Example sentences of "[coord] on [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This room was rarely used except by posher locals , who were very thin on the ground , or on really big occasions when people overflowed from the public bar and snug . |
| 2 | This discussion may be based entirely on ‘ gut feel ’ or on more objective things like statistics of record sales or radio play . |
| 3 | This may be by way of theory , or on more matter-of-fact lines about technique or such questions as composition . |
| 4 | Much online catalogue research has been carried out on outdated , first-generation systems , or on specially developed " toy " systems which do not access real files and are in no way suitable for live use in a library . |
| 5 | Fifty three benign strictures were identified , the diagnosis being based on endoscopic biopsy specimens in 12 instances , surgical specimens in 27 , and on both endoscopic and surgical specimens in nine cases . |
| 6 | Krupp expected and received more consideration than Theodor Boeninger of Duisburg , whom the regional administration merely recommended for the title of Commercial Counsellor ( Kommerzienrat ) because he was wealthy , a capable industrialist , active in public and church life and had supported the government in elections and on both municipal and district councils . |
| 7 | Amdahl Corp is not known as an IBMulator for nothing : it too is cutting its dividend — to five cents a share this year from a dime last year , in an effort to conserve its capital base : the company , which reported a first quarter $240m loss after a $243m restructuring charge — figures , page seven — said its revenues were lower than expected because of soft economic conditions and competitive pressure on prices ; it also said that while it was committed to the IBMulator business , it plans to expand its open systems products line because demand is increasing in that field ; it is also enhancing our Huron applications development and production system , which creates applications that run without change in both proprietary and open environments and on both large and desktop systems , the company added , saying that its objective is to turn Huron into an industry standard and to develop a growing business in open systems for large-scale computing . |
| 8 | Weasels , in any case , very rarely tackle mature rabbits , preferring to concentrate on the very small ones and on even smaller mammals . |
| 9 | The cold plunge was in the adjoining massage room , and on surprisingly weak legs he made his way there and gratefully dived into the plunge . |
| 10 | There have been relatively few studies of modern cultural institutions outside the dominant fields of press and broadcasting , but on cinema see Mayer ( 1948 ) and on more recent approaches see Albrecht , Barnett and Griff ( 1970 ) . |
| 11 | Visual observation in the Auvergne uplands gave the distinct impression that autumn grazing levels are not as high as in the Welsh uplands judging by the height of vegetation in pastures and on more extensive grassland areas . |
| 12 | Introductory essays on various Norfolk-related themes and on more general subjects such as ‘ The Civic Face 1700–1900 ’ . |
| 13 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 14 | With the wind advantage in the second half , St Aloysius took command and on only two occasions did Galashiels set up a sustained attack . |
| 15 | The reverse of both tiles was damaged , and on only one of them the letters NDS END could just be made out , but Martha could not be mistaken . |
| 16 | Investigations will be carried out in six urban areas concentrating on small firms located in managed workspaces and on less conventional new enterprises , such as community-based initiatives of one kind or another . |
| 17 | This is a highly unusual painting in a number of ways , not least because no such royal portrait could ever have existed , including as it does , and on almost equal status with the king , the figure of his ambitious minister the Count-Duke of Olivares . |
| 18 | Some of the consultants were found to have spent money from the project on gifts and on unnecessarily high-priced hotel rooms . |
| 19 | Every third day they are not allowed to enter the forest ; and on all important religious occasions — at mourning , the birth of twins , the appearance of the new moon , the departure of a chief , in menstruation or child-birth — they may not enter the forest until special rituals have been performed by men . |
| 20 | But on nearly all occasions the answers have actually seemed to me not to require any special insight into unique cultural peculiarities . |
| 21 | Owing much in design to S. Vitale in Ravenna but on more elaborate lines , it was originally symmetrical and had a western entrance with atrium and two-storeyed gallery ; the courtyard here was large and had a capacity of 7000 . |
| 22 | Slade LJ also decided in favour of Cheall but on more modest grounds . |
| 23 | C. C. correctly rejected mismatching probes on 33/40 trials when the green figure was on the left , but on only 21/40 trials with green figures on the right . |