Example sentences of "on [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come on or else you 'll miss the story , it 's nearly time . |
| 2 | that 's lovely James , that 's fine , OK , you 'd better put plastic spoons on or else you 'll make , be in trouble because if you floated a metal spoon , now what would happen to that ? |
| 3 | Do n't put too much make up on or else it 'll look dead false ! |
| 4 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |
| 5 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 6 | This lists the documents that you 'll need on or shortly before completion , acting for a seller or mortgagor . |
| 7 | Well we could have a person counting and not only are they counting what 's coming out of their junction , but they could do left , straight on or right . |
| 8 | The whiggish notion that such writing might be somehow improved on or even supplanted by the critical mass-production of the anglophone academy is quite self-delusory . |
| 9 | Thereafter the process of breakdown takes place entirely on or just below the surface of the earth . |
| 10 | The short answer is that people 's motives for using media do not seem to have changed much from 1945 to 1990 — whether to combat loneliness , find out what was going on or just relax . |
| 11 | An estimated 12.5 million adults and children are living on or just above income support level , according to DSS estimates . |
| 12 | We care about low pay and low incomes and it 's estimated that in this country this so-called wealthy country that we have about eleven million people now on or just below E C poverty standards . |
| 13 | This is why the devices can be both normally on or normally off . |
| 14 | But I I just Pat was doing it for Bishop 's Stortford on or thereabouts because he sent me all the details about the whale walk . |
| 15 | Even when people took an interest in wildlife , and visited wild places , they tended to trample on or otherwise disturb the creatures they admired . |
| 16 | No fish or crustaceans which would predate on or otherwise damage the polyps . |
| 17 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 18 | A community can tolerate much diversity — more than in Locke 's day when religious conformity was one requirement for full citizenship — but any society has to have some common rules and policies , whether it be in matters as trivial as which side of the road we drive on or as momentous as whether there is capital punishment . |
| 19 | The mineral and organic matter that passes through their guts in the burrowing process is mixed and churned in the gizzard , the calcium content is concentrated by the calciferous gland , and the resulting casts , which arc deposited on or very near the surface , contain more micro-organisms , inorganic minerals , and organic matter in a form available to plants , than does the surrounding soil . |
| 20 | Any bacteria in whole meat joints will be on or very close to the surface and the outside of roast meat gets hot enough to sterilise it . |
| 21 | One should be on or very near the Lark 's Head itself so that will be the correct trihedron . |
| 22 | As the calculations are worked out it is vital that everyone in the Government ensures that all expenditure is scrutinised , that no money is wasted and that cuts do not fall on or anywhere near the people who are worst off in our society . |
| 23 | If this occurs on or close to the skin , it can be observed as redness and it feels warm to the touch . |
| 24 | Some need a flue to carry away exhaust gases , but balanced-flue appliances can be easily installed on or close to any exterior wall . |
| 25 | Snowy owls , northern counterparts of the cosmopolitan eagle owls ( Bubo sp. ) are usually sedentary , wintering on or close to their breeding areas . |
| 26 | It must have been on or about 25 June , before the others had come . |
| 27 | Reports and assumptions such as this continued , off and on , throughout the year and reached a climax in December 1951 in a memorandum from the acting Assistant Secretary of State ( Allison ) to Acheson which reported that from various sources and for various reasons , not least the fact that some 200,000 Chinese communist troops in Kwangsi Province were prepared to move on Indo-China as ‘ volunteers ’ , a large-scale attack against French Union and Vietnamese forces in Tonkin must be expected on or about 28 December . |
| 28 | Count 1 alleged the obtaining of property by deception contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , the particulars being that on or about 16 March 1988 the appellant dishonestly obtained from the Halifax Building Society a cheque for £150,000 by falsely representing ( a ) that his basic annual income was £90,000 , ( b ) that he had never been bankrupt and did not have any judgment or proceedings for debt outstanding and ( c ) that he did not have any bank or other loans or charge/credit card debts . |
| 29 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 30 | On 29 November 1990 the joint administrators of Paramount Airways Ltd. , Roger Arthur Powdrill and Joseph Beaumont Atkinson , issued an originating application against the respondent , Hambros Bank ( Jersey ) Ltd. , seeking , inter alia , ( 1 ) a declaration that the payment of £346,800 made on or about 31 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. held with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; ( 2 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £346,800 ; ( 3 ) a declaration that the payment of £1,300,000 made on or about 4 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Act of 1986 ; and ( 4 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £1,300,000 . |