Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Qaddafi writes about constraints , compulsion , oppression , but as characteristics of states based on political rather than on social ( ‘ natural ’ ) bonds . |
| 2 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 3 | Such judgements , however , are best made as close to the action as possible rather than on a theoretical basis a long way away . |
| 4 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 5 | To achieve this effectively and on a large scale the teaching force would have to concentrate upon the narrow limits which had been set . |
| 6 | The audit needs to be carried out on a periodic rather than on an ad hoc basis , and , like any other rational evaluation , needs to be conducted in a systematic way . |
| 7 | If anything , Carter seem more relaxed and sane here than on previous occasions when I 've met them back in Blighty . |
| 8 | Many animals are lighter underneath than on the back , or ‘ counter-shaded ’ . |
| 9 | The wider range of styles prompts five vocalists ; Souzay is the least satisfactory , sounding woolier here than on the Fauré set , but again , his intuitive style more than makes amends . |
| 10 | At high frequencies , the impedances of the series and parallel arms are again high and low respectively but on account of series inductance and parallel capacitance . |
| 11 | Darwin was aware that many ‘ secondary ’ sex differences were evident at birth ( or hatching ) and distinguished between the two categories on functional rather than on ontogenetic grounds . |
| 12 | In summer rufous above and on breast . |
| 13 | The idea of basing decisions on generalisations about the elderly rather than on the needs of individual elderly patients has also met with criticism on purely ethical grounds . |
| 14 | Past political decisions justify coercion because , and therefore only when , they give fair warning by making the occasions of coercion depend on plain facts available to all rather than on fresh judgments of political morality , which different judges might make differently . |
| 15 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 16 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 17 | If any such event referred to in this Sub-Clause shall occur , termination shall become effective forthwith or on the date set forth in such notice . |
| 18 | The river Trent has always flooded , and nowhere more so than on the levels between where its own waters and those of the Yorkshire Aire flow out into the Humber . |
| 19 | Our time was running short now and on Sunday we made a dash across the Minch , an exhilarating run in hot sun , fresh breeze and white-capped seas , with our auxiliary sail pulling strongly . |
| 20 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 21 | is concerned erm we ask er companies questions about the trend in employment over the past four months and the expected trend and we then calculate from that and the numbers are at the back of the book , pages seven page seventy one basically and on the graphs which follow . |
| 22 | the grass-covered trays , once an hour from 12.20 p.m. to 22.20 p.m. and on the following day at 09.40 a.m. and 10.40 a.m . |
| 23 | We wish to see the key role of church and other voluntary-aided schools secured and available equally and on the same criteria to all religions . |
| 24 | It was hot then but on the race day it was cloudy and cool . |
| 25 | If this is the case then society and organisations , far from being pluralist in nature , are , in fact , elitist so that on any given issue there may be a small group that exercises a great deal of power . |
| 26 | At no time did I ever have one of them ever say to me that they were erm against foxes , but all of a sudden we find ourselves being issued with a er petition from tenant farmers which says that they are against er people like me that er er pro banning , it 's very like er Mr , we ca n't attack Mr cos he 's no longer here but on the , on the issue of er , I C I brought ou . |
| 27 | ‘ Les was the same off-stage as on a very funny man , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The sheer drama , so often greater offstage than on … |
| 29 | Position on main rather than on secondary rail routes and especially at crossroads in the network ( nodal points ) was an important factor for growth . |
| 30 | ( both verbally and on paper ) ; |