Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] on [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they ca n't stop me doing that , I 've made my views on Welsh rugby very clear . |
| 2 | I made my displeasure on that score quite clear to the ecclesiarch 's agent . |
| 3 | ‘ Candidates have been ringing from all over the country wanting copies ; I have only been able to get my hands on two copies yet , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Like my Lord , Hodson L.J. , I prefer to base my judgment on that ground rather than on the alternative ground — that apart from any question of an offer by the wife to return , while she was still in desertion , there might have been trouble , expense or embarrassment if the wife had incurred debts . |
| 5 | Mr. Downham asked the public their views on two subjects currently under discussion . |
| 6 | The Labour party seems to reverse its policies on that issue twice every decade . |
| 7 | Those authorities with a high proportion in low social classes resident within their area both devote a higher proportion of their income to education than do authorities with higher social class constituencies , and spend their money on primary education rather than secondary education ; the reverse being true of ‘ high social class ’ authorities . |
| 8 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
| 9 | Prudent homeowners build their houses on continuous foundations rather than rest them on pier blocks from which they can be bucked when the big shake comes . |
| 10 | To justify their hold on this island far into East Germany , the West Germans must keep up a good show of a thriving community in West Berlin . |
| 11 | But its anxiety on this occasion surely reflects the worries of Mr Gorbachev himself , who is to take part in this weekend 's celebrations in Berlin of the 40th anniversary of East German statehood . |
| 12 | They found that three- , four- , and five-year-olds based their judgements on temporal priority rather than spatial proximity . |
| 13 | The traditional patterns of social organisation with their emphasis on hierarchical differentiation then become a major obstacle to the most efficient use of the technology . |
| 14 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 15 | His Future of Socialism in 1956 had provided a point of reference for the party , and progressives throughout the nation , over the past twenty years with its emphasis on social equality rather on public ownership as the instrument of change . |
| 16 | It also suggests that teachers should oppose their critics on educational grounds rather than being forced continually onto the sterile terrain of vocationalism . |
| 17 | Symbolic interactionists were trenchant in their attack on variable analysis largely because of its failure to provide a sense of the processual and negotiated character of social life . |
| 18 | If authorities are failing to increase their spending on discretionary awards commensurately , that is their decision . |
| 19 | ‘ We tell the players they have to put their minds on one thing alone : winning . ’ |
| 20 | They can argue that they make their position on these things perfectly clear , and that if people vote for them then they know what they are going to get and have no right to claim that sabbatarianism is being forced on them . |
| 21 | Rice , coal and rubber were sold abroad for the exclusive benefit of French shareholders in Europe , and Annamese coolies were driven hard in the mines and on the rubber plantations for paltry pay ; peasant rice growers , too , were frequently robbed of their lands on flimsy pretexts so that bigger holdings could be granted to French colons and the few rich Annamese who collaborated with France . |
| 22 | Their duplicity on both counts undoubtedly smoothed their way to buying Harrods , and now embarrasses those in the British government and the City of London who believed them . |
| 23 | When they have arrived at the fully mobile stage of their development , but have not yet ventured off on their own , they may accompany their mother on short trips away from the ‘ nest , . |
| 24 | Runcom has probably made more original contributions to more branches of the subject than any other geophysicist ; but if history judges his work on that basis alone , it will come up with an incomplete assessment . |
| 25 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |
| 26 | ‘ Ah , but we 're not a poor servant girl , really , are we ? ’ said Dr Neil , his head on one side again , the scar presented to her ; it was a sign that despite his mockery he had accepted her , for with those of whom he was unsure , or not used to , he always attempted to shield them from its sight . |
| 27 | He put his head on one side again . |
| 28 | Of course , I had heard these same sentiments expressed by his lordship on many occasions before , but such was the depth of conviction with which he spoke in this august setting that I could not help but be moved afresh . |
| 29 | Indeed it can not have done if he can lay his hands on enough fossils just in a single surface exposure erm to be able to erm measure the properties of populations , it 's clear there must have been millions of specimens of these beasts present at any one time in the lake . |
| 30 | Asked for his thoughts on armed struggle now that he was voting , Mr Nujoma said : ‘ The colonialists imposed the war on us . |