Example sentences of "[adj] to [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the effects of cold on its battery prevented her being ‘ patched ’ through direct to London on the satellite link . |
| 2 | After Goose Bay , where she had controlled the plane as it climbed through thick ice-laden cloud to eleven thousand feet , they had flown direct to Narsarssuaq on the southern tip of Greenland . |
| 3 | The North Viking Graben is ‘ nothing new for BP ’ in terms of its geological characteristics , which are similar to play-types on the UKCS . |
| 4 | Standard memory is 4Mb expandable to 100Mb on the motherboard . |
| 5 | Money from the fund was payable to depositors on the insolvency of a recognised bank or licensed institution . |
| 6 | Suspended sentence — activation — whether activation of a suspended sentence is subject to restrictions on the maximum aggregate term of imprisonment which may be imposed in particular circumstances |
| 7 | Under the previous system , works whose value had not been declared for taxation purposes were subject to taxation on the full sale price which was a severe disincentive to sellers . |
| 8 | Employment law provides employees with a range of rights including the right not to be unfairly dismissed , the right not to be subject to discrimination on the grounds of race or sex , and the right for women to receive the same pay as men if employed to do the same work or if the work is considered to be of equal value . |
| 9 | Restrictions on the visiting of parents and relatives to the children were common , with 71 per cent of the parents subject to limits on the frequency and timing of contact ( p. 163 ) . |
| 10 | They are also subject to spot-checks on the roads . |
| 11 | Many leases deal with rent review dates by stating that the initial rent will be subject to review on the day of and thereafter in every [ fifth ] anniversary of that date during the term . |
| 12 | You might er be subject to delays on the A thirty four between Botley and Hinksey Hill where there are some roadworks on the southbound carriageway . |
| 13 | He sees teaching as a rational activity amenable to improvement on the basis of research and development . |
| 14 | His body flopped brokenly from one strut to the next , cartwheeling ungainly to crump on the earth . |
| 15 | While George Bush was content to soft-pedal on the communist state 's human rights record , President Clinton has indicated that he intends to be tougher . |
| 16 | Its colour was described as ‘ full red with smoky points ’ : the red shaded to black on the face and tail . |
| 17 | , who called the upcoming meeting with the Concorde group as soon as the results were published , reacted angrily to UK press criticism that previous US AZT trials had been rushed , pointing out that the trials were curtailed only because regulators judged , once AZT appeared to be inhibiting AIDS , that their continuation was unfair to patients on the placebo side of the trial . |
| 18 | Once you get accustomed to life on the range , it 's hard to go back to being a city slicker . |
| 19 | vulnerable to accidents on the roads and in the playground |
| 20 | The federal Appeals Court in San Francisco had dismissed the case prior to trial on the grounds that even if Malcolm had manufactured the quotes , they remained legitimate because they amounted to a " rational interpretation " of what Masson had said . |
| 21 | I mean I am totally opposed to vigilantes on the street , and that 's what I think a parish constable service er , runs the risk becoming . |
| 22 | It should also be noted that in determining the amount of income available up to the end of any year one looks at the aggregate amount of the income arising under the settlement in that year and in any previous year which has not been distributed and one deducts an amount equal to tax at the rate applicable to trusts on the aggregate amount of income , arising under the settlement in the year of payment and any previous year , which has not been distributed . |
| 23 | Some preventive rules , together with endangerment offences , can be seen in a variety of other situations , but nowhere is there such a detailed and fairly widely known set of standards as that applicable to drivers on the roads . |
| 24 | She stooped , put the bottle between her knees , straining and tugging , her hands searing to blisters on the rough horn handle of the long corkscrew . |
| 25 | Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together . |
| 26 | : Due to constraints on the availability of data pads it was not always possible to obtain test data from the original source . |
| 27 | This covers the Policyholder 's legal liability to domestic employees e.g. if a cleaner employed by the Policyholder , is injured in the Policyholder 's home , due to negligence on the part of the Policyholder , or a fault in the premises or property supplied by the Insured , there would be cover under this section of the policy . |
| 28 | ‘ The Electricity of France wishes to announce a power stoppage due to work on the main transformer . |
| 29 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 30 | Part way through this episode something was due to malfunction on the console and the Doctor would say something like , ‘ Quick , Susan , go and check the Fault Locator . ’ |