Example sentences of "[coord] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said if the , if he , he was shot dead at a Belfast video shop , he said if this was happening in England or on the streets of London the response of the government would be totally different well it has happened in London . |
| 2 | They do not suddenly appear out of nowhere or on the pages of a language textbook — which has much the same effect — but in varying sizes and on varying materials : out of ticket machines , on computer screens , under windscreen wipers , on hoardings . |
| 3 | Their legal rights were not affected by admission to a home and the guidelines warn that restraining someone without their consent , or on the instructions of a third party , is unlawful and unacceptable . |
| 4 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 5 | The display of goods in the shop window or on the shelves of a supermarket is an invitation to treat , i. e. an invitation to members of the public to make an offer to buy . |
| 6 | It seems then that the display of goods in an automatic vending machine — unlike that in a shop window or on the shelves of a supermarket — is not merely an invitation to treat but is an offer . |
| 7 | It may be — although we can not be sure because our knowledge is so uneven — that many of the frequently expressed fears of the effects of expanding leisure opportunities on the countryside are exaggerated , that well-publicized cases of overcrowding and ecological damage in the Lake District , in parts of the Derbyshire Peak District or on the Downs in Kent and Sussex are localized and atypical rather than the shape of things to come elsewhere . |
| 8 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |
| 9 | But the experts who examined him afterwards almost certainly thought he had been infected by female chiggoe fleas , which attach themselves between the toes or on the soles of the feet . |
| 10 | The Commission reported that their visits to the inner and outer areas of the main conurbations convinced them that it is now the large housing estates in the inner ring , or on the fringes of the city , that present the most pressing urban problems in the mid-1980s . |
| 11 | What the Edwardians called ‘ boy-life ’ had its own kind of ‘ clubbable ’ logic whether amongst the ‘ Old Boys ’ of the Long Room or on the terraces of Old Trafford . |
| 12 | Brown can choose selective stock checks — concentrating either on particular commodities or on the contents of one larder . |
| 13 | How much more would a black hole , occasionally passing through or on the outskirts of the Oort Cloud , affect the comets ? |
| 14 | Because if you want to do shopping or just window shopping , you should park outside of the town or on the outskirts of the town and you can walk in or you can get the the bus service |
| 15 | For him the " prevailing intellectual climate " can not be relied upon to " complement and complete specialist training " ; nor can specialist training offer a " discipline " suited to developing the sense of " social responsibility " favoured by inter-war model of English studies , in its emphasis upon the past , has little to offer on those crucial " cultural " questions of quality of living , " human ends as well as means " , or on the relations between culture and economic processes . |
| 16 | Alison 's clothes were neatly folded upon the floor or on the backs of chairs . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll sleep on the floor or on the seats in the lounge , or anywhere . |
| 18 | Many of these factories are built in new areas between towns or on the edges of towns . |
| 19 | In 1985 some 60 per cent of older people were living in poverty or on the margins of poverty . |
| 20 | While just under one in five ( 17 per cent ) of all persons in Great Britain are over pension age , they comprise more than one in four of those living on incomes on or below the social assistance level ( supplementary benefit between 1966 and 1988 and income support thereafter ) , and one in three of those living in poverty according to this definition or on the margins of poverty ( i.e. with incomes of up to 40 per cent above the appropriate social assistance rates ) . |
| 21 | In all , more than three out of five older women were living in or on the margins of poverty . |
| 22 | Not only were there more of them than of other groups living in poverty or on the margins of poverty ; more had no assets or virtually no assets , and fewer possessed substantial amounts of assets … |
| 23 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |
| 24 | Jesus , for example , appears now in Galilee , now in Judaea ; now in Jerusalem , or on the banks of Jordan . |
| 25 | George you may have seen in a wine bar , often in the company of younger lawyers ; or at the theatre , with a blonde ; or on the steps of the Garrick , with or without a blonde . |
| 26 | Deduction at source was hardly possible with other than government employees , nor on the recipients of rents and interest , but Addington 's division of his tax into five schedules , A to E , was not only a major step in the direction of obtaining accurate assessments but remained the basis of income taxation into our own time . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In Polyscope , the faculty newspaper stacked in bins by the Polytechnique 's front doors and on the tables of the cafeteria and the first-floor lounge , a cartoon strip portrayed a classroom of agitated students , toques on and satchels at the ready , held in their seats by a teacher marking on the blackboard IL RESTE 30 SECONDES — ‘ 30 seconds remaining ’ — the end of the academic year ! |
| 29 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 30 | Despite all its fine sentiments , however , the main weakness in the guidance is its lack of clear operational advice on development plan policies and on the matters to be weighed in planning decisions . |