Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument rests in part on the pervasive nature of deixis ( see Chapter 2 below ) in natural languages , for sentences like ( II ) are true or false only relative to contextual parameters , thanks to the fact that I , now and the tense of am are variables given specific values only on particular occasions of utterance ( i.e. ( II ) is true only when spoken by certain speakers , those who are sixty-three , or true of individuals only at certain times , when they are sixty-three ) : ( 11 ) I am now sixty-three years old These facts seem to establish that truth conditions must be assigned to utterances , i.e. sentences with their associated contexts of utterance , not to sentences alone ( or , if one likes , truth conditions include context conditions ) . |
| 2 | of all participatory sports facilities , unless we get more capital for our local authorities they will be able to spend money only on basic repairs ? |
| 3 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |
| 4 | The CPA 1987 is similar to the SGA 1979 and the SGSA 1982 with respect to merchantibility and fitness for purpose , as it imposes liability only on those acting " in the course of a business " . |
| 5 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |
| 6 | Listeners elsewhere in Scotland will be able to hear Radio nan Gaidheal 's evening programmes only on medium wave and in a later slot , as listeners have indicated that the present 6:15 to 7:30pm slot is too early and clashes with prime time Gaelic television . |
| 7 | Since my appointment to chair the Working Group I had seen Mr Baker only on one occasion . |
| 8 | Random checks only on accessible parts is still the rule . |
| 9 | Most private owners discovered the use of a tail and wing-tip dolly a long time ago , making it possible to tow out with a car single-handedly on most days . |
| 10 | ARGO is controlled by an IBM-PC , and will operate in a wide range of environments , storing data locally on floppy disk or transmitting the values to a collection site via telephone , radio or satellite links . |
| 11 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 12 | Paul thus neatly avoided a vote expressly on this issue , which might have revealed the Council fathers to have been more or less evenly divided . |
| 13 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 14 | It 's go it 's you can hear the words better on that one . |
| 15 | At the same time that this mischief is done , the wood itself is ( timber excepted ) but of a miserable account , as any one may suppose , when he is informed , that these shaws have a fence only on one side , and consequently are exposed to be eaten by the cattle that graze in the fields ; hence there is an imperfect system of wood , an injured one of corn , and wretched fences ; by aiming at too much , nothing arrives at perfection . |
| 16 | The Thatcher Government has lost a vote only on rare occasions . |
| 17 | If he boldly avowed his real purpose thus publicly , he put himself in the wrong , and his cause past any help from the law , which would tamper here in the march only on unassailable grounds . |
| 18 | The man who actually had the lease or paid the rent anyway on this flat was a man who worked sorting for the Post Office . |
| 19 | first pictures of the big game in Goals Extra on Central tomorrow when we 'll also have news of Hereford 's home match against Doncaster … as for the other sport … here 's Chris Moore |
| 20 | There were pilots getting their aircraft away on two engines , with armourers hanging on underneath checking the bombs , incendiaries blazing and HE S exploding in all directions . |
| 21 | The soft conventionalist could find in that exceedingly abstract consensus a convention that judges must follow whatever conception of law best justifies coercion , and he could then argue , via the route of declaring some conception best on that standard , that this abstract convention actually includes , within its implicit extension , the proposition that precedent cases must be followed when there is no difference in moral principle between the facts presented in the precedents and those in the present case . |
| 22 | Other specialist methods of capture including the shrimp , or push , net , the drop-net , and rod and line fishing with barbless hooks , will be dealt with in a later article , as will the special methods of transporting the captives home on long journeys on a hot summer 's day , which present special problems , which need to be overcome . |
| 23 | JTR had chickened out and was travelling south - ‘ we saw the first snows fall before we left … ’ — to write up his chapter retrospectively on previous rambles in Skye , for some obscure reason . |
| 24 | two people book a small mobile home on any high season depart from Saturday the tenth of July oh that 's after you , oh wait a minute , until twenty third of August and only pay the low season charge , save , save over thirty pound per |
| 25 | I lower myself into a firewood chair , placing the legs carefully on solid planks of floorboard . |
| 26 | With Greenidge also on 85 not out , the nine-wicket win was rather comprehensive . |
| 27 | She said if I used Head and Shoulders now on this it would revert back because it has such a sa a strong P H balance in Head and Shoulders it has the same effect as reversing it . |
| 28 | The feelings of outrage are the same as when large numbers of children are taken from their homes simultaneously on unsubstantiated allegations of child abuse . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ says Freddie , bending his lips upwards on one side of his face into a suggestion of general benevolence , but moving them only sparingly for the purpose of articulation . |
| 30 | ‘ If somebody needs a technical briefing today on switching systems , I 'd have to pass , ’ says Speakes , 51 . |