Example sentences of "or [prep] [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appendix 4 to the 17th Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Community states that ‘ Parliament does not require to be consulted before or during negotiations on a treaty or before a text is initialled ’ . |
| 2 | Formally clipped bay-trees trimmed into shapes as balls , pyramids or cones look superb outside front-doors or as eye-catchers on a terrace or patio ; rosemary can serve the same purpose , and in a smaller way , so can rue , lavender , sage and cotton lavender . |
| 3 | This may be in the form of a restricted zone in which the linkage may not lie , a definition of the order in which positional modifications can take place , or of restrictions on the local or global energy changes that can take place . |
| 4 | They would ride , most of them , if they had to be put on a horse while needing the use of crutches to walk or with splints on every bone . |
| 5 | Hot liquids , whether in a kettle or pot on the cooker , or in cups on the table or in the hand , should always be dealt with carefully , especially when there are young children because even an apparently small volume of liquid can cause severe scalding . |
| 6 | The 11 were arrested on Thursday morning and charged — along with NatWest Investment Bank , County NatWest Securities and UBS Phillips & Drew Securities — on 14 counts of conspiracy to defraud persons dealing in the shares of Blue Arrow or NatWest Bank or in options on the FT-SE 100 index . |
| 7 | ‘ If the parties have agreed the basis of taxation it would , I think , be an improper exercise of the court 's discretion to direct the taxation on some other basis , unless satisfied that there had been some conduct on the part of the mortgagee disentitling him to costs or to costs on the agreed basis . |
| 8 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 9 | The interior surface of the vault was covered and decorated in various ways : by stucco , marble or stone facing , by mosaic or by paintings on the plain stucco . |
| 10 | It can usually be found on banks of channels or around pools on the marshes . |