Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [conj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 2 | You can then use this to ensure that on each wall your tiles will be centred accurately on major features such as window reveals , with a border of cut tiles of equal width at each side . |
| 3 | I think it 's exciting to think that on the rare occasion we feature a non farming issue , we discover what a group of internationalists our readers are , and how in touch you are with current affairs . |
| 4 | But I 'm very interested to learn that on Monday when er the Autobus did n't |
| 5 | It is interesting to note that on a descending value of energy , maize is greatest followed by barley , followed by oats . |
| 6 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 7 | You have the problem of how much to tax because on the one hand you 're trying to promote this rich peasant economy and not erm tax them too heavily because you do n't want to , them to not invest with |
| 8 | This makes the lock much stiffer to operate than on the earlier types of glider . |
| 9 | The smooth finish means clothes are less likely to snag than on ordinary basketwork . |
| 10 | The League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) appeared to be moving closer to collapse when on March 30 its central committee failed to muster a quorum for a plenary session . |
| 11 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 12 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 13 | Knowing the time the dot was in any particular position , Libet was able to calculate that on average the experience of the conscious intention to act was reported as beginning about 200 msec before the movement began . |
| 14 | In practice , this is unlikely to happen except on a small scale in the present political climate . |
| 15 | I do n't like heroes , so I was pleased to find that on the way up to Gorffwysfa Norman fussed and worried as anyone might when faced with the return to climbing after a long break . |
| 16 | He was the first to concede that on occasions a judge got it wrong to the extent that a sentence was passed which was wholly unacceptable . |
| 17 | But that in no way affected my admiration for what Winston had done , and I am pleased to think that on one or two occasions I have been able to render him some modest service in the way of a reward for this particular display of public courage . |
| 18 | The work is most fascinating , the the records they hold are quite er large and erm , I 'm pleased to say that on their request , the Conservative group have have given the records of our group meetings since nineteen sixty to nineteen eighty-six to the , erm , record office , and before anyone rushes over , there is a , a , a slight before they 're released to the public . |
| 19 | Agreement on that process was more difficult to reach than on the technology , according to one of the six . |
| 20 | Although such inferences are not always logically entirely unimpeachable , given the above premisses , the pluralist case becomes difficult to defend and on balance the only reasonable option seems to be Spinoza 's own unitarist alternative , viz. that there is only one substance which is in fact identical with the whole of reality , and that the only plurality there is or can be is the plurality of " attributes and modifications " . |
| 21 | You , you , you 're right to say that on the whole there , the managerial farms were in , in the north , although there w there was clearly some in the south |
| 22 | Well it 's best to use that on the |
| 23 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |