Example sentences of "[coord] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an art museum , the works may be described from room to room , whether in a book or on a sound guide . |
| 2 | ( Tel : ( 0293 ) 774535 ) Free information and support on holidays for people who are old or disabled , or on a low income . |
| 3 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 4 | ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads . |
| 5 | They wo n't pay a young act any money , but they will let them play third on the bill on a Monday night or on a Thursday night when there are n't many people in the venue . |
| 6 | The A&R people will listen to them at their own convenience , which may be at midnight after a gig or on a flight across the Atlantic . |
| 7 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 8 | After half an hour the gathering breaks up and the recruits escort their visitors off to lunch , or on a tour of camp for yet more photographs . |
| 9 | I often saw you sprawling on the floor or on a park bench , a joyous sunburst of creases radiating from your abandoned crotch , your jumping fly . |
| 10 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |
| 11 | There are practical reasons for this arrangement : any manual system of record-keeping relies either on heavy duplication of information , sited wherever that information may be routinely required , or on a complex system of cross-referenced card-indexes which provide guides to relevant documentation . |
| 12 | You can write your weight in a diary or on a chart or graph and see progress develop in the right direction over time . |
| 13 | To share in it was so distinctive a mark of membership that , in time of persecution in the second and third centuries , pieces of the consecrated bread were taken round to baptized believers languishing in prison or on a sickbed . |
| 14 | We may take a mild-mannered horse , one that is bottom of the pecking order at home , out to ride in the company of others — perhaps at a show or on a trail ride — and find to our embarrassment that it is threatening to kick every horse in sight . |
| 15 | The consequences of the revolution were ramified , and the outcome rarely depended on Qaddafi 's decision to issue a decree , or on a cadre 's negotiations with a shaikh over its implementation . |
| 16 | A disk will take up to 100 photos , which can be displayed on a television by a Photo-CD player or on a computer screen by a machine with a CD-ROM XA standard drive . |
| 17 | Pasture improvement can be undertaken either by the individual crofter , after obtaining the ‘ apportionment , , of his share of the common grazing , or on a township basis . |
| 18 | The average one-third ownership reflected the great pressure there was on the family farmer when a member of the family came home , or on a part-time farmer who was trying to expand with a view to becoming full-time . |
| 19 | Fume cupboards may be manually operated or on a time clock control . |
| 20 | We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training . |
| 21 | This arrangement can be either on an Acceptance ( Bill of Exchange ) basis or on a Deferred Payment basis . |
| 22 | Most bottom-dwelling trilobites preferred to live at a particular water depth , or on a particular type of sea bottom ( mud , sand or lime ) . |
| 23 | If you travel on a flight from another airport or at a different time , or on a different day , a flight supplement is often payable . |
| 24 | Assemble ideas , eg for a story , poem or description , on paper , or on a computer screen , or in a discussion with others , and show some ability to produce a draft from them and then to redraft and revise as necessary . |
| 25 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 26 | Show an increased awareness that a first draft is malleable , eg by changing the form in which the material is cast , eg from a story to a playscript , or by moving text around ( either on paper or on a computer screen ) , or by altering sentence structure or choice of vocabulary . |
| 27 | ( vi ) They should have opportunities to create , polish and produce ( individually or collaboratively , by hand or on a word processor ) extended written texts , appropriately laid out and illustrated , such as class newspapers , anthologies of stories or poems , guidebooks , etc. ( vii ) Pupils will write in response to a wide range of stimuli , including stories , plays and poems they have read and heard , television programmes they have seen , their own interests and experiences , and the unfolding activities of the classroom . |
| 28 | Other restrictions apply to the felling or cropping of trees , even the collection of forest litter , either altogether ( where forests are ‘ no-go ’ areas ) or on a rotational basis ( as suggested by Glover ( 1946 ) for hilly areas in the Punjab ) . |
| 29 | Wearing the portrait of a military or political leader upon a ring or on a coin mounted as a jewel was an obvious sign of allegiance ; other portraits of unknown individuals were presumably private commemorations . |
| 30 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |