Example sentences of "on [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the first payment should be on or after the date on which the Deed of Covenant is signed . |
| 2 | With winch or car launches , it is essential to consider whether a cable break could result in a part of the cable falling on or near to a glider or anything else in mid-field . |
| 3 | If you move on or after the 1st April 1991 you will normally lose the reduction although there are certain circumstances when this is not the case . ’ |
| 4 | Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance . |
| 5 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 6 | For a monochrome monitor , where each pixel is either ON or OFF , each bit will control one pixel . |
| 7 | This is why the devices can be both normally on or normally off . |
| 8 | The whiggish notion that such writing might be somehow improved on or even supplanted by the critical mass-production of the anglophone academy is quite self-delusory . |
| 9 | It was an absolute toss-up whether that book ( Das Kapital ) caught on or not . |
| 10 | With Gide and many others in mind , Said observes that virtually no European writer who wrote on or travelled to the Orient in the period after 1800 exempted himself or herself from a quest for sexual experience unobtainable in Europe : |
| 11 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 12 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 13 | It must also be said that a plain boiled ham presented on or off the bone is a delight to the jaded palate and should not be ignored because it remains undistinguished by any special cure . |
| 14 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |
| 15 | It all ended in something like farce , with Capel and Russell unsure whether to press on or come off , but there were still 31 to get and the light was wretched when Gooch called them in . |
| 16 | ‘ No one 's going to see whether you 've got them on or not . |
| 17 | She could n't make out whether he still had his lead on or not . |
| 18 | It did n't matter to her whether he kept it on or not , though she did not particularly like to see how his stump got so chafed and swollen . |
| 19 | Four fences out , Llewellyn made his move , and from the next it was merely a question of whether Party Politics could hold on or whether Romany King could peg him back . |
| 20 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
| 21 | More than half New Yorkers are ‘ minority ’ voters , and roughly two-thirds of them live on or below the poverty line . |
| 22 | For most people , a penny on or off the standard tax rate — that formulation again ! — pales into insignificance compared with their pre-tax income , the inflation rate , the size of their pension and their mortgage interest rate . |
| 23 | Counter-shading is more pronounced in animals that live on or in water . |
| 24 | By finding the structure of these receptors , scientists can develop new drugs that turn them on or off . |
| 25 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 26 | A long-term socio-economic programme in areas where small farms predominate will seek to encourage the amalgamation of small farms into more viable units to correct the age balance and encourage young people to stay on or come into farming in remote areas . |
| 27 | Parties of chimpanzees congregate at fruiting trees irregularly spaced in both location and time and , since the animals eat small soft-bodied fruits in dense clumps , they can feed together and then move on or separate without producing an immediate over-exploitation of resources . |
| 28 | It might be identified on or near machair . |
| 29 | We know that they could live in extremely shallow to very deep-water environments , that most lived on or near the sea bottom , but a few were adapted to open-ocean swimming . |
| 30 | Even when people took an interest in wildlife , and visited wild places , they tended to trample on or otherwise disturb the creatures they admired . |