Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 2 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 3 | Cos you 're nearly , you know , more or less on the corner there anyway are n't you ? |
| 4 | It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey . |
| 5 | After a mile or so on the highway Hugh 's pace slackened as though he were tiring , and Marian noticed that the colour had gone from his face . |
| 6 | There is an invisible frontier just a mile or so on the road north out of Luanda , but it is more of a feeling than anything else . |
| 7 | Another dealer would regularly punt out £40,000 or so worth of stock or so on the account to — wait for it — a school dinner lady . |
| 8 | He had a fishing boat of his own and after a year or so on the island had adapted to the life as a native . |
| 9 | We have had several exchanges in the House in the past year or so on the number of people sleeping rough . |
| 10 | If the Laboulbeniales is found only on a single species of guest , or only on the host , this may indicate that the commensal relationship is of fairly recent origin . |
| 11 | Drinks are served in the dining room or outside on the terrace , just the place to enjoy the superb local wines and other drinks at very reasonable prices . |
| 12 | The agreement , which was drawn up in fairly obscure terms , proposed that the now-sovereign states of the former USSR should return to each other works of art on the basis of whose territory they were created on , the nationality of the artist , or just on the principle of ‘ I want it , it 's mine ’ . |
| 13 | Any fullness of the sleeves at all , and as you go through the eighteen-forties , the sleeves gradually get tighter and tighter ; what little fullness there is comes either below the elbow or , or just on the elbow itself , so you can see the fairly , they are gathered sleeves , but the actual shoulder piece is very tight . |
| 14 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 15 | Other settlers included ‘ stray Italians , Greeks and other Europeans , Syrians and many odd mixtures … escaping from tyranny or crime , or just on the look-out for adventure or fortune ’ and , more recent arrivals , many English ex-servicemen , ‘ particularly of the officer type , unemployed , with reasonably substantial cash bonuses and other means . |
| 16 | ‘ Even so ’ , said W.R. Cornish and G. de N. Clark in their Law and Society in England 1750–1950 , ‘ there was a growing feeling that a system which sent 10,000 or so debtors into prisons each year ( a quarter or more on the mesne process ) was too expensive , too indiscriminate , too open to abuse and overweening pressure . ’ |
| 17 | However it applied only to firms with 15 or more on the payroll . |
| 18 | But in most circumstances , the focus will tend to be either more on the maintenance of social relations , or more on the conveying of information clearly , concisely and unambiguously . |
| 19 | We can make , first , an important general distinction , with continuing social and sociological effects , between ( i ) that class of material means which depends wholly or mainly on inherent , constituted physical resources , and ( ii ) that other class which depends wholly or mainly on the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces . |
| 20 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 21 | Each barcode , on a can of baked beans , a packet of biscuits , or even on the back of TODAY newspaper , is worth a different number of energy points . |
| 22 | you can ‘ Always look on the bright side of life ’ , or even on the runway for ice . |
| 23 | If extra figures are needed , they could be placed sitting on the grass or even on the bus roof . |
| 24 | Is there really no wood to be found on the way , or even on the mountain itself ? |
| 25 | Both these plants are hardy and although not in the front rank of ornamentals , are worth growing in a large border or even on the bank of a stream or lake provided they are kept away from the wet margin . |
| 26 | It provides a way of helping to dismantle and correct oversimplified explanations where generalisations have been made from particular cases — or even on the basis of a single example — which clearly will not stand up to broader comparative investigation . |
| 27 | Tickets are absolutely free , and available from Roland UK , from Roland dealers in Ireland or simply on the door . |
| 28 | The chairs upon which they sat or leaned were gilded or of shining chrome and glass ; bales of material were half unfurled to spill around more silk and satin ; jewellery was flung down in handfuls upon tables or simply on the ground . |
| 29 | It said the victims succumbed in gardening allotments , rural areas or simply on the street . |
| 30 | The independence of the guardian ad litem is vital and local authorities must not compromise this by imposing restrictions directly or indirectly on the manner in which the guardian carries out his duties . |