Example sentences of "[adv] on [art] [noun pl] or " in BNC.

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1 I think this ought to be thrown out not necessarily on the rights or wrongs of fox hunting but on a procedural thing that you 've brought about where a dictatorial attitude is brought about by the Labour party that have the right apparently to say exactly what 'll happen on someone else 's land .
2 He tried , though perhaps without much success , to restrict the use of chrism to bishops , and , making a further distinction between royal and episcopal consecration , he ordered that kings , like emperors , were to be anointed only on the arms or shoulders and hands , not on the head .
3 Nothing to report to you now on the buses or the trains .
4 Experienced teams are constantly moving back and forth , speeding up by pulling hard on the lines or conversely running forward to slow the kites .
5 No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths .
6 Many more offer their staff free hairdressing either on the premises or at outside salons .
7 We had been led to expect all the guillemots , but there were no black guillemots either on the ledges or in the sea .
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