Example sentences of "[subord] on [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This identity of provincial synods with convocations was strengthened because such synods were seldom assembled thereafter except on the king 's initiative and for the principal purpose of consenting to royal taxation . |
| 2 | I continued to work in the bank and to give lessons , and did not venture far from the village on my bicycle except on the bank 's business . |
| 3 | b , Mature males have a higher mortality when searching for a female than on a female 's web . |
| 4 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 5 | There were problems expressed about the difficulties of people with disabilities and those in ill-health to have necessary adaptations made to their homes , again mainly due to financial considerations rather than on the tenants ' needs . |
| 6 | Hughes advocated the use of low potencies prescribed on pathological grounds rather than on the patient 's general symptom picture . |
| 7 | Any falling short in doing so reflects more on the teaching than on the students ' preparedness to respond . |
| 8 | With no less force than on the dog 's behalf might the third-party claim that the law should intervene to see the job is done , but there would be no inclination to talk of the right of the grave to be maintained . |
| 9 | Where a bankruptcy order has been made other than on the debtor 's petition , the bankrupt must submit to the official receiver a statement of his affairs within twenty-one days of the bankruptcy order or within such longer period as the official receiver may allow ( s 288(1) and ( 3 ) ) or the court may allow ( r 6.62 ) . |
| 10 | Fractured , non-serial forms in the texts mentioned suggest a concurrence with conditions of contemporary history , summed up in Italo Calvino 's If on a Winter 's Night a Traveller ( 1982 ) which remarks that : |
| 11 | Quests and questions of a distinctly Calvinian kind are the stuff of the two very intelligent novels published to date by Daniele Del Giudice : Lo stadio di Wimbledon ( Centre Court 1983 ) and Atlante occidentale ( Western atlas 1985 ) , both of which also have a metaliterary dimension which links them to Calvino 's other influential late novel , If on a Winter 's Night a Traveller ( 1983 ) . |
| 12 | And ensure that your client prepares the plans to a reasonable scale , not too small or too large — if on a size A4 page that will not only annex conveniently to a lease or transfer of part but will also facilitate the taking of photocopies . |
| 13 | Mr Asquith considers the King would be constitutionally justified in giving an absolute refusal … there can be no possible justification for a third Election within a year ; and , if on the King 's refusal to dissolve Parliament Mr Ramsay MacDonald resigned , and his Majesty sent for Mr Asquith , the latter would accept all responsibility for the King 's action . |
| 14 | Often when on a winter 's night we youngsters were seated round the hearth … would she set her wheel aside , take a pinch of snuff , hutch her chair towards the other hob , and excite our curiosity and wonder by strange and fearful tales of witches , spirits , and apparitions , whilst we listened in silence and awe , and scarcely breathing , contemplated in imagination , the visions of an unseen world , which her narratives conjured up before us . |
| 15 | Wexford put the lights on and behind the streaming glass the sky looked black as on a winter 's night . |
| 16 | Beneath the bandages , you can just discern small buckles , as on a toddler 's harness . |
| 17 | When a guest checks in the receptionist allocates a room showing a green light ; he or she presses a switch and the green light goes off on the board as well as on the cashier 's and housekeeper 's boards . |
| 18 | The actual formation of gangs depends as much on the splits and alliances made by the gang leaders as on the gangs ' internal dynamics . |
| 19 | In such cases the composition of the government will rest as much on negotiations conducted between the parties as on the elections per se . |