Example sentences of "or [noun sg] of [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | On other occasions a user may want every document or piece of information on a topic traced , and then high recall must be sought to the detriment of precision . |
| 3 | This allows us to investigate the depth and stability , the malleability or rigidity of attitudes on a topic which is notoriously difficult to investigate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Each terminal node or group of nodes on the network represents an activity area or department . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I sometimes go down to an 18 when maggot fishing or a single brandling or grain of sweetcorn on a 16 , but it is not very often such refinements are necessary . |
| 8 | The presence or absence of signatures on vases , whether epoiesen or egrapsen , appears to conform to no rational system , a matter of whim . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is no all-or-none matching with context , and no all-or-none inclusion or exclusion of candidates on this basis . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Still , there can be no doubt that the first great emigration wave of our period ( 1845–54 ) was essentially a flight from hunger or pressure of population on land , basically in Ireland and Germany , which supplied 80 per cent of all transatlantic migrants in these years . |
| 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 | ( … ) the causee is expected to comply with the causer 's will and there is no assumption or expectation of unwillingness on his or her part . |
| 17 | There is no doubt of the need to understand more about the impact of access or termination of access on children , adoptive parents , and birth parents . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This may be due to not running Restore or lack of space on Storage Media . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ the clearest and simplest remedy for this evil of litigation about charity , by which so often the kindly intention of a testator is defeated , and still more often a considerable part of the benefaction is wasted in legal costs , would be for Parliament to enact a modern definition or classification of charities on some broad lines . |
| 24 | There is no requirement for an additional written thesis or set of commentaries on the works submitted . |