actual danger to pedestrians or anyone not actually in or on the offending motor vehicle . |
| 19 | With computerisation , communicating with another office in the same building , or on the other side of the globe , has become much easier . |
| 20 | ‘ Had it happened the week before we arrived , or on the other side of town , no-one would have noticed . |
| 21 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 22 | So you could have been standing , you with your shield , at this point with Constable with you , either on one side of the bed or at the bottom of the bed or on the other side of the bed , where were you in fact standing ? |
| 23 | Yeah , it 's either the fence yeah , you know that white fence , either there or on the other side where those gold things are you know , or if we 're not there , go on the other side of the park where the other gold things are . |
| 24 | But sometimes material facts are suppressed , or on the other hand one party may petition for divorce without the other party being aware of the proceedings . |
| 25 | Or on the other hand , I 'm sure you noticed , Lord Dersingham 's trousers were dripping wet . ’ |
| 26 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 27 | Centres should ensure , taking into account the entry requirements of Section 3 , that applicants have an appropriate profile of prior attainment , including adequate practical experience , to succeed on the programme or on the individual area of study for which they wish to enrol . |
| 28 | Typically , however , there is hardly a word in all the reviews on the labours of Mrs Gould , or on the revolutionary influence of Edward Lear . |
| 29 | It was found that anxiety level had no effect on the consistency or direction of eye movement or on the relative extent of left-right deviations of gaze in response to verbal and spatial questions . |
| 30 | For example , agricultural production might be organised on the basis of the master-slave relationship , as in Ancient Rome or in the southern states of the USA , or based on the lord serf relationship , as in feudal Europe , or on the capitalist-proletarian relationship , as in modern Western societies . |