Example sentences of "on [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1983 witnessed the last rites on perhaps the most famous freight line in the country — to Consett . |
| 2 | PHILIP HUNT on perhaps the hardiest of corals . |
| 3 | On perhaps the more important grounds of economic incentives and economic welfare the case is very mixed , with arguments for and against each type of tax finely balanced . |
| 4 | Ramsey lectured on all the later part of the Bible and on the central Christian doctrines . |
| 5 | You will have heard that if you do stick to a diet and lose weight , then your metabolism will drop so dramatically that the weight piles on all the more easily in the future . |
| 6 | The leader in the second paper , headed ‘ An Affront to Human Dignity , ’ was on much the same lines , ending with a demand for a Royal Commission to look into the ‘ hidden and possibly evil secrets of the laboratories of Britain 's universities ’ and an appeal to ‘ right-thinking people ’ to raise their voices against this outrageous treatment of a helpless baby . |
| 7 | Lord Southwood of Odhams Press acquired his 51 per cent shareholding in the Daily Herald between the wars on much the same basis . |
| 8 | This is an even more beguiling picture since the forecasted increase in demand will bring the existing plants up to capacity and necessitate the building of a new one , of course on much the same technological base as exists today . |
| 9 | The site in the Coln Valley could be expected to have been on much the same pattern , though a smaller scale . |
| 10 | Gramley ( p. 20 ) seems to be on much the same track when he notes , concerning I saw the library to have burned down : What the speaker saw was not an occurrence , but physical evidence for a condition , a state ; for example , the speaker saw the site , the ruins . |
| 11 | ( In fact , the edition is based on much the same materials as will be used for the Rameau Opera omnia now in progress . ) |
| 12 | But an army marches on its boots and relies on much the same footwear as the soldiers of the past . |
| 13 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 14 | He dared venture out on only the balmiest of days , lest he catch cold . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that he was personally on only the periphery of the Polanski affair , he was caught up in the backwash , in the resultant discussion of the wider issues of the counter-culture , and it was in this category that the critics had firmly placed their new star as the analysis of his role in Easy Rider continued through the run-up to the Oscar presentations and beyond . |
| 16 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 17 | You can , for example , create exercises on only the 500 most frequent words , or those words which you have put into your ‘ Unit 15 sluice ’ or your ‘ Banking sluice ’ . |
| 18 | Sadly the most vicious of these brought down the rig on ‘ Strictly Business ’ on only the second outing for this interesting-looking Castro newcomer now owned by Nigel Musto ( RCYC ) . |
| 19 | The board now seek control on only the parameters of profit , cash and broad strategic direction . |
| 20 | If we are to hold out any hope of a substantial improvement in the pay and conditions of the farm worker , therefore , trade unionism seems to offer a means of achieving these ends on only the largest farming enterprises , where plant bargaining above the AWB rates becomes a possibility . |
| 21 | You may then enter the type of change you require and then carry this out on only the current record or elect to make the change globally , that is on every record with similar field entries . |
| 22 | I would not wish to have a debate on only the ERM because many other matters need to be raised . |
| 23 | So cold was the weather that Sergeant Phillips died of hypothermia on only the second night . |
| 24 | Just as Britain tried to ‘ deal with ’ water pollution with longer pipes and the principle of dilute and disperse , its reliance on exactly the same policy has drawn it into conflicts over air pollution . |
| 25 | Yet the fact of West European industrial growth also had the opposite effect too : these places were not drawn into the new scheme of things in exactly the same way or on exactly the same conditions as France , Britain , Belgium and Holland — the original members of the industrial club . |
| 26 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 27 | In this instance the directors are presumably the same as the shareholders , and the intention was , undoubtedly , to effect the motor vehicles ' transfer and payment of the dividend on exactly the same date to avoid a loan account debit and a s 419 assessment . |
| 28 | As you replace the second piece , note which needles hold which horizontal band of the first piece and make sure the bands of the second piece are put on exactly the same needles . |
| 29 | Second , and by the same token , the way was opened to setting Christianity on exactly the same footing as any other religion . |
| 30 | They can continue contributing to the policy on exactly the same terms and conditions as before . |