Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that on one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes ( 14 ) ; on another deep black eyes ( 15 ) ; and on another blue eyes ( 16 ) . |
| 2 | Unfortunately only interim findings were available at that time and the researchers were careful not to draw conclusions , but there was some evidence that on cost savings the scheme was superior to conventional community care and that strain on carers was decreasing in the experimental group . |
| 3 | Overnight the new Soviet government , with plans for social welfare that on paper went far beyond those of Scandinavia or Britain in 1945 , had to take over . |
| 4 | Baldwin lanced this boil fairly quickly and quietly by an announcement to a party meeting on 11 February : ‘ I do not feel justified in advising the party again to submit the proposal for a general tariff to the country except on the clear evidence that on this matter public opinion is disposed to reconsider its judgment of two months ago . ’ |
| 5 | Smooth plains are distinguished from intercrater plains by a far lower number density of small craters and by clear evidence that on the smooth plains there has occurred the obliteration or partial obliteration of craters . |
| 6 | It was perhaps partly for this reason that on 21 September he ordered General Enrique Varela ( who had taken over from Yagüe when the latter became ill ) to make a detour to Toledo , to relieve what remained of nearly 2,000 Nationalists who had been besieged in the giant fortress — the alcazar — since the end of July . |
| 7 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 8 | It was to try to shed some further light on this matter that on 2 July 1992 , by way of a written question , I asked the Government its view of the legal status of agreements appended to treaties amending the Treaty of Rome . |
| 9 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 10 | It is worthy of note at this stage that on Mr t to say that on Mr calculations the figures for multiplier and multiplicand to the cost of total ca er of future care involved an addition to a total sum of one million two hundred and twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty five pounds and twenty eight pence . |
| 11 | We very much hope that on his way there he works out which side of the Government he is on with regard to that amalgamation . |
| 12 | And there was the additional point that on their return they had appeared cheerful , as if from a windfall . |
| 13 | The implication of this , however , is that directors should be the sole arbiters of the appropriateness of their working methods ; the suggestion that ‘ rational shareholders would not have it otherwise … for their welfare is maximised by decisions that yield the highest profits net of the costs of gathering information and making the decision ’ , adds nothing beyond the empirically unsupported assertion that on balance , if left alone , managements will make decisions in the most cost-effective way . |
| 14 | Yet it was a strange and contradictory fact that on those grim days when even the May blossom and the busy life of all the creatures around the Park could not shake off the ever present fact of the bars and cages of the Zoo and the imprisoned animals , Mr Wolski found silent comfort in the presence of the remaining golden eagle . |
| 15 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm sure you know that the Bank of England the Bank of England have made a very strong point that on balance there should be more non-executive directors than executive directors in the company and , er it is felt very strongly that to get a good mix of non-executive directors really does protect the shareholders ' interests and , er I think we 're very much following the lead , er , of the Bank of , of England , erm , in this particular respect . |
| 17 | You know , and then you leave it It 's what they term soft and it 's got to be left to sort of harden you know , and then some instances some people prefer a dull polish , they do n't like a a very bright and they 'll say what they call pumi powdered pumice stone and they put that sprinkle that on , and it 's got to be done a certain way with a brush so to not to leave any marks . |
| 18 | All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals . |
| 19 | It was an ancient custom that on the fourth day of her menstruation , when a woman had taken her ritual bath , her husband was honour-bound to have intercourse with her . |
| 20 | The breed was largely restricted to its light-soiled native area in East Anglia , especially on the poorer , sandy Suffolk lands where it was so well adapted to living on sparse , low-quality grazing that on good pasture it would grow too much and become coarse in the bone . |
| 21 | A Hungarian , Ms Erszebet Varga , who returned from Timisoara on Monday , told Hungarian television that on Sunday pregnant women taking part in the demonstration approached the bayonet wielding soldiers and , pointing to their swollen bellies , demanded that the unborn children be killed immediately as they would only starve to death when they were born . |
| 22 | Its supporters regarded it as a happy augury that on the same day the Soviet Union finally called off its blockade of Berlin . |
| 23 | In Nicholson 's case , the description came with the ever-present prefix that on the occasions he has tried acid , it was used properly to avoid bad trips ; thus , he had ‘ come to terms with things that you perceive would be otherwise impossible — things that help you understand yourself … plus , if used properly , it can means quite a lot of kicks . ’ |
| 24 | There is general agreement that on all key measures there has been an enormous growth not only in the availability but also in the use of the mass media in the developed world over the last few decades . |
| 25 | Does not that show that on the European front we are moving towards not convergence , but divergence ? |
| 26 | In the second century a variant of this theme appeared in the assumption made by writers in the orthodox tradition that on the essentials all Christians rightly believing are agreed : the cacophony of dissension is a characteristic either of heretics or of pagan philosophers . |
| 27 | Erm on paragraph twenty erm the government 's proposals will penalise all the camping which takes place outside recognised sites while at the same time I 've already said , removing any incentive or obligation for local authorities to provide enough sites anyway so i it 's , it 's a a total squeeze that on the one hand the government is restricting the number of pitches and then penalising everybody who has n't got one ! |
| 28 | He argues : ‘ I have little doubt that on average we will see a premium of about a third , but it could take a few weeks to get there . |
| 29 | There is an agreeable story that on arrival the Prince wanted to change money and found an agent who advertised ‘ Here we exchange sovereigns for Napoleons . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It just sums up my recent life that on the day my son announced his engagement and wanted me to meet his new in-laws I was in Strasbourg . |