Example sentences of "or the [noun pl] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's pitch dark and you have to stand up dead straight and if you wobble at all you get spiked either by the glass on the walls or the nails on the door . |
| 2 | It is proposed to give the Directors the authority to alter the schemes to take account of or comply with any changes in any proposed or existing legislation affecting the schemes , or to take account of any take-over or reconstruction of the Company or to obtain or maintain favourable taxation treatment of the Company , any subsidiary or any participant , in each case excluding any changes which affect the basic structure of the schemes or the limits on the number of shares which may be subscribed for under the schemes . |
| 3 | The active contemplation of a flower , a butterfly , children in the park , or the birds on the bird table are all part of the joy of living , to be appreciated now as never before . |
| 4 | Forget the texts I spent months researching and editing , or the nineteenth-century works from the collection of the Neue Gallery under the cloths , or the texts on the walls , or my use of black and white for nearly thirty years which was used in Kassel as a reference to the Documenta IX logo ; these are all mere details in the formalist 's eye . |
| 5 | I am tempted to think that some such process is involved in the development of repeated structures , such as the segments of a worm , or a flower 's petals , or the stripes on a zebra . |
| 6 | Not like now , there 's this , or that , or the computers on the blink |
| 7 | When his firm first experimented with making a combine-harvester , the blades they used on the cutter were smooth-edged like the swap-hook , or scythe , or the blades on a reaper-binder . |
| 8 | He would blend into Wimbledon until he was indistinguishable from the trees , the homing children , the lollipop ladies , or the gables on the red brick houses . |
| 9 | In other words , he could n't benefit from the property or the dividends on the shares , or any part of the gift . ’ |