Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old town of Leigh , part of Southend West constituency , the cockle boats with their huge punts lie at anchor with small vessels that fish for plaice or sole on the Maplin Sands . |
| 2 | Unlike its plainer cousin , it will not bring shame to the wearer by wilting or drooping on the crucial day . |
| 3 | You ca n't walk anywhere here without finding something to astound you , whether it be something sad or cruel on the one hand or quite beautiful on the other . |
| 4 | If an infertility problem is diagnosed , then spermatogenesis may well be depressed or arrested , and in these cases , the later germ cell stages will be absent or deficient on the slides . |
| 5 | These findings suggest that , at the time of the act , helping agencies were regarded as irrelevant to what the person wanted to achieve , or unhelpful on the basis of previous experience of them . |
| 6 | It can be all too easy for a severely visually handicapped pupil to be physically inactive and desk-bound , or dependent on the adult helper . |
| 7 | Progress Software Corp says that Progress/400 4GL for the IBM Corp AS/400 is now available , and is designed to enable users to develop applications for deployment on the AS/400 using 5250 block mode terminals ; applications can be developed on a personal computer or direct on the AS/400 and deployed as client-server or native AS/400 systems . |
| 8 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 9 | The purchaser of shares will pay stamp duty at a half of one per cent on the total consideration paid or payable on the shares . |
| 10 | Leaves up to 6ins ( 15cms ) long , lance-shaped , bright green on the upper side and greyish-green or whitish-grey on the underside , with very short stalks . |
| 11 | It is in the pages of these magazines that I think we can see most clearly how editorial policy , whether it is conscious or unconscious on the part of the editors , operates . |
| 12 | Insufficient because it does not provide what law has to offer , which is first , an authoritative means of deciding what the rules to be applied are : second , an impartial method of applying those rules to particular circumstances , and third , a way of marking that the rules and resultant decisions are binding or non-optional on the parties . |
| 13 | 6.6 Insofar as this Agreement is less restrictive or onerous on the recipient Party in respect of the disclosure or use of any particular information than any undertaking given by the recipient Party prior to the execution of this Agreement in respect of the same information , such information shall to such extent be deemed to have been superseded by this Agreement . |
| 14 | ‘ without going into further detail I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 15 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |
| 16 | I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the ground of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract . |
| 17 | AA 's Road Services ( including Relay , where available on the UK mainland ) and road side assistance from AIT Patrols whilst on the continent . |
| 18 | It was the strangest part of a detective 's job , this building up of a relationship with the dead , seen only as a crumpled corpse at the scene of crime or naked on the mortuary table . |
| 19 | His eyes scanned the wounded propped against half-demolished walls , lying amidst smashed furniture , or sprawling on the floor , and those who lay with faces covered . |
| 20 | Bonds may be bought either as new issue or second-hand on the secondary market . |
| 21 | Fortunately for the British government the West Germans themselves were divided or uncertain on the question of MLF , while its proponents in Washington were also losing ground . |
| 22 | You 'll do yourself an injury , I say , but she knows best no doubt for there is n't a day but she 's off for some long trip or other on the thing . |
| 23 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 24 | The drifts surely could not be more than chest-deep on the massive shire , she thought , and with a bit of luck she would get through . |
| 25 | News travelled faster than light on the small Key . |
| 26 | It will be recalled that the convention 's text is less than clear on the question of its obligatory nature ; it applies ‘ where there is occasion to transmit a … document for service abroad ’ . |
| 27 | Erm but if you translate that into er er into days it 's quite a substantial amount and er erm again in our plan we 'd thought in terms of a complete MOS design er where the input would be probably more on the checking side , than actual on the , actually on the supervision . |
| 28 | Do n't shed too many tears for the publishers of computer magazines and newsletters that major on the IBM Corp market : their readers need aid , comfort and advice more than ever now that the giant 's feet of clay have been so mercilessly exposed . |
| 29 | ‘ A pretty unwelcome one , as you made more than plain on the phone , so why should I bother making an effort to please you ? ’ |
| 30 | And it makes no difference in terms of consumption that here they appear in the catalogue rather than inscribed on the surface of the image since the contemporary catalogue has claims to offer a unifying experience for the viewer . |