Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emphasis on technical activities and on what is often , essentially , administration implicitly denies that staff are an asset . |
| 2 | Their skin was as wrinkled and brown as an old football and on their heads were perched steel air-raid helmets . |
| 3 | A seven-member commission had the job of ranking the candidates on the basis of their scientific qualifications and on their performance at an oral examination consisting of a discussion of their scientific work and an academic lesson . |
| 4 | Although he reached an uneasy peace with the Hanoverians , Crewe held privately to his old loyalties and on his death bed he is reported to have called out to Grey : ‘ Dick , do n't you go over to them , do n't you go over to them ’ [ Clarke ] . |
| 5 | Raja James resisted British annexation and on his death in 1868 his title passed to his nephew Charles Johnson , who took the name of Brooke , an active and vigorous administrator of austere though unconventional disposition . |
| 6 | I remain convinced that a democratic majority exists in Scotland for higher spending on public services and on our infrastructure . |
| 7 | Yeah , what I mean , all round agricultural work and on your ? |
| 8 | On the parents ' separation the mother initially left the four children of the marriage with the father in the former matrimonial home but on her subsequently removing one of the children the father applied ex parte for orders , including a residence order , a prohibited steps order and a specific issue order pursuant to section 8 of the Children Act 1989 requiring her to return the child and directing her not to remove any of the children from the father 's care and control . |
| 9 | You 'll see it outside shops and on your Visa Delta debit card when it comes up for renewal . |
| 10 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 11 | Sullivan crawled to the relative security of the chancery 's central corridor and on his walkie-talkie ordered the US marines guarding the compound not to resist , still less to shoot anyone . |
| 12 | Unlike the other Annamese present who wore court robes , he was dressed in the conventional short black gown and white trousers of an ordinary civilian and on his head he wore the traditional black turban of the region . |
| 13 | We may also collect factual information on the ability and attitude of individual pupils and on their background in the subject concerned ; this last is of importance because the level of demand on pupils can only be judged in the knowledge of how far the material concerned is new to them and of their record of success or failure with it in the past . |
| 14 | The vitality of a partnership will depend not only upon its perceived value but on its variety , and ideally it might involve both students and staff in different activities . |
| 15 | The discussion among organised and informed disabled people has always focused on finding new ways to integrate into the mainstream community but on their own terms . |
| 16 | It is inevitable that much of the debate has been on the European Community and on what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said in his opening speech . |
| 17 | ' Any project searching for a shared ‘ female ’ identity in the work may be misleading , yet the shared endeavour by women to succeed in their chosen field and on their own terms is important . |
| 18 | Miss Ellis flinched and glanced in the rear view mirror but continued to talk in her calm , professional voice while Gilly picked at the bits of gum stuck in her straggly hair and on her cheeks and chin . |
| 19 | It was conceded that where the attitude of respect is based on false assumptions and on nothing else , and where it does not cohere with the person 's other attitudes and beliefs , it can not be the foundation of authority . |
| 20 | It is found on our long-sleeve cream T shirt , the short-sleeve version and on our kitchen tea towel . |
| 21 | He has a tattoo of a swallow on his upper left arm and on his left hand a diamond on the first finger , heart on the second , club on the third and spade on the fourth . |
| 22 | Some of this literature concentrates equally on the general socio-economic processes which have engendered rural immigration and on its effects on local communities : it is obvious that a complete understanding depends on this broader perspective . |
| 23 | " The Orthodox clergy and Church in the western area " , he said , " will not assume the status appropriate to their rank so long as this same clergy at the very centre of the state remain in their present condition and on their present level " . |
| 24 | He wore a heavy buff-coloured cardigan and on his head was a wide-brimmed straw hat . |
| 25 | Some improvements in operating efficiency are likely to occur under the pressure of the take-over threat , but they depend on managements recognising current weaknesses and on their having the ability to remedy them . |
| 26 | Mental health teams are essential to the provision of a good service but on their own , without the back-up of others , health professionals may achieve little . |
| 27 | There was a great lake and on it were flamingos like the ones you see every day on Three Island Pond . |
| 28 | It is selected from the pages of the BDN , to which he was a frequent contributor and on whose editorial board he served for a long period : A combined system is one which includes all useful methods and techniques and adapts them and uses them according to the particular needs of the child . |
| 29 | THE new Low Fat Cheesecakes from McVities ( pictured right ) are a long-awaited treat for all those trying to cut down on their fat intake and on their calories . |
| 30 | By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it . |