Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't suppose that that graveyard ever looked prettier than on our Mary 's wedding day . |
| 2 | His return route is not known but he was much quicker than on his way out as he arrived in Moscow at the beginning of February , 1718 , only 8 months after he left Peking . |
| 3 | And on twenty five minutes , Nigel Mott got that opening goal as an excellent through ball from Paul Biddle found him in space and he placed the ball wide of the Fairmile goalkeeper Mark Carrigan ; Fairmile were not to be perturbed by this as on their half an hour Wayne Glossop went close for the home side . |
| 4 | Trust it to be like this though on my half-day ! ’ |
| 5 | Coherence is thus associated with complexity ; the meaning of the text is the product of the interaction of its parts , but this interaction depends as much on their difference from one another as on their similarity . |
| 6 | The museum was more crowded than on her previous visit , alive with the subdued noise of a lot of people trying to make no sound . |
| 7 | As the train approached Edinburgh 's Caledonian Station I found I was as nervous as on my first journey to Bletchley . |
| 8 | Terry was still feeling the sadness of leaving his mother and was more subdued than on their last leavetaking . |
| 9 | ‘ No , nothing at all , not a mention of Elsie at all except on her birthday . |
| 10 | It would n't surprise me at all if on my next visit to Sweden all the pedestrians were wearing miners ' lamps . |
| 11 | Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’ |
| 12 | The seating capacity was slightly less than on their L.C.C . |
| 13 | Referee David Axcell passed it fit an hour before kick-off after deciding the mud was no worse than on his hometown beach at Southend . |
| 14 | An article in the Stamford Mercury on 28 December 1950 claimed that St. Thomas ' Church was where Queen Eleanor 's funeral cortege stayed the night in December 1290 whilst on its journey to Westminster . |
| 15 | The effect on small firms could be greater than on their larger counterparts . |
| 16 | The weather was not quite as nice as on our two previous trips , but it kept dry . |
| 17 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |