Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | E-mail is automatically date stamped on receipt so the order of responses or interaction between accounts on the network is indisputable . |
| 2 | ( c ) Accreditation , i.e. proficiency certification often in some way a summary " or measure of achievement on the course of instruction and often used for selection purposes , or to acknowledge success . |
| 3 | ’ supervisory officers were virtually confined to their office or foot after midnight on the night shift when they had used up their allocation . |
| 4 | No persuasive empirical case has been made for ascribing common psychological , intellectual or moral capacities or characteristics to individuals on the basis of skin colour or physiognomy . |
| 5 | But it will be Friday morning before the the screen of national opinion is drawn back and she discovers whether it is John from Huntingdon or Neil from Islwyn on the other side . |
| 6 | In particular , the Kitchen herbs are liable not to be used unless they are very close to hand for the cook ; in the rush of making up food amongst all the other demands being made at the same time , a trough or window-box of herbs on the Kitchen windowsill or just outside the backdoor will ensure that culinary herbs are used daily . |
| 7 | Each terminal node or group of nodes on the network represents an activity area or department . |
| 8 | ‘ Where an unpaid seller has made part delivery of the goods , he may exercise his lien or right of retention on the remainder , unless such part delivery has been made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to waive the lien or right of retention . ’ |
| 9 | We would line up across the parade ground , shoulder to shoulder , and in a slow forward walk , eyes fixed on the ground , would pick up any cigarette ends or pieces of paper on the gravel . |
| 10 | It is coercive and not mere idle abuse and demands either action or abstention from action on the part of the recipient , so a mere announcement by A that he proposes to strike B is not , for the purposes of the law , a ‘ threat ’ and can not of itself give rise to a claim for damages . |
| 11 | It is seen best when the homologous chromosomes are pairing at meiosis I. Since equivalent loci lie adjacent to one another ( loops or twists indicate these mutations having occurred ) the result is the alteration of the number or sequence of genes on the chromosome . |
| 12 | In literature teaching the emphasis is on shared experience rather than the conveying of information ; a lecture is supposed to provide knowledge , elucidation , or interpretation of texts on the assumption that the auditors have already read them . |
| 13 | This is a Bill certified by the Speaker as containing only provisions relating to the imposition , repeal or regulation of taxation , the imposition or variation of charges on the consolidated fund , etc. , supply , the appropriation , receipt , custody , issue or audit of accounts of public money , the raising or guarantee of any loan or the repayment thereof , or subordinate matters incidental to any of the above topics . |
| 14 | In medieval times , the normal presumption of the courts was that any history or implication of consent on the part of the woman was a valid defence to an appeal of rape . |
| 15 | Expert determination can be , and often is , also applied to voluntary transfer of shares or transmission of shares on the death of a shareholder . |
| 16 | Sea shells enlarge not by growth or magnification in all directions simultaneously , but by the accumulation or accretion of material on the unbounded end of the spiral structure . |
| 17 | Occasionally this is a result of lack of knowledge or lack of sensitivity on the part of urban , middle class curriculum workers , as in Kenya where an early version of the New Primary Approach for African Schools contained four ‘ centres of interest ’ : the Post Office , the railway station ; the game park and the coast . |
| 18 | This case makes clear that normally there can not be liability as a constructive trustee merely for ‘ knowing assistance ’ in a fraudulent design if there was no dishonesty or lack of probity on the part of the alleged trustee , and if knowledge would not have been inferred in the circumstances by an honest and reasonable person . |
| 19 | To dismiss them out of hand is a sign either of defective knowledge or lack of imagination on the reader 's part or of the author 's incapacity to convince . |
| 20 | There is no requirement for an additional written thesis or set of commentaries on the works submitted . |
| 21 | Postcranial change is seen in the progression from Proconsul and/or Afropithecus to Dryopithecus on the one hand , and to Sivapithecus on the other . |
| 22 | Ltd. [ 1931 ] 1 Ch. 138 and Bartlett v. Marshall ( 1896 ) 44 W.R. 251 , in support of his assertion that noise from vehicles on the highway can amount to public and private nuisance . |
| 23 | but the point I 'm trying to make is that the person who made the presentation er o o on er for , for the best of riders , I think he 's rather missed the point because he was talking to you about the , including , more information on er within the T V P and we did discuss , er we did like to make it quite clear during our er discussions that riding of horses on the highway is a matter for the T V P , riding horses on bridleways is a matter that we will have to deal with in basic in time . |
| 24 | As with all the social services , it would be foolish to assume that executors of policy on the ground are always the obedient poodles of those who think up grand designs . |
| 25 | Moreover , statistics show that competition for places on the European Tour is increasing every year . |
| 26 | The passenger and apron services staff are responsible for some cargo handling , ensuring that standards of safety on the airfield can be maintained and providing portering facilities to the travelling public . |
| 27 | In a world like this , merchant ships went around armed against pirates , and non-Spanish merchant ships which sailed to South America found that citizens of towns on the ‘ Spanish Main' ( the mainland area which is now the coast of Venezuela ) would ask to be forced to trade . |
| 28 | There were even pictures of ships and groups of Wrens on the walls . |
| 29 | Pipe names and/or addresses on the envelopes , and times of collection on the timetable notice . |
| 30 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |