Example sentences of "[conj] on [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some families , across the Border or on their own side of it , pursued deadly feuds which could be settled only by the extermination of an entire family or , grudgingly and with much pressure from the Wardens , a compensatory payment in money or goods . |
| 2 | ’ participation in the nuclear weapons test programme had not had a detectable effect on the participants ' expectation of life , nor on their total risk of developing cancer ’ |
| 3 | They found themselves no longer obliged to depend on the charity of their neighbours , nor on their own industry for a maintenance . |
| 4 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 5 | On Jan. 16 , Yeltsin reported to the Supreme Soviet that on his recent tour of the country to find out the effects of price liberalization he had found that local officials were not implementing government measures for social protection and that producers ' profit margins were too high . |
| 6 | There was no doubt that United were a much more effective side than on their recent visit to Pittodrie in the Cup . |
| 7 | When he eventually turned eighteen his father told him he had no further objection to his being baptised , a decision based more on Rajiv 's co-operative attitude a year before than on his recent coming of age . |
| 8 | To get at the true explanation we must concentrate on the fact that the bureaucracy 's ‘ particular functioning is not directly determined by its class membership , by the political functioning of those classes and functions from which it originates : it depends on the concrete functioning of the state apparatus , i.e. on the place of the state in the ensemble of a formation and on its complex relations with the various classes and fractions ’ . |
| 9 | The narrow valley was overhung on its eastern flank by the immense precipices of Chamlang and on its western side by those of peak 41 . |
| 10 | It is based on the minister 's assertion that there was no delay by the manufacturers , Dista Products Ltd. in giving the Committee on Safety of Medicines ( CSM ) information about accumulation of the drug in the elderly ; nor by CSM in acting on this and on its own reports of adverse reactions . |
| 11 | But despite last night 's developments , Mrs Thatcher is still likely to be in a minority of one — both on completion date for monetary union and on her continued opposition to the European Social Charter of workers ' rights . |
| 12 | She would order things specially for customers and on her periodic visits to ware , houses in Plymouth , would bring back garments thus ordered . |
| 13 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 14 | It was a salutary lesson for me on risking rejection and on my perceived notions of status . |
| 15 | IN recent years I have made several trips to Portugal 's Algarve coast and on my last visit in January this year was presented with a booklet entitled ‘ Cricket in Portugal ’ . |
| 16 | Again , your own lists of goals will depend on your areas of strengths and weaknesses and on your own preference for the order in which to tackle things . |
| 17 | We will be carrying a report in our next issue of the magazine on our AGM ( 24 October ) and on our forthcoming exhibition to be held at the 181 Gallery in Hammersmith , west London this December/January . |
| 18 | The Diesis colt had only two runs last season and on his final outing at York in July he was fourth to Golden Chip after which injury kept him off the course . |
| 19 | Cromwell 's chief of intelligence , almost certainly by the autumn of 1656 and on his own admission by March or April 1657 . |
| 20 | Over the years he has played league cricket and county cricket for Sussex and Glamorgan with resounding success , and on his last trip to England thrilled the crowd with a magnificent display of strokemaking at the Oval , scoring 260 as Pakistan ran up the imposing total of 708 . |
| 21 | It would be no exaggeration to claim that the whole of present-day transplantation surgery is based on his original insight and on his subsequent collaboration with Sir Peter Medawar , which led to the latter 's Nobel Prize . |
| 22 | By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it . |
| 23 | It would n't surprise me at all if on my next visit to Sweden all the pedestrians were wearing miners ' lamps . |
| 24 | If on your first day of testing you see a colour which is the same or darker than the reference colour given in the test , you should go ahead and have intercourse . |
| 25 | But on my recent visit to Ghana I found that my attitude to everyday life in Africa had changed radically — mainly because I was not working on a project whose usefulness I doubted , trying to achieve things and getting frustrated . |
| 26 | He first of all asked for a mandate based not on the distortions of a month 's electioneering but on his 16 months in the leadership , not least his performance on the international stage . |
| 27 | But on his recent visit to the Mission base he was prevented from meeting with the newly contacted group . |
| 28 | But on his first arrival at court , when the Queen herself asked him what he desired , he bowed over her olive hand and , with his lips a millimetre away from the great ring of her power , murmured a single , dangerous word : |
| 29 | A graphic example was given me when on my first day of lecturing in a college of education a student came up and earnestly asked me : " Do you believe the Bible — yes or no ? " |
| 30 | As the train approached Edinburgh 's Caledonian Station I found I was as nervous as on my first journey to Bletchley . |