Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the spring is on private land he had to obtain the permission of the owner , but this was readily given . |
| 2 | The family spent the summer of 1948 in the Lebanese hill resort of Aley , living on 7,000 pounds they had taken with them from Palestine . |
| 3 | ‘ After that , on each check it only calls up those items which have been active since . ’ |
| 4 | First , for each subject on each repetition we start with a data matrix of eight columns : g , a dummy taking the value 0 or 1 depending upon whether the subject did the experiment in a group or individually ; a , a dummy indicating the attempt number ( 1 or 2 ) ; t , the period number ; X t , the output chosen by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; p t , the proportion of ( post-production ) stock sold by that subject on that attempt and in that period ; P t , the output price in that period ; σ , the relevant standard deviation of the price distribution for that subject in that attempt ; and k , the relevant storage cost for that subject on that attempt . |
| 5 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 6 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 7 | " There 's that Gedge boy wants you , " Mrs Blakey said in a puzzled way on each occasion , and on each occasion they replied that they did n't wish to see him . |
| 8 | On each occasion they claimed to have inflicted casualties running into several hundreds killed , and also that the supposed Libyan-backed Islamic Legion was involved . |
| 9 | This force was applied by those long , black-nyloned legs , and though most of the pressure was provided by her left limb , some residual effort pushed her right foot down as well , and on each occasion we speeded up , just momentarily , as her amply-soled Doc Marten pressed against the accelerator . |
| 10 | On each occasion we tried to convey key issues in clear terms and explain how problems could be solved . |
| 11 | On each occasion I took at least half an hour to get ready , chose my clothes carefully , brushed my teeth , put my earrings in , wore bright-red lipstick . |
| 12 | On each occasion I felt that insufficient effort had been made by the surgical teams to decide on the capacity to give informed consent , and I was dismayed at the immediate assumption of incapacity because the patient had been sectioned . |
| 13 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 14 | On each occasion he 's been sent home from hospital because there were no beds available in intensive care . |
| 15 | On each occasion he finished third . |
| 16 | On each occasion it took time to warm a new ball . |
| 17 | On each occasion it has been a joint move with his brother and fellow Great Britain international , Stephen . |
| 18 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 19 | And on each telling she found , intuitively , an unforgettable symbol around which to weave her material . |
| 20 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 21 | On each card she wrote one task that had to be performed , and filed them in sections . |
| 22 | But the association points out that the government already spends £12 300 on each job it creates through its regional incentive scheme . |
| 23 | On each activation it is extended , and information about start-up time is logged . |
| 24 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 25 | When exercise is concentrated on specific areas it will help to tone up the muscles faster and so tighten the skin , giving the impression of increased weight loss in the desired areas . |
| 26 | On political questions it is remarkable how little he has to say . |
| 27 | He argues for the classical form of government ; to rest on political apathy he believes ‘ is a way of preserving liberty by castrating it ’ . |
| 28 | Thus wars result from authoritarian government , while the peaceful conduct of foreign affairs is a function of liberal democracy — for if the people are properly informed on foreign-policy issues they will choose peace over war . |
| 29 | As our first example of deciding on hedonistic grounds we took a choice between two dishes . |
| 30 | This has been the case in the past 30 years , and for those on low wages it has meant a relatively lower contribution has been made towards the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme . |