Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , more important , it is clear that on the most important matter of clerical celibacy , there was no body of support to justify Anselm 's optimism about a rapid victory . |
| 2 | It is clear that on the Conservative side , before defeat in the 1964 General Election , Edward Boyle was attracted to a binary solution and in March of that year put a paper on it to a Cabinet committee . |
| 3 | It is conceivable that on a charge of rape a man might argue that he had in fact meant to perpetrate an act of buggery and that the sexual intercourse that took place was unintended . |
| 4 | Having denied that we may ever legitimately interfere with the liberty of another except on the grounds of self-protection , Mill ( 1910 ) asserts : |
| 5 | The West coast route , however , could not be profitable , with 1960s-vintage equipment which cost more to maintain , and it was less reliable than on the East-coast line . |
| 6 | If there is any amount of bankside vegetation the task is somewhat easier than on an open bank . |
| 7 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped to irregularly hexagonal and broadly contiguous except on the tips of the arms . |
| 8 | State prosecutors on Sept. 24 filed a further seven counts of tax evasion against her , claiming that she had failed to pay taxes amounting to US$205 million on her income for 1985-86 and on the estate left by her late husband . |
| 9 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 10 | Four years later she is symptom free and on a normal diet . |
| 11 | She says : ‘ People think I 'm brave and on the outside I am brave that 's the message I 've put across since Donald 's funeral . |
| 12 | The contradiction was direct and on the whole he believed Andrus to be an honest man . |
| 13 | As chilling of the petiole of leaf 1 inhibited phloem translocation for about 20min , we assayed the effects of chilling the petiole on heat stimulus-induced systemic accumulation of pin activity in leaf 2 and on the systemic electrical signal . |
| 14 | She stumbled away , broken and on the verge of despair . |
| 15 | The roads are terrifyingly steep and on the map look like coils of intestines , which translated into reality become dizzying sets of hairpin bends , too narrow for two vehicles to pass in comfort at any speed . |
| 16 | The tide was high but on the turn , lapping sluggishly against the rocks at the river 's edge . |
| 17 | Vítor Saúde María , who had been Prime Minister from May 1982 until his arrest in March 1984 on conspiracy charges [ see p. 32899 ] , and who was currently mayor of the capital , Bissau , was granted political asylum in Portugal on Nov. 2 while on an official mission . |
| 18 | I suspect that the Opposition are in the same muddle on this as on every other issue — including taxation , over the past three weeks . |
| 19 | For though conflict arises often from the aggressive attitudes of others , it feeds not so much on this as on the learned and unlearned responses of our inner world . |
| 20 | Not so big and showy as on a knitting machine , but there are two metal rods sticking up — enough for any self respecting machine to us as a radio aerial ! |
| 21 | When seen in hospital she was far less depressed than on the first occasion and did not feel she needed further help . |
| 22 | On the other hand , existence is more placid than on the common law side . |
| 23 | He wore his usual air of meticulously contrived casualness , and the shadow of beard round his by no means negligible jaw was a shade more perceptible than on the previous day . |
| 24 | The treaty imposed more onerous obligations on the Scots than on the French , but in the spring of 1334 Philip VI invited David II to seek refuge in France , and Philip now began to step up the diplomatic pressure on Edward 11I . |
| 25 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 26 | The number densities of craters on the maria are far lower than on the highlands , indicating , as outlined in section 3.3.4 , that the maria surfaces are younger . |
| 27 | Here items in short supply are sold at inflated prices — but still generally lower than on the black market . |
| 28 | Second , when the discount houses want to " test the water " for an interest rate cut , they might offer paper ½%; lower than on the previous day at the first opportunity ( that is , at 9.45 a.m. or midday ) . |
| 29 | Ready stiffened and spongeable fabrics especially made for roller blinds can be bought by the metre , and have the additional advantage of being available in widths up to 175cm ( 69in ) , making joins unnecessary except on the widest of windows . |
| 30 | The summary way in which teacher education was disposed of at Barry also contrasts strongly with what happened in North East Wales : here , there was much lobbying to prevent teacher training based on Cartrefle College of Education , now merged into the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , from contracting further ; it is indeed ironical that on the same day , 26 July 1977 , that Gordon Oakes , Minister of State at the DES , declared that Cartrefle should be spared the axe , predominantly on the basis of its geographical location , he should pronounce a death sentence at Barry . |